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A little Type I required Had to take off my mittens to snap this pic of our iceberg jet. Burrr.

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Starting a 2 stop commute from the one taxicab town of Lebanon, NH. The TSA out numbered the revenue passengers for our 19 seater. Only 4 pax but even so the airline extracted my roll-aboard bag making me check it thru, strictly enforcing the 1 carry on + 1 personal item rule. Gate Agent in [...]

Cutting it close. The wind blew dry dust at first. Tornado sirens alerted and we witnessed horizontal sheets of rain and hail arrive. Pea sized hail pelted a Ramper on his tractor tug and a brand new Lear in tow which hustled for dry hangar safety. They didn’t make it. New ice the size of [...]

[photopress:fast_flyer.jpg,full,alignleft] B.O.U.R.Girl is a fast woman — faster than most! Mach .92 in a screaming Citation X and with record speed to Des Moines, she’s helping to transport Special Olympians to their 2006 event. It’s as close as you can get to the sound barrier in a civilian aircraft. She “forgot” her wedding band when [...]

While waiting for my day job to begin I’ve found a new project / time sponge. Most of my flight logs (circa 1975-1988) are pen and ink ledger books. So, now is a good time to update the media and bring the old archives into the new millennium. Using mouse, keyboard, and Excel spreadsheet to [...]

After fifteen training days, without time off, I can literally powernap and see dials, charted data and performance minutia on the backside of my eyelids. Finally, a 2 hour verbal and then a 4 hour checkride culminates in a (successful) test of ability. An HS-125 type rating has been added to my air transport pilot [...]

Jornal de Negócios Online :: Empresas – English News The Portuguese State will buy FLYi Inc Lisbon – A source from the department of transports said that the Portuguese state is very interested in buyFLYi Inc. The state company TAP -Transportes Aéreos Portugues could launch a takeover to FLYi Inc. This plan of the takeover [...]