

Stressed. Fractured.
When my phone beeped at me with an incoming text message, I saw it was a friend from work, and I smiled. He was another instructor and...


2020: A Pilot's view
It has been a while since I wrote my last blog, and if certain memes are to believed, it’s because 2020 has been about 97 months long so...


Beginnings, and Endings.
Things that I consider somewhat normal might scare the daylights out of others. Stepping into the cockpit of a half-million pound...


Inside the pilot's brain. (Why that's not a bad thing!)
In my previous blog I talked about the desire some airplane designers and manufacturers have to create planes that don’t need pilots....


Flying without pilots. Our future?
Aviation has a long history running through my family. My dad told me stories of sitting by the radio as a teenager listening to reports...


Flying to the darkness
Way (way) back in February 1979, I was a senior in an Oregon high school, as well as the president of the school’s astronomy club. It was...


How can I circle the globe if the world is flat?
In my seemingly never-ending quest to find out why people believe in things like a flat earth, or chemtrails, or zombies, I keep hearing...


United 3411 and the death of expert opinion
The past few days have seen the social media world explode with rage toward United Airlines for its handling of a bad situation when it...

Pseudoscience and aviation. Or, how to get an airline pilot to pull their hair out.
As we all get older, it’s a given that we gather life experiences. Some people, myself included, have been through a few different...


Memory flight
Memories come in all flavors. From good to bad, and even the downright terrifying. But for me, as with most people, it’s the great ones...