• From the Flight Deck, July 2023 Issue
• From the Flight Deck, June 2023 Issue
The airplane doesn’t know if it’s nighttime or if the weather is bad. Fa·tigue. fuh-teeg – noun Extreme tiredness, typically...
• From the Flight Deck, May 2023 Issue
Super 80 on takeoff. It’s sometimes better to continue rather than abort. Before we begin this month’s story about the decision to...
• April 2023 Issue, From the Flight Deck
• From the Flight Deck, March 2023 Issue
“Minutes of sheer terror, followed by hours of sheer boredom, followed by minutes of sheer terror.” Months of boredom followed by...
• February 2023 Issue, From the Flight Deck
cu·mu·luo-/gran-ite//’kyoomy lo/’gran t/noun pilot slang:mountains obscured by clouds One of many hilarious flying-related Far...
• From the Flight Deck, January 2023 Issue
• December 2022 Issue, From the Flight Deck
You may have noticed that I use a few contractions in my writing. I’d probably use more if I didn’t have a proofreader and editor to...
• From the Flight Deck, November 2022 Issue • One Comment
In the 1980s, USAF UPT (Undergraduate Pilot Training) was old-school: manual systems, old avionics and an all-in-one HSI/RMI. The entry...
• February 2018 Issue, From the Flight Deck
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