Flying the Hudson
The response from George Scheer to a question I asked resulted in a mock-irate rant that can be summarized by
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Month: May 2016
Water Ditching: Please Hurry
In preparation for this crazy enterprise, flying a single-engine airplane around the world, Adam, his brother-in-law David, and I flew
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India, your faith is safe from me…
Of the many daunting bureaucratic tasks attending a flight around the world, few have seemed as ridiculously bureaucratic as obtaining
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A checklist by any other name
Perhaps it is too many years of running checklists in airplanes. Perhaps it is my failing memory. These days I
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Around the World: The Long Cross Country
I have been a flight instructor for decades. In the course of training for the basic pilot certificate, the Private
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Around the World Flight Planning: The Fatal Flaw
So, the other day (back in early March) I’m having coffee with my friend Adam, who is planning to fly
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