During the early 70's there was a rash of commercial aircraft hijackings. The following is an experience that I had while working at LAX when working the mid shift (11pm-7am).
LAX tower was notified by LA Center that PSA 902 had been...
Topic 3) Leaving the pattern to early
The beginning of every flight is a mini-test flight. You may think everything is perfect but did you really get through the preflight checklist? I continue to annoy myself by occasionally...
DIARY OF A POMMIE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
August 31
Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new home in Karratha , Western Australia .
Now this is a town that knows how to live!
Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy...
An Alaskan airport has closed an aircraft access route because of a flaw with Apple's Maps app.
Fairbanks International Airport told a local newspaper that in the past three weeks two motorists had driven along the taxiway and across one of...
Interesting flight this evening. Doing a few circuits after being absent from the skies for a month. On my final approach, it looked like a small boulder had been placed on the runway at Moruya airport. As I got closer, the boulder starting...
Download the Air Safety Institute’s Mobile Flight Risk Evaluator to clarify the gray areas of making a go/no-go decision. By taking into account your total flying experience, including recent flight hours, how much experience in a given...
Admin, sorry if I missed a page that is already set up like this but I thought there would be a few good humour stories, jokes, videos etc that members would share around. So I'll start us off with the following "Whinging Pom...