“This is so friggin’ cool,” Tom said as he flew through low clouds, mist and rain over the Eastern Shore of Maryland with me this morning. I have to agree with him — it was very cool to see the rain on the windscreen and hear it pelt the wings, to cruise through the clouds [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2010’
The slow, subtle death of a critical system.
Yesterday afternoon I sat at my desk using Microsoft Flight Simulator, attempting to generate an image of the instrument panel of a single-engine airplane in flight, after it had suffered the failure of its vacuum pump. I needed this image for a training module I’m developing. The timing of this project could not have been [...]
Why do I fly? It’s simply, complicated.
Haven’t you ever stopped to ask yourself, why do you do what you do? If you’re a doctor, why do you seek to cure the sick? If you’re a lawyer, why do you seek to defend the innocent and punish the guilty? If you’re a pilot, why do you fly? Why did I pack my [...]
He at least could have told me the score…
As I flew north up the east shore of the Hudson River at around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, the Newark Tower controller advised me that I’d have to steer about a mile to the west, over Teterboro Airport, to avoid a temporary flight restriction over Yankee Stadium. Apparently the Bombers were playing an afternoon home [...]