Tag "advocacy"

April 14, 2013

Aviation Under Attack

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Aviation Under Attack I try to shy away from negative subjects in my attempts to promote aviation, but most readers of this blog are “big-boys and girls” and can handle a healthy dose of reality from time to time. The aviation news outlets…

March 16, 2013

A Career Aviator is Celebrated!

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! It is rare that I recycle stories in the blog, but I wanted to share this great little piece written by Kelly Yamanouchi of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Especially with the ‘iffy’ press airline pilots have gotten after the movie Flight starting Denzel Washington….

March 1, 2013

Taking Flight

“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things…” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

February 26, 2013

Does flying lack value?

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Does flying lack value? In talking to a pilot friend I hadn’t seen in a while, the topic of flying came up, of course. He mentioned he wasn’t flying and wanted to buy an airplane, but didn’t want anything he could afford. His tastes…

February 24, 2013

How To Be a Pilot ebook: Update #1

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! How To Be a Pilot ebook: update #1 I’m still cranking away at the ebook on how to be a pilot. It has been fun so far. Because it’s an ebook there’s an immense amount of flexibility, which really allows you to be…

February 18, 2013

How to be a pilot ebook project

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Last week I decided that a free ebook on how to be a pilot was something I wanted to tackle. I realized that we often lament on the many barriers to becoming a pilot, but we ignore one of the most fundamental challenges…

February 10, 2013

Flying careers are a fickle mistress

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Flying careers are a fickle mistress Two pro pilots meet for the first time and inevitably they will quiz each other on how they came to be in their current role. It’s fascinating that it would even be worthy of discussion and yet…

February 5, 2013

We have it good in the U.S.

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! We have it good in the U.S. Sometimes we as Americans need a dose of reality. Lately there has been an over abundance of negative articles about the decline of general aviation, even on this site. I think we need to take stock…

January 15, 2013

Security Theatre

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today!   Security Theatre On the heels of glider pilot Robin Fleming being wrongfully incarcerated in South Carolina, I felt compelled to say a few things about the state of security in the US. Here we have a 70-year-old glider pilot who was such…