Globe with the words Around the Pattern cured around the top half.

Ramblings about flying for fun and profit


simulator flying

  • Flight Training – Part III

    Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. Time got away from me when I came home on a Thanksgiving break. It’s amazing all the things that can pile up when you leave for five weeks. Let’s see, when I left off last I was in the Full Flight (Simulator) phase of training and […]

  • Flight Training – Part II

    Another week has passed in the company’s effort to make an A-330 pilot out of me. I have now completed the Procedures Phase of training and have entered the Full Flight Phase. There were some changes to my class this week too. I was scheduled to complete this course in a class with two other […]

  • Recurrent Training – Part 1

    I took this photo on the last leg of my second trip in March and thought you might like it. A 747-400 painted in the Delta livery went by us somewhere between Edmonton and Winnipeg on the way back from Japan. I believe we were at FL370 and they were at FL350. My 2009 recurrent […]