What Characteristics Make a Pilot? When you think of a pilot, all the cliché images that flash across your brain do have some basis for truth; the suave, smiling pilot with twinkling eyes behind a...
The Ins and Outs of Dealing With an FAA Ramp Check Your pilot license or an entire career can potentially be on the line during an FAA ramp check. What you say and do is important, but for the...
The Right Pilot Seat for You Among the questions I have asked pilots while helping them find employment is why do you want to work for the major airlines? Of all the questions, this one catches pilots...
The Art of Being a Pilot Goes Beyond Just Flying Airplanes My knees buckled as the words settled into my reality “you’re hired!” After eight years of air ambulance, corporate and on-demand...
Speaking to God in the Tower: Air Traffic Control Learning how to talk to God is just one of the daunting tasks that new flight students fear when they first pick up the microphone. Learning how to...
The Humble Arrogant Pilot Pilots are arrogant, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Confidence is what you feel inside while arrogance is what others interpret you to have. The fearlessness...
The Path of Becoming a Pilot I can look back at it all now and laugh because I made it to the captain’s seat of a commercial airliner, but the things pilots do to get to that seat is astounding. Most...