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Views From The Left Seat: June 2008

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Sunday, June 15, 2008. Time For A Change. So after 15 years in the left seat of the MD-80, the time has come for a change. My final trip was a 3 day affair with stops in Columbus,. Day one began with a leg to Columbus, back to DFW, and then on to Mexico City. The descent to Columbus took us right over downtown Cincinnati and a very muddy Ohio River. Clear skies prevailed over Columbus also. Well, maybe once in a while.

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Views From The Left Seat: December 2007

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Sunday, December 30, 2007. I Need a Vacation. My alarm went off at 4 AM. For a few brief moments I had no idea where I was or what city I was in. I hate that feeling but it's pretty common among my airline pilot colleagues. It's especially bad when you have that same feeling after being awake for several hours.I haven't quite reached that stage in my life yet! That is one huge airport! Not long after getting home I got a ca...

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Views From The Left Seat: October 2008

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Saturday, October 25, 2008. During our ride in the crew van from our hotel to the airport, the first officer and I were discussing how easy a day this should be. A little rain had kept us confined to our rooms for most of the morning but it was starting to clear up and all appeared to be going well as we arrived at the airport. One of the first things I check on our flight plan is the arrival fuel at our destination. To...

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Views From The Left Seat: Business As Usual In Costa Rica

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Business As Usual In Costa Rica. Back in San Jose, Costa Rica again. This time it would be a non-stop flight back to home base in Texas. A 4.5 hour leg. Our ground personnel at SJO are fantastic. They typically have everyone boarded and bags loaded at least 15 minutes prior to scheduled departure time. I have never seen a delayed departure there. Today was no different. The runway slopes uphill so...

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Views From The Left Seat: Mt Poas, Costa Rica

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Mt Poas, Costa Rica. With all the recent natural disasters in the world making headlines, I'm pretty content to be steering clear of them and enjoying the mostly sunny skies of the Caribbean and Central America. Yes, it was a small earthquake.enough to knock the pictures off my wall and kill the electricity for a couple of hours but no real damage that I heard about. The POAS SID (standard instrum...

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Views From The Left Seat: July 2008

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Saturday, July 12, 2008. Just a short post this time to report on the status of 767 training. Ground school is conducted with just two pilots and an instructor. My partner is a. But so far so good. The first two weeks were devoted to ground school every day with our instructor and then several hours of computer based training at our own. That pace needed to be somewhat rapid since there's a lot to learn. Wind shear, engine ...

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Views From The Left Seat: November 2007

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Monday, November 26, 2007. Fortunately the weather in Texas was decent and there were no delays throughout the day. The turbulence finally ended shortly after we landed! Nearby there was an old 1950's vintage Lockheed Lodestar that I had to check out. It appeared to be almost airworthy. There are very few of those left. Back to DFW and the same turbulence! Three hours worth. We tried changing altitudes from 20,000 ft al...

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Views From The Left Seat: Pass The Peanuts

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Monday, December 28, 2009. Very seldom does a cockpit crewmember have to get involved directly with a passenger in order to settle a particular issue. In all these years at this airline, I can count on one hand the times that I've had to step in and attempt to diffuse a passenger problem. The purser said that the passenger manifest showed no such information and that he was catered with cocktail nuts for the entire first cl...

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Views From The Left Seat: February 2008

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Views From The Left Seat. A Look At The Airline World. Ride Along In The Cockpit. Friday, February 15, 2008. So we awoke back in San Juan to some scattered showers but a nice looking sunrise. We made one last trip to the buffet for a final shipboard breakfast. I hope I don't see another buffet for a long time! I may have possibly gained some weight on this cruise.or else my shirts have shrunk a little. Then it was off to the Bacardi Distillery. After visiting the Malibu Rum. Distillery in Barbados,we wer...