by Matt | Feb 3, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Lessons
I just saw the following story: Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash. According to the article, if they got their story straight, his plane was on fire when, based on ATC recordings, he stated his intentions to turn back just before crashing. Unfortunately, it...
by Matt | Jan 30, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Videos
When I was a kid, my grandmother used to take me to the airport to watch planes and to airshows. A consequence of this was that I got pretty good at identifying aircraft. This was before September 11th, 2001, so airports were much more accessible than they are today....
by Matt | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog, Videos
Did you ever have a model train set? I had a couple, but my brother and I always enjoyed trying to get the trains to fly off the tracks more than we enjoyed building. Still, I can appreciate the work that goes in to creating detailed dioramas. Sometimes people put in...
by Matt | Jan 18, 2012 | Blog
It’s that time of year, where I take a look back and decide what worked and what didn’t and I usually set some goals. This year isn’t going to be any different, but I’ve decided some changes are in order. On the whole, 2011 was an off-year. I...
by Matt | Jan 16, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Videos
I know it’s been a while since I last posted since I took a bit of a winter break for the holidays. I did a lot of strategic thinking, which I will discuss in another post. For now, I want to share the first Movie Monday post of the new year. This video, which...
by Matt | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog, Fun Flying, Videos
If you live in the US, I hope you had a nice holiday last week, if not, I hope you had a nice week. We hosted the family for Thanksgiving, so I spent the week preparing for that. It was a nice get together, but I opted not to write last week in order to prepare....
