This isn’t a “woe-is-me” post or a “look what I’m having for dinner” post. When I started this account almost a decade ago my intent was to never post selfies (because this account isn’t about me but about this profession we all love so much) or to brag about how glamorous this…

2:30 am in #Chongqing and we’re doing the pre-flight for our quick one hour and forty minute trek down the Yangtze River to Shanghai. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve done this or how long or short the sector may be, the attention to detail and thoroughness required is…

A quick 3 hours and 37 minutes flight time over to #Chongqing from Seoul was extended by an extra 15 or so minutes courtesy of my first go-around of 2024. We were established on finals for the ILS 03 at ZUCK and I did notice that a bank of low clouds seemed to be obscuring the…

Spring is most definitely in the air!! While we waited for our route clearance from Air Traffic Control and with a short lull in the pre-departure sequence of events I turned around and saw one of my old #B767 jets parked right I used to park when flying the Amazon flights. Such…

We took off from Portland to the west just as the sun was setting, in fact as we climbed to altitude the sun made one last appearance effectively rising in the west only to set again once we reached our initial cruise level. Once in the cruise we flew in #twilight for the first 5…

11 hours and 37 minutes this evening from #Portland to #Incheon #SouthKorea on N451PA and the weather could not be any better. We’re going to be chasing the sunset for the first few hours as we climb to altitude & fly west and with the clear weather around that is sure to be a…

I’m willing to put money on the fact that this is likely the best fifty-five minutes and thirty seconds you’ll spend online this week. The level of intricacy and detail on this masterpiece of a video is astounding. Trust-you-me.

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#SR71 #Skunkworks …

He is risen! Happy #Easter everyone!! #Easter 2024

See the thing with these ultra efficient wings of today is that they just want to keep on flying which is precisely why you must keep your crosswind correction in throughout the landing (and takeoff) maneuver lest you scrape an engine on the runway. The #B747 -8 is particularly…

March is a very busy time of year as I complete yet another proficiency check warmup, the dreaded yearly simulator checkride along with all the emergency equipment training, aircraft equipment hands-on refresher course, crew resource management classes and one of two required…

But did he meow on guard? #aviation #airlinepilot #pilot #pilot s bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…

Air traffic control is there to help and facilitate but they work for you, not the other way around. Never forget that.
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Remember when we were all made to go to work looking like bank robbers? Good times…. 🙄 #airlinepilot #pilot #aviation #pilot s

Sounds about right with these F#£%€r$… Everything is a near disaster according to these clowns. I wonder what else they could’ve possibly been lying about…. #aviation #MainstreamMedia

Just like back in the days when we were all getting our PPLs and we had to fly steep turns to demonstrate proper aircraft control, instrument scan and power management this very maneuver is flown today to demonstrate the same albeit in a multi-million dollar 6-axis full-motion…

The #UnitedStates and the #MiddleEast are well represented with Atlas Air Worldwide and our #B747 and Emirates & Qatar Airways with their #B777 on the freight ramp at Aeropuerto Internacional de Quito. Thousands of tons of fresh flowers are exported every year out of this very ramp to destinations all…

The VOR to runway 22 left at John F. Kennedy Airport is often used in conjunction with the ILS to runway 22 right. The interesting thing about these two approaches being used simultaneously is that due to the close parallel proximity of the two runways the final segments of each approach are…

#Hanoi vibes tonight.. 🇻🇳 #QueenOfTheSkies #B747 #Vietnam #airlinepilot #pilot #pilot s #flightdeck

Doesn’t just happen to Boeing jets you know… Everyone is hyper sensitive and primed to react to every Boeing related mishap. It’s very amusing to see your average non-player character, self designated for the day “ #aviation expert” weigh in on the potential reason for A or B,…

There will only ever be one #QueenOfTheSkies . Just one. #B747 #aviation