Behind The Yoke

Thinking about risking it all and flying for a career? Well now is the perfect time to start training and getting your ratings. The aviation industry is dead calm right now but like the stock market it will jump back. Airlines aren’t hiring, no one is traveling and the economy just plain stinks. It’s times [...]

Can’t afford your learjet anymore? Take cover.  Salon News has a great article about a man who’s responsible for stealing back big expensive aircraft from people that aren’t paying the bills . He’s the super repo-man.
“Popovich’s first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he’s going to shoot you will not [...]

Here is cool but unsettling diagram of a commercial airliner showing your chances of survival depending on where you’re sitting during a crash. When I fly commercial I make it my duty to sit in the seats near the emergency exits in the aisle; be one of the first out of the plane and more [...]

Needless to say Oshkosh was incredible. It was my first time going and I was blown away. I couldn’t believe the number of aircraft that were there in one place. It was overwhelming.  I’m not going to write much about it because words can’t express the feelings you experience. Exhilaration is one word that comes [...]

Here is a great post from a guy named Todd Lappin who took a demo ride in first class on the Emirates A380.  Great photos and video.

Watch this short clip with Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes on why we shouldn’t travel. I agree with pretty much everything he says but my excitement came from the fact that it gives more credence to the importance of general aviation and the push to avoid commercial airlines.
Let’s face it - airlines must change the [...]

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project for the aviation blogger community called Wingaroo. Its a new search engine specifically created to search aviation blogs. Here is the introduction I wrote on the ‘about’ page:
Wingaroo was created in 2008 for the aviation community. Wingaroo provides the opportunity to discover hidden [...]

IBM has an insightful feature encouraging airlines to adopt new business models so that the aviation industry can survive in these tough times.
“Airlines and airports face escalating costs, revenue growth constraints and an increasingly dissatisfied customer base. By offering passengers a highly differentiated experience and simultaneously enhancing its operational efficiency, the aviation industry can position [...]

Bruce Dickinson’s main profession is to rock out with his metal band Iron Maiden. Now, after flying a few years with his commercial pilot certificate for Astraeus, he is able to do two jobs at once. When he’s not banging his head on stage he flies his band, gear and entire road crew from venue [...]

There’s been a lot of talk lately on the boards that there is a growing number of people concerned that GA is slowly dying. AV Gas is getting more expensive, training costs are soaring, the government is proposing more and more user fees, the number of new pilots is going down every year, etc.  And [...]