Taking Wing

Over the last week there's been a tremendous outpouring of opinion among pilots regarding the proposed legislation I wrote about in my l...

When I wrote the series of posts on Colgan 3407 back in May, I noted that the new FAA administrator appeared to be receptive to changing cre...

Larry is, in many ways, a very typical specimen of an airline pilot of a certain age. He has been flying for quite a few years, and has the ...

Has it really been a full month since I posted anything to this blog? Whoops. Dawn and I just got back from a two week trip to Norway (with ...

"Captain Renslow and First Officer Shaw did know what to do, had repeatedly demonstrated they knew what to do, but did not do it."...

At 22:16:27.4 EST on February 12th, 2009, the crew of Colgan 3407 experienced a stick shaker activation. They were hardly the first crew to ...

Beep! "Three thousand for two thousand." It was a dark night; the landing lights lit up the thick layer of clouds slipping rapidly...