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For all of you who are as aeronautically or linguistically challenged as me, a “stage check” has nothing to do with guitarists checking their gear or volume level on stage, or dress rehearsals at a theater. It’s a check during …

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Fortunately, our mom was not a helicopter mom. My brother became a helicopter pilot anyway, so I’m not sure if the correlation hinted at by Jason is actually works that way. I’m very much a fan of letting my kids …

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When I was a young buck taking my first couple of flight lessons here in the States, I also had a young brand-new flight instructor. I was pretty much her first student for a stuck-wing private pilot rating. One day …

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Life is full of little challenges. Right now, I’m challenged by the task of writing something here that doesn’t give away the punchline. Because when we post this on various social media channels, it will pick the first couple of …

Hitting the books Read More »

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