• New Years in Wichita

    It was a busy day of flying – five legs total eventually terminating in Wichita, Kansas around 8:00pm. Nicole was in the back coming to Wichita to welcome the new year with me. I did a small amount of research trying to figure out where we might go for dinner or to grab a couple…

  • Meanwhile in the midwest . . .

    I woke up in Dayton to disgusting cold weather and rain. I braved it all just to get a breakfast at McDonalds. Dayton was everything I remembered it to be — sad looking buildings and all. When we reported to the airport, it would seem that Dayton was having the best weather in the entire…

  • Ah, the Stress of Holiday Travel

    We find our heroes in Michigan’s upper peninsula. After a significant delay due to low visibility, we finally acquired the aircraft, flew it to Detroit, turned around, and did an approach to minimums in Escanaba, Michigan. The following morning, we all woke up at 5am in an attempt to take the first flight to Detroit…

  • Up North In Da U.P.!

     After yet another approach down to minimums due to fog, we landed late at night in Marquette, Michigan. Perhaps the passengers sensed just how close we had come to aborting because more than one person said, “Thanks for landing!” on their way off the plane. Our shuttle driver to the hotel was a colorful local…

  • Don’t Be Hatin’, Dayton

    My flight into Dayton was the closest I’ve come to having to execute a missed approach (abort a landing to non-pilots). Throughout the flight, the weather continued to deteriorate to 300 ft overcast and fog started consuming the airport. As we started our approach, the tower called and said, “Skywest 4691, I cannot see the…

  • Nort’ Dakota

    Now I can check North Dakota off from the list of states I have never been to. The only remaining states on my list are Oregon, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Arkansas. Exciting! I had four legs today and each of them required an instrument approach to land. Our second leg from Minneapolis to Brainerd is…

  • I’m Going to Wichita!

    You know . . . like the song from the White Stripes? No? Ok… As far as I can remember, I had never been to Kansas before. I have come close on a few occasions — most recently about 9 years ago when I drove my car from Wisconsin to California. I almost clipped the…

  • Mad Town

    Over a month ago, I had flown a route from O’Hare to Madison and back when the temperature was an unusual 70 degrees. That was the only time in perhaps 15 years that I had been to Wisconsin’s capitol city. However, a friend of mine was getting married and after working six days straight, I…

  • No Cavities

    I found myself once again in the Sunshine state, but not as a result of actually flying the plane myself. No, that distinction goes to exotic places like Bemidji, Minnesota. In Florida, I was ensuring that I could make it to a dentist appointment that had been scheduled many months earlier. Some say this is…

  • South Bending

    I have been doing a lot of flying in and out of Detroit as of late, but have not been overnight there. I have had some pretty interesting instrument approaches there, however. Today it was freezing fog in Detroit with a visibility at one point of just 1/16th of a mile. Over the radio, we…

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