I reported for a duty last week, clean shaven, my skin was smoother than the leading edge of an F22 Raptor. It was also raw and the cold weather wasn’t helping it. Nonetheless I pride myself on turning up to work prepared to, at the very least, look the part. The captain I was flying with had a different approach entirely. He was not using … Continue reading Mask On
Did someone say take a pilot out of the flight-deck or did I imagine that? Airbus and EASA are reviewing, in a serious way, a provision to allow crewing to be reduced to single pilot during certain cruise phases of flight. Sure why not? Relegating pilot importance is not new, it has been tested in many forms and will consistently rear its ugly head, but … Continue reading THE FUTURE IS HUMAN
Fail better is what they say and in some sense that’s the story of my life, kind of. Sometimes I just fail and fail, and fail; but it’s mostly other peoples fault so I try not to blame myself. Despite some mistakes I, like most pilots, prefer to think of myself as a peak performer. I would almost say I’m special, but I don’t want … Continue reading Fail to Prepare…
The Long-Haul Journal of Logan Jacob 