This year it will be 55 years since my "first solo" and in all those years I have never read a more informative piece of writing which beautifully describes what happens on the flight deck in terms that both a pilot and a layman will find engaging and delightful.
Thank you for the link and thank you to the writer, BA First Officer Mark van Hoenacker and New York Times for publishing it.
wow, such a light "aircraft" could easily be blown off course if it encounters a cross. Maybe it only initiates the trip when it has a direct tail wind?
African or European???
Say again!
Last I checked New England is somewhere in North America quite some distance from Europe and South America is also quite far from Africa!
Maybe you should buy an atlas or else use Google Maps now that you are on a computer with Internet access.
Hi Frank, so taken.
My reason for writing such a long missive was simply because "over and out" is being use so often that most people, who are not trained in radio comms, have to come to believe it to be a correct phrase. We also have many people here on this site who are genuinely interested in aviation but with little or no training, so at times I go overboard in explaining things. Perhaps also because I have the time as a retiree to do so.
Cheers from Down Under,
Ole
