Just When You Thought it Safe to Go Back in the Sky—Flight for Sanity! Flight for Sanity! Imagine, if you will, a world in which a maverick wildcard wins the presidency. Where airlines race each other to the bottom line, dragging quality, workers, pay—and worst of all, safety—down with them. And, where conscientious pilots face retaliation […]
Safety-A Frightfully Serious Matter . . . THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF “THE PILOT’S PILOT” BOB HOOVER Cap’n Aux shares his thoughts for pilots on the lessons Bob Hoover taught us all . . . Direct Link: https://vimeo.com/capnaux/hoover Both Chuck Yeager and Jimmy Doolittle called Hoover the best stick-and-rudder pilot they’d ever seen. From […]
THE PILOT FACTOR A book by Jean Denis Marcellin “A cockpit needs a Manager. An airplane needs a Leader.”The Pilot Factor We pilots tend to think of ourselves as Type A problem solvers, and have an innate disdain for all that “touchy-feely charm school stuff.” Emotional sensitivity is for sissies—I’m Captain Kirk, dammit! Enter Jean Denis […]