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    • Last Bush Pilots – Excerpt
    • Code Name: Dodger
      • Code Name: Dodger – Excerpt
      • Cartel Kidnapping—Excerpt
      • Jihadi Hijacking—Excerpt
      • Yakuza Dynasty—Excerpt
    • There I Wuz! Vols 1-4
      • There I Wuz! Excerpt
      • There I Wuz! Volume 2—Excerpt
      • There I Wuz! Volume 3—Excerpt
      • There I Wuz! Volume 4—Excerpt
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      • The Last Bush Pilots—Audiobook Excerpt
      • There I Wuz!—Audiobook Excerpt
      • Code Name: Dodger—Audiobook Excerpt
      • Jihadi Hijacking—Audiobook Excerpt
      • The Last Bush Pilots—Audio Extras
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A Passage to Sydney

A Passage to Sydney

  • November 27, 2023
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  • 777, avgeek, aviation, captain, cockpit, ETOPS, flight deck, pilot

A Passage to Sydney. How do pilots go about crossing two hemispheres to fly “Down Under?” Cap’n Aux explains!

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Changing Bases

Changing Bases

  • June 10, 2023
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  • 777, airline, aviation, career, cockpit, flight deck

Pilots often live and work in different cities, states or even countries. They can also move their work “base” as well. Cap’n Aux explains!

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Happy Airline Christmas

Happy Airline Christmas!

  • December 23, 2022
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  • 777, airline, aviaiton, Boeing, Christmas, flight deck

Happy Airline Christmas! A few fun yuletide ditties to warm up your Christmas stockings, from Cap’n Aux to you!

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aNATomy of a NAT Flight

aNATomy of a NAT Flight

  • August 20, 2022
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  • 777, airline, aviation, Boeing, NAT, national aviation day, pilot, transoceanic

aNATomy of a NAT Flight. Cap’n Aux explores how Pilots Fly the North Atlantic Organized Track System (NAT-OTS), known as NAT tracks.

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A Passage to India Part 1

A Passage to India Part 1

  • June 9, 2022
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  • 777, airline, avgeek, aviation, Boeing, Boeing 777, captain, cockpit, flight deck, pilot

Cap’n Aux takes us along with him in his 777 cockpit, on one of the world’s longest flights: JFK-DEL!

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Hemisphere Adventures

Hemisphere Adventures!

  • January 20, 2022
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  • 777, adventure, adventure travel, blog buddies, Boeing, Boeing 777, cockpit, flight deck, St. Elmo's Fire

Hemisphere Adventures! In this post, Cap’n Aux returns to the roots of this blog: Globetrotting Adventures! This time, in his Boeing 777!

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Eric Auxier

Airline pilot by day—Writer by night—Kid by choice!

WELCOME ABOARD!
I'm a Boeing 777 captain for a major US airline. I may have over 24,000 hours in the cockpit, but I am still madly in love with flying!
Through this blog, I share with you the magic, the joy, and the travails that is the airline pilot career. Life's an adventure—life in the sky, exponentially so!

CHECK OUT MY BOOKS!
(Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases via book links below).
THE LAST BUSH PILOTS
An Amazon Top 100 Breakthrough Novel!

PREVIEW
THERE I WUZ!
Adventures From 3 Decades in the Sky

Volumes 1-4!

(Volumes can be read in any order.)
Check out the Full Series!
PREVIEW

CODE NAME: DODGER
FLY/SPY thriller series!
"1 OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ! Absolutely in the same league as Harry Potter!"—Online Book Club (Missions can be read in any order.)
Check out the Full Series!
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Book Excerpts

  • Cartel Kidnapping—Excerpt
  • Code Name: Dodger – Excerpt
  • Jihadi Hijacking—Excerpt
  • Last Bush Pilots – Excerpt
  • There I Wuz! Excerpt
  • There I Wuz! Volume 2—Excerpt
  • There I Wuz! Volume 3—Excerpt
  • Yakuza Dynasty—Excerpt
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  • A Passage to Tokyo
  • Aviation Incidents in Today’s News!
  • Quora Question Quorner Update!
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