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Trip Notes

May 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

I’ve been on an airline trip forever. Well, not really, but it sure seems like it. There hasn’t been very much to report about the trip. The second leg started in the rain, but the rest of that leg was glass smooth. We have had a little turbulence on some legs, but our outstanding meteorology [...]

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Tags: Non-Aviation · Professional Flying

DNIB

April 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I haven’t posted in a while and don’t plan to have a ‘regular’ post up for a few more days. I have been trying to stay off the internet  for a few days while I prepare for my airline’s annual recurrent training. My session at the training center begins this Monday (April 13th) and concludes, [...]

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Tags: Non-Aviation

DNIF

April 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The military seems to have an acronym for everything. If you went to the doctor, better known to military pilots as the flight surgeon, and the doctor said that you were not  in a physical condition suitable for flying you were then placed on DNIF status or Duty Not Including Flying. In the military if [...]

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Tags: Military Flying · Non-Aviation