Filled with Blessings!


Enjoy the Journey!
XOX Karlene
Filled with Blessings!


Spreading Christmas Cheer
As a book lover, I was gifted with meeting Marc Fredrick, alias Mr. Whimsy, and a copy of his incredible children's book. Not only is the story delightful but the artwork is spectacular. If you're looking for that special book for the little ones in your life, this is it! A gift of love, of joy and an absolute delight. The best Christmas gift. He's provided the poem so you can read the story, but the illustrations are phenomenal. I'll share just a few year. This is definitely a put on your book shelf!!
JASMINE AND THE SNOWMAN
It’s a snowy, licorice Christmas… the world is black and white.
The zebras, pandas, penguins all fit the scene just right.
The polar bears and Arctic hares all celebrate in white.
The Christmas seal cavorts with zeal in coat as black as night.
What’s happened to the colors, so vivid, warm and bright…
the red, blue, green from which we glean such holiday delight?
It’s somewhat of a mystery that’s caused this color blight
and left us with a Christmas so starkly black and white.
’Twas Christmas seen through the snowman’s eyes which stood out in the cold,
forgotten, ’cept by Jasmine Skies, who’d just turned five years old.
Yes, little Jasmine saw it all… the Snowman set apart.
She felt, as snowflake tears did fall, “This creature needs a heart.”
To Mama’s room she ran right quick; in sewing box dug deep.
She thought, “Now this should do the trick,” and left without a peep.
Then outdoors to the Snowman white she ran with cloth of red.
While to his chest she pressed with might, she also softly said,
“This heart will help you, Snowman. Your eyes of coal will see.
My mama’s sewing basket is magical to me.
It’s filled with love and colors and many things quite rare.
And every time we open it I know that she does care.”
The Snowman seemed to listen. The sun came out to play.
The Snowman’s skin did glisten in a rainbow prism way.
And everything grew brighter. The world just seemed to smile
as Jasmine hugged The Snowman and he hugged her back awhile.
Enjoy the Journey!!
XOX Karlene
FRIDAY FABULOUS FLYER
Liz Booker, is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Commander, helicopter pilot, and foreign diplomat, and a writer who is inspiring the next generation of women in aviation. During her 28-year career, she flew the H65 Dolphin (AS365) helicopter on search and rescue, law enforcement, and humanitarian missions around the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Liz has also served as the U.S. Senior Defense Official to seven Eastern Caribbean Island Nations.
Since retiring, she has built a community of readers and writers around stories featuring women in aviation as Literary Aviatrix on social media, and with the Aviatrix Book Club and Literary Aviatrix website, YouTube Channel, and podcast.

Liz holds her Commercial Fixed and Rotary Single-Engine Land and Sea licenses with tailwheel endorsement, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She continues to fly recreationally, a.k.a. ‘research’.
I grabbed the preceding information from her website. And what an accomplished woman she is. But what I know personally of Liz that her website failed to disclose is that she is energetic, supportive, talented, organized, and a carrying person who has been sharing the love of aviation, reading and writing with others for five years. Well, probably longer than that, but December 2025 is the 5th anniversary of the Literary Aviatrix Community and she is inviting you all to join her in celebration. I should say, join us! She also has a book of her own underway, and we are all looking forward to the publication.
Liz has just announced the lineup of books for the ensuing year's book club (2026) and you can see the list and learn more about her efforts HERE This is where readers, authors, and those who love to engage come together and discuss aviation books. This is such an incredible group of people and the discussion is always fascinating. I now book everything on the last Sunday of the month around this book club. The last Sunday of every month at 10 am Pacific Time. If you would like to join us on December 28, Click Here to join Meeting ID: 874 4978 1521 Passcode: 779609
The book we're reading in December is:

I just began reading Flight of Olivia West last night, and this is the most fun I've had in awhile. I barely started but the writing is strong, characters enjoyable, and the intrigue has captured me. Next writers club is also my little sister's 60th birthday and I have an 11 am tee time with her. But, I'll be on for the first 20 minutes.
Everything else you want to know about Liz and all that she gives to the world of aviation can be found @LiteraryAviatrix
Thank you Liz, for all that you do for female aviators, authors, readers, and those lives you have touched in so many ways. We love you!!!
Jumpstart Your Build
My friends are selling their partially completed Vans RV-7A kit. Located near Seattle, WA is a complete Vans RV-7A slider kit with no laser cut parts, numerous upgrades, and more than 1000 hours of labor put into the construction.
It’s at a point where you could finish the cabin, mate the canopy, stand it up on gear, and then move on to avionics or your engine. It comes with the following:
All plans: (e.g. instructions and engineering drawings) Empennage kit: build complete. Horizontal stabilizer and elevators mated to the fuselage. Vertical stabilizer and rudder need to be attached to the kit.
The electric trim kit has not been installed, and no fiberglass work has been completed, but all of the parts are included. Wing Kit: build complete. Conduit run. The landing (Duckworks) and position lights have not been installed. No fiberglass work has been completed. All the parts are included.
Fuselage Kit: mostly complete. The fuselage kit is at a point where the cabin group needs to be finished, and the wings need to be mated.
Finishing Kit: no work has been done with any of the parts of the finishing kit. Once the cabin group is complete and the wings are mated, removed, and set aside, you’ll be able to install the roll bars and mate the canopy to the fuselage. And then put it on gear.
The engine mount is for an O/IO 360/375.
I asked why they were selling. The owner said, "Although building is deeply satisfying, I have too many competing priorities (e.g. family, work, volunteering, flying and maintaining other airplanes). I don’t need to sell, but I would like this kit to find a home with a builder that can dedicate the time to completing the project, and enjoy the finished product."
I won't part out the kit. Everything will be sold together. I’m also happy to help you load it up, but I expect you to handle shipping or transportation of the kit to your preferred location.
This is a great opportunity for a motivated builder to get a jump start on finishing a Vans RV kit.
And the best part, it's only $35,000
Wrap it Up for Yourelf!
One Step Closer to Winning $1000
When the legal system doesn't hold anyone accountable, someone must take justice into their own hands. The 8th Novel in the Flight For Series is released. Flight For Revenge. And those deserving characters are being disposed of, one by one.
I'm now revealing the truth and what's gone before to help you win $1000. For those who don't know, I wrote novels throughout my ordeal with Delta. They were fiction based on truth, but exposing realities. In those novels I had to include murder, sex and a sinister plot because nobody would believe the truth could actually happen with an airline like Delta. Now, that truth is being exposed. However, I thought Revenge would be the only fully fictionalized novel, but I was wrong. There is too much truth in the pages. Therefore, I am running a contest for one of my lucky readers to win $1000. You don't have to have all the answers, just the have the most correct answers.
WE NEED YOU!
HIMS was a 1974 study to research military pilots with respect to alcohol abuse who would become airline pilots. This HIMS research transitioned into an assistance program. Today, however, this program has shifted from helping pilots to a money-making pilot abuse program that has enabled a medical industry to extort money from airman. Doctors assert airman have a substance abuse disorder, whether they do or not, and then threaten their airline careers if they don’t participate in the program, forcing them to pay exorbitant amounts of money and time to retain their career.

The Pilots for HIMS Reform (P4HR) group is working to end this abuse, but they need your assistance.
If you have fallen victim to HIMS, you are not alone. Pilots for HIMS reform is trying to fix the problems, which are many. But they need to show the current reports of system abuse are not isolated cases.
Current Reports Indicate

There is no FAA oversight. Instead, the FAA has abdicated their accountability to HIMS AMEs.
To put this into perspective, the once leading HIMS AME doctor, Dr. David B. Altman, who testified in a court of law that he conducted more pilot evaluations than any other doctor, forfeited his medical license to avoid prosecution. Altman had accepted $74,000 from Delta Air Lines in exchange for providing a false diagnosis against me. Three years of my effort but one dirty doctor was gone.
HIMS AME Dr. Chien, stated, “Doctors can be bought” and “This is a dirty business.” Chien also told me he was an anesthesiologist and quit to become a HIMS AME because he could make more money. Dr. Alan Kozarsky is a trained ophthalmologist who is acting as a HIMS AME for Delta. Faulkner, is managing his own emotions with long-term anti-depressant use.

Unfortunately, airlines and unions use the HIMS program to control pilots while bastardizing the HIMS process. Any doctor can become an HIMS AME without any additional training. Dr. Faulkner testified in court that all they must do is attend a four-day conference. Well, at least that’s what he did. Yes, alcohol is involved at these seminars. Not for research but for consumption by the doctors at the end of the day.
Airline management sets arbitrary standards such as random thresholds for PEth or ETG testing. Airlines also require far greater monitoring than required by regulatory standards, and they force pilots to sign contracts, that are not required by the FAA. Where is the union? They are participating in this fraud.
When a pilot enters an airline’s HIMS program, the airline controls the pilot with the threat of medical certificate revocation, something they should have no control over. The HIMS contracts restrict the pilot’s ability to use sick leave, and the company threatens pilots when they call in fatigue, write up maintenance, etc. Airline management uses this program for control.
Airline management also uses the “HIMS contract” to terminate pilots who are not “compliant” with that contract, of which is outside the Pilot Working Agreement (PWA). Compliant can be subjective. One pilot faced consequences that he was not "working a good program" despite evidence that he never drank. Pilots have no job protection under the HIMS program despite what the union touts, and instead they expose themselves to arbitrary termination.
An entire industry is profiting from HIMS. Psychiatrist, rehabilitation centers, group therapy providers, and individual medical providers are all profiting by forcing pilots to jump through ambiguous hoops. Some of those pilots don’t even have a “substance use disorder” but are coerced into the program for other reasons than drinking. Many are forced by their union. Why? The union profits from this program too. While airlines reimburse some pilots for their medical expenses, there is no recouping the extensive time lost in their lives. I know of two pilots who quit the job because the program itself. One said it would have cost him his marriage. The HIMS program is a non-paid full-time job.
The linchpin in all this is the AME who is forcing pilots into psychiatric referrals. While the FAA does not use medical standards for the HIMS program, the AME and psychiatrists at the rehabilitation centers write insurance codes requiring proper medical standards. There exists a huge medical disconnect.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you, or anyone you know, was pressured into attending MARR (Maine Association Recovery Residences) or any other addiction recovery center, or if your AME has taken liberties with undue and arbitrary requirements, high expenses, or in any other manner harmed you, you can help by sharing your details.
Examples of the information requested:
All Documents you can share, such as letters, emails, notes, even invoices will be much appreciated. You will remain anonymous, unless you're mad enough to share your story. We understand those still employed, need anonymity. Do not believe that your story is unique and they will figure out who you are, too many, too much of the same, will protect you. This is simply data collection to prove the numbers.
Email everything to: P4HR@pilotsforhimsreform.org
Please forward to anyone impacted.
— Pilots for HIMS Reform
Together we fly — and we reform.
This week Dylan Phillips reached out asking for help. His school, South Kitsap High School, is in the finals of the T-Mobile competition! They won the first two prizes and now we can help them win the big prize of a $1,000,000 dollar stadium makeover and an all expense paid trip for selected school representatives to the 2025 SEC Championship game!
All you need to do is Scan the Link below or go to the website HERE and enter your email and click vote. I voted on the scan. My husband at the website. Both worked great. And, you can vote each day.
Dylan said, "Our school has put their blood sweat and tears into this competition getting us to were we are now. We all have put so much effort in because this money would make a huge impact. We have youth soccer teams, youth football teams, youth cheer teams, and all of our high school teams using this stadium. This infusion of funds would help the community in so many ways."
The current stadium has no cover. The impact of that in the middle of winter in Washington State with parents, families, friends, and fans of band, cheer, dance and football as well as all other sports, suffer in the rain. Let's help make dreams come through.
Vote HERE Daily!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Winner Announced!
FOR YOU TO WIN THE CAR!
THIS is a Classic. And I will draw one lucky winner!!!Revenge is Complete, and Coming Soon!
All the novels that have gone before were based on truth, with real accidents, real events, and real people whose names were changed to protect my job. There was more truth than fiction in all of them. I had anticipated that Flight For Revenge would be the only book that would be 100% non-fiction.
I was wrong!
SPOILER ALERT: Only one of the bodies in this novel was at the pointy end of a knife. I call him shark bate. The others' demise were all far more creative. Death, torture, and gaslighting. Psychological torture as well as physical. I suspect a few of the characters might have wished for death instead of what they experienced. Who thinks this stuff up? Oh. Wait. I did!

Dear Karlene,Here are just a few things that have me highly concerned about going to work these days. These things are leading me to believe Delta is headed for a major accident. I’m not sure if this happening at other airlines but I feel the industry is headed in the wrong direction. I am not sure what to do. Any suggestions? Anything reported to Delta is all for the public and FAA show and is total hypocrisy.Abysmal E-QRH roll out. Trained via QCQ last fall. Delayed because daddy D crashed the server putting their hands on it. Memory items change with little notice.MCC in ATL is ignoring maintenance messages sent from the onboard aircraft reporting systems. Writing up a discrepancy under an improper MEL to keep the aircraft on time.MCC giving out MELs before troubleshooting.MCC have improper understanding of a malfunctioning aircraft system and therefore testing it improperly which leads to a cannot duplicate problem (eg. improperly checking a pressure regulating bleed valve with the APU…here’s a hint…you can’t properly check operation without running and engine.)There is an incentive program for MCC in at least ATL that pays more for on-time departures. This has been verified with a former person from Tech Ops.ATC:Lying about weather and rides (eg. IAH lying about the ride through moderate and extreme precipitation calling it smooth then changing it to occasional moderate turbulence once you’re in it) it caused one of our aircraft to be hit by lightning.
Dispatch playing games with fuel and weather. (Eg. I have heard stories of them trying to bargaining fuel with the PIC on international flights…trying to give them 500LBS of fuel when they requested more.STRESSFailing to comply with paying people for overtime properly and then initially denying the claim. Verified from the Union.(It’s wage theft) And causes too much stress.Crew tracking editing times to make people legal for duty…(eg. changing or not changing estimates in times for legal FAA rest).Thanks for listening,A concerned Delta Captain.