Flight For Truth

Coming February 2020!

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. 

Fiction has to make sense”

Mark Twain

Corruption runs deep within the airline industry when Captain Darby Bradshaw is grounded and forced into a psychiatric evaluation in response to reporting safety concerns to senior leadership at Global Air Lines. What she doesn’t know is that her removal is nothing short of a conspiracy to silence her safety concerns. Privatization of ATC, approval of drone operated commercial aircraft, short-cutting training, and the untimely crash of a Boeing 737 MAX are all tied to Darby’s report. Her resultant research is about to uncover the truth. How high does this go? All the way to the White House. Not even her friends FAA Manager Kathryn Jacobs, DOT Secretary John McAllister, or Psychiatrist Linda Madden, can do anything to help her. 

The question is—can she save herself?

This is the fifth in the Fight For Series where truth is scarier than fiction. Flight For Justice coming soon, where it’s not about truth and justice, but what you can prove in court. 

DEDICATION:

Flight For Truth  is dedicated to all those people who have faced an atrocity due to the abuse of power. Losing control of your life due the unethical decisions of others feels like a passenger in a plane that is going down. But remember one thing—as long as you survive your life is not over, it will just be different. Make that difference count and fight for truth. 

Read the series and get ready 

for what happens next!

The First Novel...

Imagine writing a novel, Flight For Control, with the theme of mental health embedded within the world of aviation. And then two months after your novel is released a Jet Blue captain is locked out of the flight deck by his first officer, after he suffers from a mental breakdown. What if he hadn't been locked out? And then four years later a Germanwings first officer successfully locks the captain out of the fight deck and flies his plane into the mountains. Read more here...

 The Second Novel...

 

Imagine writing a novel and Asiana crashes in San Francisco, and you have a scene that mirrors that event. And then your pilots are flying an A330 to Singapore as a storm builds, they get caught ... and two years later Air Asia takes the same route and flies into that storm but crashes. Fiction that mirrors truth.  Read more here... 

The Third Novel...

Imagine being an author working on your PhD at the same time you are an airline pilot. What if all those worlds merged into one exciting adventure, where truth was scarier than fiction and the lines between your worlds blurred? You would write the novel Flight For Survival.

Read more here...

The Fourth Novel... 

It's insane how airlines are cutting training at the expense of safety. Insanity extends to the FAA, where industry issues of automation dependency, lack of hand flying skills, confusion, and lack of understanding stem back to 1996, yet these issues are more prevalent than ever. Imagine what happens to the person challenging the system...

Read more here...

 All books can be purchased, 
with autographs, on this blog!

And....

Available on Amazon: 

Flight For Control 

and

 Flight For Safety
and
Flight For Survival

and

Flight For Sanity

Amazon Comments are so much appreciated!!! 

Enjoy the Journey!
XO Karlene

Fly For Free

Nothing in life is free. And either is Flying For Free. Pilots can fly for Free but first they must pay for their training, and work for Free. Oh... and sometimes they must pay to fly too.

Is this a smart business concept, 

or Pilot Exploitation?  

I was trying to figure a way to put a business into service to help pilots get their flight hours, and was told this idea was not possible. Perhaps not in the United States. Hello Airline, a Swiss Charter Airline, is doing just this.

I've been told: "Pilots who have a type-rating, but not enough flight hours will pay up to 50,000 euros (approximately $65,000 U.S.) for 500 flying hours as co-pilot." 

For those that do not have a type-rating, I think you can get an A320 rating in the US from $13,000 - $14,000. 

If you look at this from a pilot's perspective, you could pay $100,000 to get enough hours to get your dream job. Should we view this as an expense like college? 

There is a U.S. charter operator doing this too. However, with the FAA change of rules requiring 1500 hours, I wonder how this will change their business plan. 

Obligation to the Passengers

What is the obligation to inform the passengers of these type of operating practices? What expectations do passengers have? For pilots, would you be willing to take a loan and buy your training? 

I would love your thoughts. 

Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene