Flying Opportunities Await!

Riggin Flight Service

"Riggin Flight Service in Madison, South Dakota provides an in house DPE, mechanic, and off-site housing for their flight students. Riggin is looking for some new student pilots interested in becoming flight instructors. They provide loans to finance the flight training that don’t need to be repaid until the student’s training and flight instruction at Riggin is finished." 

For additional info contact 

Morris Riggin at

Riggin-Flight-Service@hotmail.com. 

Enjoy the Journey!
XO Karlene

Thoughts of a Sailor

Where the Sky meets the Sea.... 

I was recently discussing the issue of automation, the pilot shortage, regulatory bodies and the airline industry with Captain Jim Wright. My favorite seafaring captain who addresses similar issues with automation challenges in his world, that we have in the sky.

He is one of the most prolific writers, and his journeys, stories, and memory never cease to amaze me. He sent me an email to introduce a paper he wrote, and the email was so interesting that I will post that before his paper. But then he sent another email after our discussion. Thus, I'm posting these thoughts for you to contemplate... 

"Your comments on automation, the FAA and pilot shortage likely have some basis. Your effort to “keep the ship on an even keel” may end up taking you beyond “the call of duty”. By chance, a devotional guide that has accompanied me on many seafaring adventures included the following quote for today by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (the German pastor, theologian, spy and, anti-Nazi dissident), in his “Letters and Papers from Prison”:

“Duty is Never Enough - When men (and women) are confined to limits of duty, they never risk a daring deed on their own responsibility, which is the only way to score a bull’s eye against evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end be forced to give the devil his due”. 

To keep things in a proper perspective, Bonhoeffer lived at a time when the Axis forces deprived people of their humanity. Automation dependency simply dilutes peoples’ ability to think. Two quite different things."

Don't be confined...

Exceed your expectations!

Enjoy the Journey!
XO Karlene

Eastern Airlines and

History...

EAL Radio Show

Episode 368

June 4, 2018

Todays Show starts with Breaking news about Delta flying to India, MH 370 search being cancelled, and more... Then we'll step back in time to D-day! A show you won't want to miss. 

The broadcast is at 7:00 pm EDT. 
Call in at: 213-816-1611

www.blogtalkradio.com/capteddie 

or www.ealradioshow.com 

See you at the Gate!

Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene 

Flying Job For NASA

It's not Rocket Science...

But it is a GREAT Opportunity.

Friday's Fabulous Flyer 

could be you!

The person in charge of NASA Aircraft Operations at the Johnson Space Center is looking for two pilots! Their primary job is supporting the astronaut office with aircraft and training, but they also fly other aircraft in support of other NASA missions.

They are looking to hire two contractor pilots.

Requirements: 

Must have a minimum of 1,500 hours of pilot-in-command or first pilot flight time in high-performance, ejection seat equipped, jet aircraft time, which includes at least 500 hours of jet aircraft having at least 3,000 pounds of thrust per engine is required. These aircraft must be aerobatic and capable of at least 6 G’s.

Link to the pilot position 

to learn more 

"Click HERE"

Link to the Aircraft Operations web page:

Click Here

Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene

When An Accident Happens

Do Airlines and Authorities 

Attempt to cover-up their own failures?

The below information was sent from pilot who is passionate about aviation and interested in the history of accidents and the opportunity of lessons learned. They say history repeats... but it doesn't have to if we learn. To prevent any adverse action by sharing this author's name, we shall call him Paul H. In memory of a good friend and great aviator. (RIP) 

Today... in loving memory of lives lost, there is someone who has never forgotten and will keep searching for justice...

"Whilst on vacation I have taken time out to visit the sites of three very significant aircraft accidents.

Airship R101 just outside Beauvais in France in October 1930. Myself and another Captain were exploring the area and decided to visit the site. We had great difficulty finding it. In our best attempts at French we got no further. Two days later and time to drive back to the Ferry Port, out of the corner of my eye I spotted a big monument. I reversed the car back down the side of Highway and there it was! When I got out of the car I noticed a Wreath of Flowers and a little note attached, from the Beauvais Historical Society. 

Written on it, in English, was... 

'There are some of us who are old enough to remember. 
Rest in Peace'. 

The date was 5 October 2000. 

We had spent the 3rd and 4th October trying to find it without success. Instead we found it on the 5th October...the 70th Anniversary of the accident. That has always left me wondering...

Turkish Airlines 901

The second site is of Turkish Airlines 901 in March 1974 at Ermenonville Forest, just outside Paris. It was particularly poignant given that I visited within a few days of the 40th anniversary of the accident and the difference in the size and shade of the surrounding trees could still be seen. There is a lovely memorial deep in the forest with the Names and Nationalities of all those lost. There are still parts of the aircraft on the forest floor and many pieces have been brought up and placed on the memorial by various visitors. It was a very humbling experience.

Tenerife

The third site I have visited is Los Rodeos in Tenerife. Pan Am 1736 and KLM 4805, March 1977.

That particular day, in March 2016, a few days before the 39th anniversary, I witnessed the clouds coming rolling in from the hills overlooking the Airport. The same hills that saw the demise of a Dan Air 727 (Flight 1008) in April 1980 with the loss of 146 Souls. I've attached a photo with a view of the memorial overlooking the airport and runway with the hills beyond.

Tenerife Stairway to Heaven

The R101 accident was obviously before my time. Ermenonville and Tenerife were long before my involvement in Aviation.

Be it 'the National Pride' and the 'we have to show how good our Country is' with the R101 (the shame of not completing the job... keep going!), to the Ermenonville DC10 and the Corporate Cover up that McDonnell Douglas initiated with FAA complicity, to the advent of CRM following the accident in Tenerife, there are still very many lessons that we can all learn and keep learning from these accidents..." Paul H.

Paul also sent a video that is worth the view if you have time: 1:17. How we think about accident investigations  Pilots Blamed, despite the facts...

Air New Zealand Crash in Antarctica

If we always blame the pilot 
then nothing will get fixed. 

Enjoy the Journey

XO Karlene 

High Altitude Flying

On-Line Course! 

To Pre-Register go to:

pilot-error.com/online-course

Or call 

231-720-0930

Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene 

Happy Memorial Day!

Honoring our Veterans

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

General George S. Patton

EAL Radio Show

Episode 367

May 28, 2018

“Memorial Day Commemoration and

Our Eastern Veterans”

Honoring the veterans who have died in military service. 

Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, is observed on the last Monday of May and began to honor Union soldiers who had died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it was extended to include all men and women who died in any war or military action and the same after World War II.

The broadcast is at 7:00 pm EDT. 
Call in at: 213-816-1611

www.blogtalkradio.com/capteddie 

or www.ealradioshow.com 

See you at the Gate!

Happy Memorial Day! 

Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene