…weasels never get sucked into jet air intakes…
— Anon.
What do you call the first Fokker?
“And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the very first Fokker airplane built in the world. The Dutch call it the mother Fokker.”
— Custodian at the Aviodome aviation museum, Schiphol airport Amsterdam.
Bad day at the airport video
In case you have ever had a bad day at the airport – this video shows that things could have been much worst. Luckily, the incidents shown in the video do not look particularly serious and hopefully all the pilots (and passengers) involved were able to walk away as safer and better pilots.
The number one rule about fuel
The only time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire…
The perfect checkride
A checkride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
Why a co-pilot can never win
A copilot is a knot head until he spots opposite direction traffic at 12 o’clock, after which he’s a goof-off for not seeing it sooner…