Author: Thomas Block
A lifetime of learning contained in a story about Capt. Richard de Crespigny and his Qantas Airways crew. When I…
Lessons learned about wind and mountain waves. As I sit to write this, the major theme in my life these…
Highlights from “Spinning at the Boundary: The Making of an Air Traffic Controller” by David Larson. This month I’ll be…
The last time we were together I began a series highlighting one of the aviation-themed audiobooks that I produced and…
Decades ago when I was flying as copilot in a Convair 240, I made notes for a future use that…
Fragments of what I was seeing and hearing and thinking in those early days when I flew as a copilot…
March 2005 Astute readers of this column will notice that, effective this month, we’ve got a change at the very…
April 2005-“Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.” This little philosophical phrase is something that I’ve…
January 2015- My notes include observations on piloting in general, with lots about airline flying and the types of people…
November 2014- Nothing else quite compares to nudging a throttlethat’s connected to a big radial engine.
September 2014- I’m writing this at the very beginning of this year’s thunderstorm season while I’m conducting a pseudo-class on…
July 2014- While I’m sitting at my desk and writing this, we are currently three weeks into the Malaysia Airlines…
