KIDS WILL BE KIDS

Me , (16) and my friend who is a girl, (15)  were on a flight to Haiti. We were all going, my family, her family, and a couple other families …

Ready To Jump

My friend and I were going on a skydiving trip at a local airport. She had never jumped and I was trying to teach her. She seemed pretty confident until …

L’Chaim!

The flight left Tel Aviv at 1:00 A.M. . . .already exhausted, I setteled into my window seat. As I was fighting to stay awake, a beautiful woman in her …

De-iced

I was on my way to Los Angeles to visit a woman I had been dating. As luck would have it, snow was falling heavily and my flight was delayed. …

Cold Stainless Steel

I was making a trip to San Francisco on business and I was going to be staying there over a weekend. Well, the hell if I was going to go …

Bored With The Movie

My girlfriend and I decided to go to Los Angeles on vacation. Since it was a last minute idea, the only flight we were able to get was a red-eye …

Instrument Flight Plan

Victoria and I had recently renewed our relationship after almost 20 years apart. We had been invited to Ft. Meyers by some friends for a BASE jumping trip and to …

Mail Run

My boyfriend was flying a mail run between Presque Isle Maine and Boston Massachusettes at the time. Occasionally, he would do this run without a co-pilot — these were my …

FAA Checkout

I had just passed my FAA checkout in the afternoon. Tracey couldn’t wait to get me alone “up there”. I rented a Cessna 152 and we left the airport about …

Thumbs Up

It was a day from hell. We took off from Detroit, and after 1/2 hour in the air the plane was turned around with hydraulic problems. We landed in Detroit …

Cast-Rated

We had just finished a two week stay on the island of Antigua and were homeward bound. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I had broken my ankle in a sailboat accident four …

Wet Landing

It was a beautiful July afternoon and I was all set to go on a long cross country that I had to do for my Commercial pilot’s license. I had …

Well Deserved Whiskey

It was a rather sad day as I left my friends and family in Australia to start a new life in London. Being a little upset, I decided to relax …