Phil Kessler

Phil Kessler

Geneva Approach

After spending a lovely weekend with my fiancée and some close friends of ours in London, we lifted off at sundown from London’s general aviation airfield of Biggin Hill for our flight back to Geneva, Switzerland. My friend was sitting…

Pilot Induced Oscillation

With a new Pilots License, a used four seater airplane, and a relatively newlywed wife, I was taking her on her first aviation sightseeing trip over the Oregon Cascades. On our way over to the summit of Mt Jefferson (10,497…

Forward Cargo Hold

Being a pilot and still employed, I’ve had to leave many of the “Flight Statistics” blank! While dead-heading from Italy to the USA, a flight attendant and I decided to make good use of our time. The airplane I fly…

Qualified Instructor

A fellow flight-school student had asked if I wished to fly back with her to visit her parents in North Carolina. After an entertaining day at her parents’ house, we bundled tightly into her father’s pickup truck (this is North…

Entry Into The Club

This was our fourth flight in a series of four. Several other opportunities had come our way, but things never seemed quite right to join the “club,” (despite the comfort of a couple of L-1011 flights that offered easier access…

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 it came time to make the actual jump. When she…

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 forties walked up and took the aisle seat beside me.…

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. Having a habit of always looking for the prettiest women,…

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 (which would prove to be to our benefit later on).…