What Are Your Personal Minimums?
Lately, I’ve written a few posts about how being a professional pilot has had a major impact on my day-to-day life. This week I realized another benefit. A major issue came up, and as I was trying to decide whether or not…
Creative Flow: What’s Your Ritual
My favorite time at airports is just before sunrise. I crave the calm and quiet that veils before propellers crank and jet engines roar. The green and white glint of the airport’s rotating beacon is, for me, a reminder of what a…
Competition: The Healthy, Unhealthy and the Destructive.
Pilots are fiercely competitive. At any given moment in a group of aviators, there is no question who is the best. The reason being, that every six months in order to be captain (aka the pilot-in-command, PIC) professional flyers must go to…
Resolutions
On my way to go horseback riding, I drove down a rural stretch of historical highway Route 66, listening to the local country music station. The drive, roughly an hour, allowed a good stretch of time for me to relax and listen…
Being Unconventional~Do the Sacrifices Outweigh the Benefits?
This past week I went to Daytona Beach, FL. Back to my alma mater to verify some facts for my third young adult book. Being in Daytona always unearths droves of emotions; Excitement, sadness, fear and hope. The good and the bad…
The Real Deal Behind Math and Science Class
Recently I was invited to talk to a group of high school students about careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). We also discussed why it’s important to continue to develop the strategic thinking, problem solving, organization and execution skills that…
The Myth of Keeping Up.
I have a strong sense of discipline. A characteristic people tell me they both like and hate most about me. From the outside this sense seems like a gift and it is, beyond a doubt. A gift, however, that needs to be…
Advice from a Vietnam Pilot
Years ago, I marched into the airplane hanger where I worked, my nerves about to split skin. Upset by someone in my life who had decided to hold me accountable for another’s actions. Back then I didn’t know, what I know now….
“Say again?” Texting and Communication Gaps
I love nail-biting movies. The one that always comes to mind is the screen version of Tom Clancy’s The Hunt For Red October. Forever in the pursuit of speaking my truth and becoming an uber communicator, there is one scene in this…
Single or Double. Perceptions from the Cockpit.
I meet the most interesting people on airplanes. Some time ago, I sat next to a pilot. Even though he wasn’t in uniform, I knew. A seventh sense of sorts. My aviator radar pinged. “What kind of pilot are you?” I asked…