GREAT blog entry in the NYT’s Jet Lagged blog entitled: The Airport Security Follies written by a commercial pilot. He calls shenanigans on TSA’s Kabuki performance otherwise known as “airport security.”
I strongly encourage people to read this…some highlights:

“No matter that a deadly sharp can be fashioned from virtually anything found on a plane, be it [...]

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So, Delta, trying to dial up the snark, has started a blog, and has a really snarky feature, short little videos entitled Planeguage (pronouced “plane-guage”, once you get it, it’s kinda funny).
They’re pretty funny, and I think this shows that at least one airline is trying to better connect with their customer (yeah, I’m looking [...]

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So, I somewhat surreptitiously use Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 with the GPS dongle while, in the words of Mike Warnke, strapped into a hollow metal tube under the command of a guy I’ve never met named  Bob, to see exactly where we are, how far up we are, and how fast we’re going.
This is [...]

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Here’s my first AA 757-200 with APB Blended Winglets…nice look!

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Ugh. As if I didn’t hate flying enough, news that we’ve had our second major mid-air almost-oopsie in the Chicago-land area recently (Chicago Tribune: Another mid-air close call).
What really freaks me out about this is the quote from the president of the local air traffic controllers union:
“These two planes went right past each other, and [...]

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it’s a fire-truck!

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The “Key West Express” as seen at Gate D-9 at RSW today.

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It was a tad bumpy tonight on my way back from TPA…it was like this all way…ugh, I hate turbulence…

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