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For a True Professional Pilot, School Is Never Out

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:11 +0000

As I write this, I’m sitting in Salt Lake City airport waiting for my flight home. I just finished three days of training. Day one was recurrent ground and days two and three were the CRJ200 and CRJ700 simulator training. Day one, the ground portion is always interesting. And I don’t mean that sarcastically. I [...]

Airline Pilot Health and Fitness While On a Trip

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:04:51 +0000

Pilots have it tough when it comes to staying healthy and staying fit. OK, yeah, it’s been a tough year physically for me. Since transferring up to Denver, my trips are more efficient which leaves me less time to work out on overnights. Also, my days tend to be longer which means that I’m usually [...]

Thoughts on Airplane Speed Control and Crossing Restrictions

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:49:02 +0000

Airplane crossing restrictions and speed control aren’t that big of an issue for turbojets if you know how to plan correctly. In piston-driven airplanes and turbo-prop multi-engine airplanes, though there is the possibility that you could get yourself violated by not making a crossing restriction at a fix, going faster that 250 knots below 10,000 [...]

Living Through Dips in Your Aviation Career

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:00:45 +0000

If you have been in aviation or flying airplanes for a living, you are probably wondering why you are still doing it. I fly with pilots all the time that have chosen aviation as their second career having left a more profitable career to fly airplanes. I was one of them. (You can read more [...]

9 Things Flight Instructors Should Do But Most Don’t

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:47:49 +0000

Recently I was talking with someone who was about to begin their training to become a certificated flight instructor or CFI. He was looking for guidance on what to expect. It sounded like he had a good grasp on the training and what is was going to be required but I pointed out the things [...]

Pilots Can Make The Skies Friendly Again

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:22:17 +0000

Commercial pilots, with a little initiative, can make the skies “friendly” again. Today I want to outline a few techniques that I’ve learned along the way to make your passengers more at ease and maintain better crew relationships. Don’t worry, they aren’t hard to do. They just require that you remain aware and practice them. [...]

The Hidden CRJ200 Altimeter and Airspeed Indicator

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:51:26 +0000

Today’s blog post was written by a fellow pilot, Pat Flannigan, who is a professional airline pilot, aviation blogger, and certified flight instructor (CFI). Pat has many years of flying experience in his log book and writes the blog, www.AviationChatter.com. You really need to check it out. Well the other day he asked if I [...]

Practicing Emergencies In An Airplane

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:39:02 +0000

Unless you are in some sort of flight training, there is really not much to do in between landing and takeoffs. If you are going through flight training, then from the moment you show up till the time you leave, you are probably busy learning something. But once you get all your pilot certificates and [...]

Landing Airplanes: The Holy Grail of Flying

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:23:38 +0000

A whole flight, no matter how perfect it is, seems to always comes down to whether is was a nice, smooth landing or a jumbled mess. And it seems that pilots, for better or worse, seem more concerned about the landing than anything else. You could say that landing an airplane is the holy grail of [...]

Are You a Great Airline Pilot…or Just Average?

jeffrey@flycrj.com (Jeffrey Synk) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:31:59 +0000

The other day I was watching TV that was exploring what made some athletes great! Imagine being one of the world’s top athletes. I mean the “top!” You are truly gifted and currently operating at your very best. And then realizing that because you are the best, you are actually holding yourself back both personally [...]