The airliner pushed back from the gate, the flight attendant gave the passengers the usual information regarding seat belts, etc.

Finally, she said, “Now sit back and enjoy your trip while your captain, Judith Campbell, and crew take you safely to your destination.”

Ed sitting in the eighth row thought to himself, “Did I hear her right? Is the captain a woman?”

When the attendants came by with the drink cart, he said “Did I understand you right? Is the captain a woman?”

“Yes,” said the attendant, “In fact, this entire crew is female.”

“My …

Here is a look back at some numbers for 2006:

Flying

Hours Logged: 84.0 (18.6 Pilot in Command)

Flights: 67

Longest “Duty Day”: 3.1 hrs.

Number of blog entries: 194

Number of school credits earned: 7

Website

Website page views: 5190

Top three countries visiting site: Canada, USA, Australia

Top five referring websites:

www.google.com
www.liveatc.net
www.oshawapilot.ca
www.thirtythousandfeet.com
blogs.aviation.ca

Although I wanted to get my PPL in September, I’m still on track to get my CPL by this time next year (2008). I’ve met a lot of interesting people along the way so far and plan on keeping those relationships throughout my flying career. Things are only …

I have been sick for the past four days with the stomach flu and have been bed ridden ever since.

So yeah, new years eve I was partying with the porcelain princess. On to aviation related things…

LiveATC.net has some excellent clips lately of controllers wishing landing aircraft a happy new year as they are the first landing of 2007. They have clips from various towers, but I’ve included the Pearson one here for you to listen to.

A more serious clip involves a controller with a stuck microphone. He utters some profanities …