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West Valley is actually very nice, there is also a fly in community out that way. Just northwest is Naches and Cowiche and north is Selah. Selah is convenient and a little upscale. To the east is Moxee which is a very nice little town surrounded by hoppes fields. There are lots and lots of...

It also makes a difference if it is a Lycoming or a Continental.

Yakistan refers to the large influx of gangs in Yakima, another pet name is Crackima. You can Google "gang map of Yakima" for more information. My reasons for leaving Yakima are a mix of personal, changing demographics and the fact that the wet side controls the politics of the entire state...

320 blue sky days per year. Driving times: Two hours twenty minutes to Seattle, 3 hours to Portland and three hours thirty minutes to Spokane.

Most recently have lived there for 25 years, but am moving this summer.

Born and raised there.

As they say, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Sad to see.

In a manner of speaking a contact approach is a visual in IFR conditions (not really but you could view it that way) and a PRM is as you describe it. We train every year to qualify to do those approaches. Just like we train for CATII/CATIII approaches. You are asking some well thought out and...

In an MD-11 slowing down 30 knots means you will be climbing with flaps out, not so good for fuel burns. In Europe they have been doing this for many years, pain in the butt, but not that revolutionary.

Don't forget the Contact Approach and PRM.

Sudden gust of gravity.

I gave unsolicited advice and bragged a lot. Actually, I am working with my FO getting him ready for his Captain upgrade.

Does anyone have a cessna javelin aux tank set up they would like sell? I'm looking for one.

Or you could just walk into his hangar and kick his bucket over, right in front of him preferably.

Hailey Idaho (Sun Valley) had one for a while. The plate said for Horizon Air DHC-8 aircraft only on it. I have no idea if it is still being used.

Most modern commercial aircraft can't even fly an NDB approach anymore, unless it is an overlay, not that there many left anyway. Thirty or forty years ago VLF/Omega was the primary nav system. After a seven hour oceanic crossing you would be lucky to coast in within 20-30 miles of where you...

I expect my fellow crew members to draw attention to anything that they are uncomfortable with. I even include pilot jumps seaters in this as part of the crew briefing. It is also made clear that the final decision is for the Captain only. In this case I see that the reject and call it a day...

A lot of those feelings go away with more experience. Sometimes the feeling is more trepidation from not having flown in a while, sometimes it is based on conditions beyond what you have flown in before . Staying current year round and sometimes pushing yourself to try something new are...