American Eagle flt # 3620 KORF- KMIA

As a CAT III pilot for American I am only qualified on a select few aircraft. Two of my favorites being the Embraer ERJ 145LR and the Boeing 737-823. On this occasion I am manning up an ERJ for a 2 hour flight to Miami. Loading up the manifest says 50 Pax. and 800 pounds of cargo. Quite heavy for the little plane but we can manage I am sure. Once we get the bags and everybody aboard the stewards close the doors and I start the engine start checklist. Engines 1 and 2 fire no problem. We push and taxi out to runway 5 in Norfolk for an easy climb out of the Atlantic. I turn onto the runway and come up to 40% on the power. Oil pressure is good rpms stabilizing and synced N1 synced release the brakes and we begin to roll. at about 100 knots the tiny jet's nose lifts and we start to leave the runway. I lift the gear and we turn to the south to make our way to MIA. The clouds are broken at about 20K as we climb through and then clear out the farther south we go until we get right over the Ormond beach VOR. Things are starting to thicken a bit and I see that Miami approach is no online and we will have ATC into the airport. I contact MIA app and he vectors me around the airport to the south for an ils approach to runway 09. No biggie. I line up on the radial and follow the approach path as the glideslope indicators lowers itself onto the zero degree mark on the screen. I press the approach button on the autopilot and the little jet plane glides onto rwy 09 where I exit left and taxi to the terminal. Another flight another 20 bucks...

Some family time and a virtual vacation...

I have been neglecting my duties a little here over the last few weeks because I have taken a little time to spend with my family I have still been flying(not much) but I just haven't really sat down and wrote about it. I promise dear reader that I will not leave you in the dark and I will bring you along with me from now on.

EasyJet (Flyvirtual) EHAM to LEPA 5-15-2010

Hooked up with my buddies Monnie, Younes, and Brighton for a flight from Amsterdam to Palma De Mallorca. Started taxi after loading up and was having problems with my mic. Once I got into the air euro west wanted me to contact him but he had issues and just dissapeared from radar. I was first in line, Brighton was behind me but then he dropped out. Monnie and then Younes were bringing up the rear in MD11s ( I was in a 737-700).  Barcelona radar was on and picked me up and vectored me around a nasty storm and I made the ILS for 24L on the lores 1P star. Monnie came in behind me and Younes dissapeared off into cyberspace somewhere lol.

American Flt #2193 KSNA-MZBZ

American 738 again. Headed out from John Wayne and turned south. My flight plan turned me back east after I got over Mexico and took me in Houston centers airspace. I was fixing the wife some lunch and Houston had to call me twice before I answered then 5 MINs. later he signed off WTF? Oh well I guess he wanted to make sure I was there I guess. I also talked to my good buddy Mark SWA7106 some of the way and I talked to my boss at SWVA Mike SWA5001 the rest of the way down there. It was a long flight so of course the wife was upset after hour number 3 but I got her down and had no problems. I know my string of good luck is going to run out sooner or later and I am going to have a major failure so I am keeping an eye out.

American Airlines flt #539 KDFW-KSNA

Boeing 737 from Dallas to Santa Ana John Wayne Int. very uneventful flight. No ATC, no weather, no problems. Heading out for Belize shortly.

SWA flt #983 KPBI-KISP

Loading up at KPBI in my SWA 737-700. I check the weather and it is overcast with showers around Palm Beach and clear about 20 miles to the north. I call for clearance and I taxi out to the raunway for takeoff winds are 040 @ 5 MPH so that is not too bad. I choose runway 10 for takeoff and I creep onto the tarmac. I hear the attendants call over the intercom that we are cleared for takeoff. I come up to 40% N1 on the throttles gauges seems ok so I roll em over to take off power and release the brakes and away we go. I roll down the runway and liftoff about 125 knots. We climb out and get about 20 miles out and everything calms down. No atc all the way to KISP so I climb and cruise at 37000. After I start my descent to KISP I pick runway 24 for landing. I take the loves2 arrivel and turn in on final. I pick up the ILS and drop the old girl onto the runway. Another one bites the dust.

KBWI to KPBI SWA flt #171

So I took my SWA 737-7H4 and loaded up at gate B13 in Baltimore. BWI grd was on so I called for clearance and he gave me the terpz1 departure and rwy 28 for departure. I taxied to rwy 28 where I switched over to Patomac Departure who cleared me for takeoff. After I got up and PD gave me radar contact he wanted to know if I wanted to fly FL360 as traffic was reporting turbulence so I chenged my plan to 380. He cleared me to 380 and I began to climb. after about 2 mins he called me back and told me 380 was bumpy to so I changed the plan again and requested FL400. I climbed up to 400 and it was really bumpy through 392. Also Air Force one was checking out to New York center as we climbed. After that it was uneventful until I descended into miami airspace. Center was on so I checked in and he gave me vectors for rwy 10. I wanted to come in from the east over the water so I asked for 28R and he vectored me around. I called the field in sight and descended over the threshhold of the runway and made a very bumpy landing onto the runway. First flight is done and in the books of this adventure.

Introduction and mission statement

Hello girls and guys. My name is Chris. I am a disabled veteran from Virginia Beach and welcome to my blog. I was in the Navy for 10 years as an Aviation Ordnanceman but my love for flying started way before that as a child. I have always dreamed of flying and being a pilot. When I got hurt and I couldn't walk much anymore, I realized that my dreams of being an aviator were slipping away. Now I have turned to Microsoft flight simulator for my travels as a pilot. I am going to take you on a journey as I travel through my three different virtual airlines and my trials and tribulations as I fly for them. These airlines are www.flyvirtual.org a cargo alliance that flies many different companies, www.joinava.org (American virtual airlines) where I am a CAT 3 pilot who has just started, and my crown jewel www.virtualswa.com (Virtual Southwest) where I am the assistant hub manager for SWVAs Orlando hub. I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I enjoy making it, so come along and fly with me as I take to the skies from right here at my computer!