Aviation writing

You might think writing about flying a commercial jet would be boring. You would be wrong, particularly when the Pilot who owns Flight Level 390 (an aviation blog) has a refreshing command of the language. Some lines;

I feed the flight management computers a few left electrons which tells the auto-pilot the “boss wants 10 degrees left” and left we go.

and;

The thrust management lobe behind my right ear takes over… Much better The uh-oh lobe behind my left ear is thinking, “OK, if this happens we will do this and if that happens we’ll do this and if that happens…” and on it goes in a constant stream of what-ifs. This is independent of the thrust management lobe behind my right ear. There is probably not much in between to connect the two halves.

His post on landing at Philadelphia during Hurricane Hanna is well worth the read