Tag Archives: Captain Dave

Captain Dave to ground control

I thought for a moment there that Captain Dave of Flight Level 390 had returned to blogging. Then I noticed that the writing style was different and the url had acquired a hyphen. To capitalize on Dave’s fame, I suppose, but I see no ads there yet.

At least one of Dave’s blogging pals has stepped forward with the news that he wasn’t fired or told to stop expressing his opinions of his work on the Internet but merely was tired of blogging. Can’t blame him for that. Esepcially when he has to work and blog. Hope he comes back to it, though. No one better.

UPDATE:  His blog has turned into a PC game download site. Obviously just using his old blog name for its popularity. Pity. Best of luck, captain D.

Slats and flaps

Captain Dave not only is the kind of airline pilot that even someone who’s afraid of flying would enjoy flying with, he can also write really well. And this piece, probably tossed off with a minimum of rewriting at his Flight Level 390 blog (subtitle: America from the flight deck), is one of his best.

“This is the start of a long day”

If you’re not quite bold about flying, you may not find a lot of reassurance in Captain Dave’s writing. But the reality behind his poetry sure beats sitting in an office chair under a cluster of gas balloons (see below).

New Fi-Fi 321

Captain Dave, at more than ten thousand feet above the Llano Estacado. Life on the line continues.

“Flight level 330…

…and begging to go higher and faster." Captain Dave, somewhere over the Heartland of the Empire, does it again. Poetically.