This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck - Softcover

Morris, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770415858 ISBN 13: 9781770415850

Verlag: ECW Press,Canada, 2022

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For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight

Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline’s inflight magazine for 23 years and has answered a gamut of questions. This Is Your Captain Speaking will draw from his extensive experience and explain everything you ever wanted to know about airline travel: whether airliners have keys, why the bumps, what aircrew get up to on layovers, what’s the deal with “mile high memberships”, how to become a pilot. It also provides entertaining anecdotes from air travel’s unsung heroes — flight attendants. It’s the A to Z of airline travel with a twist of humor. The flight deck door will always be closed, but Doug exposes the unique inner world of aviation to the public.

• Doug Morris has written a monthly column for enRoute, Air Canada’s inflight magazine, since 1997.
• Doug Morris is an expert in commercial aviation, having flown more than 25,000 flying hours — the equivalent of driving from New York to Boston and back every day for six years, and is a certified meteorologist, working as a forecaster with Environment Canada.
• Doug Morris wrote a piece about the realities of flying during a global pandemic and talks about hygiene, air circulation, and layoffs.
• A great read for those afraid of flying who would like to alleviate concerns, or for those who are interested in the inner workings of flight and aircraft.

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Captain Doug Morris flies the B787, aka the Dreamliner, worldwide for an airline with a maple leaf emblazoned in its livery. He is a meteorologist and has written for his company’s inflight magazine for 23 years and counting. He resides in downtown Toronto with his wife and has three adult children. This is his fourth book.

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The secret side of airplane travel, straight from the captain

Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline's in-flight magazine for 24 years and answered a gamut of questions. This sequel to his bestselling book, From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science, explains everything you wanted to know about airline travel, such as: Do airliners have keys? What do aircrew get up to on layovers? Why the bumps? This Is Your Captain Speaking caters to the frequent flyer, the nervous flyer, aviation geeks, travel buffs, relatives to airline types, and that nosy neighbor who wonders what airline pilots do. Doug discusses how to become a pilot and the required training in the simulator, and shares passenger anecdotes about unsung heroes (flight attendants) and mile-high memberships. It's the A to Z of airline travel with a twist of humor. The flight deck door will always be closed, but Doug exposes the unique aviation world to the public. It's a must-read before or during your next flight.

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Cracking the three-letter airport code.

When booking a flight, reading your trip’s itinerary, or looking at the tags on your checked baggage, you’ll notice three-letter codes that identify airports. Sometimes it makes sense: BOS is Boston, MIA is Miami. But how do you get MCO for Orlando? Often, especially in Canada, where every three-letter code begins with a “Y”, they are illogical abbreviations. For most of us, it is one of the mysteries of travel. I will try to dispel some of the secrecy and unravel this Da Vinci Code mystery of flight.

So why not CHI instead of ORD for one of the busiest airports on the planet? History, along with geographical locations, names of airports, and personal tributes — with politicians’ names ranked up there — are what these three letters cater to. Years ago, the National Weather Service devised a two-letter identification system (blame it on the weatherman) to keep a handle on weather throughout the United States. When aviation was at its infancy, airlines simply adopted the system. However, expansion meant that towns without weather stations needed codes as well, so IATA (International Air Transport Association) created three-letter identifiers for airports around the world. Canadian weather offices associated with airports used “Y,” which made them easy to identify as Canadian. For some airports, it is easy to decipher: YVR is Vancouver, YWG is Winnipeg, and YQB stands for Quebec City. But where did they get YYZ for Canada’s busiest airport, Toronto Lester B. Pearson? Pearson, by the way, was a Canadian prime minister. There is still some shade of doubt about its true origin, but Toronto’s original airport, located in the town of Malton, had been assigned YZ for its Morse code telegraph identifier.

Incidentally, Chicago’s ORD is derived from “Orchard Field,” and the airstrip’s moniker is a tribute to pilot Lieutenant Commander Edward O’Hare. Orlando’s MCO stemmed from McCoy Airforce base. It’s neat to know that FFA is for First Flight Airport in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ECW Press,Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1770415858
• ISBN 13: 9781770415850
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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