An Airline Pilot S Final Flight To Sobriety
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An Airline Pilot S Final Flight To Sobriety
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Author : A.J. Muench
language : en
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2024-06-24
An Airline Pilot S Final Flight To Sobriety written by A.J. Muench and has been published by Covenant Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-24 with Psychology categories.
"An Airline Pilot's Final Flight to Sobriety," is a narrative memoir and takes place on a metaphorical flight with the landing at the Final Destination, the author's two year sobriety date. The chapters: "Take off," "Climb," "Cruise," "Descent," "Approach," and "Landing" correspond to his life's journey with alcohol, amidst flying in the US Navy, US Customs, and a major US airline for four decades. His "flight plan" uncovers the many reasons why we drink, why we lose altitude in our lives, and how to jettison alcohol to gain altitude and soar in the Jet Stream. Come along on the flight, the Jetway doors are closing in five minutes!
Flying Drunk
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Author : Joseph Balzer
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2009-07-28
Flying Drunk written by Joseph Balzer and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-28 with History categories.
March 8, 1990: An intoxicated three-man crew, including Flight Engineer Joseph Balzer, fly a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, North Dakota to Minneapolis, Minnesota.Northwest Airlines, alcoholism July 25, 1990: All three pilots stand trial for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol; all three are convicted and sent to federal prison. July 26, 1990 – present: Joe Balzer fights for redemption and to regain all that he has lost. Flying Drunk is his story. Since he was a young boy, Joe Balzer dreamed of flying. He pursued his goal with a vigorous passion and earned his pilot licenses, piling up hours of flight time with a wide variety of planes and jets with one overarching goal: to one day fly for a major airline. But Joe had a problem. He was an alcoholic and refused to admit to himself that he had a problem. His alcoholism caught up with him in March 1990, when Joe was arrested with two other pilots for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol. His world began crumbling around him and his new marriage faced the ultimate test. He lost his promising career and his dignity. Every major media outlet, including The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine covered the shocking story for the stunned American flying public. The trial that followed drained Joe’s life’s savings and federal prison nearly broke him. Flying Drunk is Joe’s bittersweet and thoroughly chilling memoir of his twisted journey to a Federal courtroom, his time in the notorious Federal penitentiary system in Atlanta, and his struggle to recapture all that he held dear. Today, Joe is a recovering alcoholic, celebrating more than nineteen years of sobriety. The long road back from perdition led him to American Airlines, where good people and a great organization recognized a talented pilot who had cleaned up his act and was ready to fly again, safely. Flying Drunk is an incredible journey of the human spirit, from childhood to hell, and back again. Everyone should read and heed its message of hope and redemption. No one who does will ever forget it. About the Author: Joe Balzer is a pilot for American Airlines with more than 15,000 hours of flight experience. He has a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Education and is also an inspirational speaker, traveling around the country speaking to pilots and other groups on the dangers of alcohol and other addictions, bringing his audience to laughter and tears with his powerful message of hope. Joe lives in Tennessee with his wife Deborah and their two children. Flying Drunk is his first book.
Bottle To Throttle
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Author : Rob Grunke
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Bottle To Throttle written by Rob Grunke and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
...PILOT BUSTED! Recent TV and Newspaper headlines have brought to the public's attention yet another issue affecting the safety of our Nation's Airline Industry...the latest growing issue since Terrorism...BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS OF PILOTS! BOTTLE TO THROTTLE is the "first of its kind" sizzling and true account by Captain Rob...a seasoned Commercial Airline Pilot...and also a seasoned Drinker...(his book is presently under consideration as a screenplay). "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking"..."It would be my last flight shamefully, from captain Rob to Captain Drunk." Minutes later he was blowing into a Breathalyzer...and also blowing twenty-six years of flying! Yesterday he had been on the brink. He takes you on an incredible journey to his past with the hope of sorting out how it had led to today's "LIVING NIGHTMARE"! Written with humor and compassion, covering sensitive issues of today that began long ago...his life begins as a kid growing up in the BRONX! The "seeds were sown" by an "Army of Drunks" on both sides of the family! Had his path to drinking begun at age seven with a sip of beer on Thanksgiving Day or perhaps with the "whiskey-dripping" cherries? Had his Catholic school nuns and priests given him and other kids good reason to drink? "It never dawned on me that this MAN OF GOD actually enjoyed beatings, especially at swimming practice...we in our skintight Speedos." Was he later charged as a pedophile? The Captain's life continues to lead you through numerous escapades of grade school beer, high school booze, more booze at college, the drinking man's Navy, Europe's bars, South American bars, the alcohol vending machines of Asia, plus more, more, more of everything in California...then later his drinking career comes to an abrupt halt in "SIN-CITY" Las Vegas, Nevada! The Author recently went through a rehabilitation program for his alcohol addiction and shares this positive turning point in his life with readers! He's the son of a New York City Fireman, a graduate of Fordham University, a former Naval Officer, and Senior Captain and Instructor. BOTTLE TO THROTTLE serves as a reminder to his fellow Pilots of their great responsibility regarding the lives entrusted to them. It is also about Alcohol and the question...when does it become a problem? ...Statistics prove that 99% of all American households have at least one TV and that the public's demand for media truth escalated during the Clinton years and rose even higher with the events of September 11, 2001. While Rob's book may be particularly newsworthy on several subjects, his audience is not limited. His unique style of writing plus one continuous adventure after another result in a book that readers will not want to put down...regardless of profession, age, or gender
Hope For Challenged Airline Pilots An Untold Success Story
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Author : Ward B. Buckingham M. D.
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-12
Hope For Challenged Airline Pilots An Untold Success Story written by Ward B. Buckingham M. D. and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-12 with Self-Help categories.
Captain Ward Buckingham was saddled with the potentially devastating disease of alcoholism at a time when the disease was misunderstood and often ridiculed. In an industry whose attitude was typically to deny that a problem existed or to summarily fire the affected pilot, he was able to confront and control his illness. He was also a groundbreaking leader in helping the airlines 1) acknowledge and address this disease among their pilots, 2) support rather than ignore or humiliate or fire those who fell victim to it, 3) establish one of the most effective assessment and treatment programs in any major industry today. Imagine yourself a passenger on Pan Am's London to Los Angeles Boeing 747 in the early 1970's with actress Elizabeth Taylor seated on the captain's lap steering that one-million pound bird as it jockeyed for position at its assigned arrival gate in L.A. Or better yet, how about being a passenger on Pan Am's Boeing 707 leaving Seattle with the captain so drunk he had to be helped up the stairway by two fellow crew members and strapped in the cockpit's jump seat well removed from aircraft controls! But as far as passengers and airline management and FAA regulators knew, the captain remained in command of that flight on paper and over the PA system so that the 'secret' reality of his impaired state never left that cockpit and crew. Yep, both tales are absolutely true, and they illustrate a time in aviation history I label the 'dark ages' which others choose to call the 'golden age' of flight. My father was that captain in each case.No full-length book exists which tells what you are about to read. Let me be clear: this book is not intended to disparage the character of pilots, the competence of government regulators, or the courage of airline management. After all, who can fairly criticize those who are ignorant of a reality and hence impotent to effect change in that reality. Denial of reality is a different matter. Knowing reality, but denying its existence, is fair game for lodging criticism. This book will expose how pilots, regulators and airline management dealt with impaired airmen prior to the 1970's. In fact, it was a core of pilots who persevered in the 1970's to effect needed change in how alcohol dependency was viewed and dealt with. My father's life will be used throughout.Alcohol dependency is so common in our society that virtually every adult reader knows of someone in their sphere of influence with the disease, alcoholism. Some of you know of pilots who are still flying while in bondage consequent to current alcoholism. Please do not ignore your opportunity to bring deliverance to that friend, co-worker or loved one by being the loving enabler that my dear mother was to my father for so many years. The diseased one will only be farther down the dead-end road of terminal alcoholism allowed by your inaction. I hope to be a catalyst for readers' activism in moving present practicing closet alcoholic airmen to treatment and rehabilitation. Why? Because human nature still leads some to deny and/or hide their alcohol dependency. The HIMS program manager of one large airline has told me the following: "Many of our pilots are doing well in their recovery. Unfortunately, there are many many more that would benefit from this program but are not ready to do so."You will find some relevant contact information in my chapter nine and appendix I with names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and websites which can help you help those pilots in need of help. Someone has said that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Think about that and do your part for the good of humanity around you. When it comes to confronting the alcoholic mired in denial, you do well to enlist the helping guidance of recovered alcoholics. Nobody knows the practicing alcoholic's con game like one who has been there and is now solidly recovered and rehabilitated.
Final Approach Northwest Airlines Flight 650 Tragedy And Triumph
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Author : Lyle Prouse
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-11-29
Final Approach Northwest Airlines Flight 650 Tragedy And Triumph written by Lyle Prouse and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-29 with Air pilots categories.
The first airline pilot ever arrested and sent to prison for flying under the influence, and fired by his airline and stripped of his FAA licenses, recounts his rise, fall, and rise in the airline industry.
Federal Register
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Federal Register written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Delegated legislation categories.
Expediting Aircraft Recovery At Airports
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Author : C. Daniel Prather
language : en
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Release Date : 2012
Expediting Aircraft Recovery At Airports written by C. Daniel Prather and has been published by Transportation Research Board this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This synthesis study is intended to provide guidance in the area of aircraft recovery, as gained through a thorough review of the literature and interviews with key personnel involved with selected disabled aircraft events. Topics discussed include aircraft recovery guidance (regulatory and nonregulatory guidance), aircraft recovery personnel, aircraft recovery complications, an aircraft recovery plan, and case studies --
Aviation Resource Management
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Author : Brent. J Hayward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Aviation Resource Management written by Brent. J Hayward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This title was first published in 2000. This is volume one of a two-volume set which presents the reader with strategies for the contributions of psychology and human factors to the safe and effective functioning of aviation organizations and systems.Together, the volumes comprise the edited contributions to the Fourth Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium. The chapters within are orientated towards presenting and developing practical solutions for the present and future challenges facing the aviation industry. Each volume covers areas of vital and enduring importance in the complex aviation system. Volume one includes aviation safety, crew resource management, the aircraft cabin, cockpit automation, safety investigation, fatigue and stress, and applied human factors in training.
Federal Aviation Regulations
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Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Federal Aviation Regulations written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Aeronautics categories.
Modeling Flight Nasa Latest Version
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Author : Joseph Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Joseph Chambers
Release Date : 2015-08-10
Modeling Flight Nasa Latest Version written by Joseph Chambers and has been published by Joseph Chambers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with Business & Economics categories.
state of the art in aeronautical engineering has been continually accelerated by the development of advanced analysis and design tools. Used in the early design stages for aircraft and spacecraft, these methods have provided a fundamental understanding of physical phenomena and enabled designers to predict and analyze critical characteristics of new vehicles, including the capability to control or modify unsatisfactory behavior. For example, the relatively recent emergence and routine use of extremely power- ful digital computer hardware and software has had a major impact on design capabilities and procedures. Sophisticated new airflow measurement and visualization systems permit the analyst to conduct micro- and macro-studies of properties within flow fields on and off the surfaces of models in advanced wind tunnels. Trade studies of the most efficient geometrical shapes for aircraft can be conducted with blazing speed within a broad scope of integrated technical disciplines, and the use of sophisticated piloted simulators in the vehicle development process permits the most important segment of operations—the human pilot—to make early assessments of the acceptability of the vehicle for its intended mission. Knowledgeable applica- tions of these tools of the trade dramatically reduce risk and redesign, and increase the marketability and safety of new aerospace vehicles.