by nestnh5_wp | Feb 11, 2022 | Articles
Jumping out of an airplane is a surreal experience. Looking down from 10,000 feet with nothing between you the Earth does not ever feel real. And then, you leap. The noise is deafening, the only real sensation of speed at first. After a few seconds a rip cord is...
by nestnh5_wp | Jan 15, 2022 | Articles
A wise man (and a close friend of Horizon) once said that “progress is never a straight line. You can’t be afraid to make a zig and a zag.” For former Horizon CFI Juan Barco, the process of becoming an airline pilot was full of zigs and zags. But last week, when he...
by nestnh5_wp | Dec 14, 2021 | Articles
Do you warm up your car before driving in the winter? Do you give yourself extra time to make the drive to work and back when it is snowing outside? Might you even stay home if the roads are too bad? With winter comes special considerations to driving your car and...
by nestnh5_wp | Nov 15, 2021 | Articles
Labeling something a “bucket list” item means that it has to have certain qualities. It is aspirational of course, but it should also be unique, require more than a minimum effort, and be the type of thing that makes a lasting imprint on your being. For our own Julian...
by nestnh5_wp | Sep 13, 2021 | Articles
I was as current as I had ever been. I had flown more in the last 8 months than I had in the last three years. I was getting paid to fly! So, how was it that I found myself stuck on top of a cloud layer with no way out? I had been hired to fly as a relocation pilot...
by nestnh5_wp | Aug 13, 2021 | Articles
If the last twenty years have taught us anything about the airline industry, it is that it is robust, elastic and cyclical in nature. The terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001; the economic meltdown of 2008 and last year’s global battle with COVID-19 all had a...
