Al The Web Guy Strikes Again

FROM CAP’N MERYL

Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:


USA Today.com Column


If anyone who’s been with me as a reader for some
time has stopped by www.fromthecockpit.com lately,
you must have noticed there’s a whole new look.
Al The Web Guy has been working ‘round the clock
to redesign this site for several reasons.

As far as I can tell, Al The Web Guy operates on
batteries. No human could function on the three
hours per night sleep he gets. You could say he’s
a little intense when he gets going on a project.
I pass him occasionally on the way to the kitchen,
but that’s about it. He’s like the Energizer
Bunny except his ears are smaller and he’s not as
pink. Cuddly, though, and actually quite furry,
if you must know. Add a little drum and you could
hardly tell the difference.

When we first hired a web designer to get us going
with a website, we didn’t have anything commercial
in mind. We just wanted a place where people could
come to communicate directly with an airline
captain or two, in this case me and Al The Web
Guy, a retired B-747-400 captain—-to get their
questions answered. After the initial design, Al
The Web Guy took over and added several pages,
graphics and the upkeep of the site. He wanted a
design, however, that wouldn’t require so much
time for slower connections to load.

Now that the site is a huge hit with tens of thousands of
visitors each month, we’ve had to get a dedicated
server to keep up with demand. To cover this and
other related expenses, we decided to go ahead and
open the site up to advertisers. Most of the ads
will be in the right-hand margin and hopefully
you’ll find things of interest there. The main
site content for now is basically unchanged except
for our new “Articles” section and the “Poems by
Captain Meryl section.” Have a look along that
left-hand margin to make sure you haven’t
previously missed something that interests you.

If anyone has an interesting tale to tell about a
wonderful trip, or an awful trip—just something
interesting—please submit it to me and I’ll see
about publishing it in the “Articles” section.
Use the following address with your explicit
permission to publish if we choose to do so. Put
ARTICLE in the subject and submit to me at:
info@fromthecockpit.com

If you spot any errors in our new site, please
bring them to our attention and we’ll get them
fixed. (What’s this “we” stuff? What I really
mean is I’ll tell Al The Web Guy and he’ll get
them fixed.)

Also in this issue I wanted to let you know about
a special deal being offered by my friends “The
Trip Chicks” who had me as a guest on their radio
show not long ago. They’ve asked my help in
spreading the word about a last-minute, moderate
level biking trip to the Czech Republic. Please
click here for all the details:
http://www.thetripchicks.com You’ll also find
this info in the right-hand margin on our new
site. You can listen to my May 2005 interview, if
you want, on WMET 1160 Washington DC at the
following link. You’ll need to scroll down to
bottom of pages and pull down menu of May 29.

http://wmet1160.com/artman/publish/thetripchicks.shtml


One more thing, and that is I’d like some input
regarding my notion of including a “Voices from
our Troops” section on my site. After having
flown a military charter to Kuwait, I’ve
maintained personal contact with some of the
troops we dropped off out in the “sandbox.” When
we landed, a military welcoming committee of
officers came on board our plane and that’s what
they said, “Welcome to the sandbox.” What these
soldiers write to me and what the media reports
are so vastly different, it occurred to me to give
them some space on my site. This isn’t for
political venting, but rather just for human
interest—not that different from my “Ask The
Captain” column in a way where I answer
matter-of-fact types of questions. I’m interested
in their personal thoughts, about coping with
being away from home, what their day-to-day life
is like, etc. The question is, are you
interested?

Please send me your thoughts about whether to
include such content on my site in a note to
info@fromthecockpit.com In the subject please
put IRAQ so I know to open your email right away.
With well over a thousand emails per week now, I
need some help sorting. Also, do you like the
name “Voices from our Troops” or “Voices from the
Sandbox” or do you have something else to suggest
as a title?

And with that, I’ll get back to work writing the
sequel to “The World At My Feet.” I’m up to
chapter 12 now and more than a third of the way
finished. Of course, this is before my editor has
had her first shot at my manuscript, so I don’t
know what’ll be left after she gets done with what
I’ve written so far.

New subscribers can find the original book at
www.fromthecockpit.com.

And with that, until next time...


Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl

www.fromthecockpit.com
www.flyingfearless.com
www.fromthecockpit.com/profile.htm (keynote
speaker contact info)


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Flying Tigress – Book Signing

FROM CAP’N MERYL

Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:

USA Today Column


Flying Tigress – Book Signing

I want to let everyone know, especially those of
you in the Seattle area, that my friend Norah
O’Neill, author of the recently-released book
“Flying Tigress” will be signing books on August
25th.

Her book was especially poignant to me, having
been down a difficult path myself. Our stories
are very different, but with plenty of common
elements.

Here is what one reviewer said:
“More than a witty memoir by the first woman pilot
at a macho cargo airline and her adventures flying
around the world, this is an excruciatingly honest
yet compelling account of one woman’s ascent to
747 pilot, the price exacted for the privilege,
her devastating fall from grace, and gutsy journey
back into the skies.”
Women In Aviation Magazine by columnist, Capt.
Jenny Beatty

Here are the details:
PIONEER PILOT EXPOSES WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN
WOMEN FIRST DARED TO CROSS THE AIRLINE COCKPIT
THRESHOLD.

Book Reading and Signing
To Benefit Residence Xll

Epilogue Books
2005 NW Market St.,
Seattle, WA 98107
206-297-2665
http://www.norahoneill.com

August 25, 2005
Seven P.M.

Norah O'Neill, the first woman in the world to fly
passengers on a 747 will talk about her memoir,
Flying Tigress, read from it and answer questions
at the women-owned-and-operated Epilogue Books.
Epilogue will donate ten percent of the day’s
profits to the non-profit, all-women treatment
center Residence Xll.

Norah and I got acquainted after my book “The
World at My Feet” had been published and hers had
just been released. You can see her famous
Kitty-Cat pajama shot with her gorgeous, flaming
red hair in my Photo Gallery at this link. She
had just come up to the cockpit after some bunk
time on a long flight.

Captain Norah

As for me, I’m deep into the writing of my second
book, a sequel of sorts to “The World At My Feet.”
My first book ended pretty much as I got hired by
my current airline-which-must-not-be-named. It’s
how I got from being told little girls can’t
become airline pilots to now I am one, for you
recent subscribers who may not be familiar with
it. It may be ordered from
www.fromthecockpit.com.

The second book will have some stories in it which
were cut from the first book due to length which
deal with living and flying in Alaska and continue
on to my career up to the present time. At least,
that’s the plan.

When I met with Marcia, my editor, last week in
New York, we went out for coffee and she told me
to “just talk” for a half hour. I had to ask her
if she was on drugs. I explained to her that what
most people want to say to me is, “For heaven’s
sake, ENOUGH already! Please, just SHUT UP!”


My Dad always refers to me as “The Fastest Mouth
in the West” with good reason and once, when I was
very little, maybe around four years old or so, my
Mom was combing my hair over my head down in front
of my face and was just about to flip it back
again. Lorin, the middle of my three older
brothers, was standing there and said, quite
seriously, “Better stand back before all that blab
starts coming out again!” He was nine years old
or so. Smart boy.

So this was a rare treat for me to actually have
an audience while I spilled my guts. After
awhile, she led me into a conference room and
asked me to do the best I could to put all the
things I had talked about into an outline. She’s
thinking of a twenty-chapter book or so, and I
wrote as fast as I could until she came back.

One thing I had to be very, very careful about was
writing so I could read my notes. I have a bad
habit of scribbling really fast but not watching
what I’m doing. By the time I thought of asking
to borrow a computer I was too far along to
bother. I did okay, though, and could read
virtually all of what I wrote.

When Marcia came back, I had fourteen chapters
outlined. After I got home I did as I promised
and typed up my notes, adding things as they
occurred to me. There were thirteen pages of
outline when I’d finished, including thoughts for
all twenty chapters.

This is just the beginning of the writing process,
and I’m anxious to see how this plays out. This
is my first time working closely with a
professional editor. I’m on my break right now
writing this Update so you know I’m still here,
but now it’s back to work. So, forgive me for
cutting this short, but I’m hoping you understand.

Back to the ole grindstone now, so...


Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl
www.fromthecockpit.com
www.flyingfearless.com
www.fromthecockpit.com/profile.htm(keynote
speaker)

“The World At My Feet” – Sequel – The Journey Continues...

FROM CAP’N MERYL

Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:


USA Today.com Column

Note: Thanks to all of you who attended one or both of
the free teleseminars hosted by Al The Web Guy and
myself last Monday and Tuesday. Due to an outage or
glitch or something mysterious at our end, the reminder
for Monday’s teleseminar went out one Sunday too late.
Our apologies.

This week I headed for New York to visit some friends I
haven’t seen in awhile. We had breakfast out near the
airport where I was staying, and then I headed into
town to meet with my editor regarding the sequel to
“The World At My Feet.”

Every single week we have lots of new subscribers, so
for those of you who are here for the first time, you
can read a synopsis and order my book, if you choose,
from my site www.fromthecockpit.com. The synopsis
along with a funny audio clip may be found by clicking
on “The Book!” button.

I was asked specifically to hold off even starting the
new book until after I had met personally with my
editor. The only other time I’d met with her in person
was the day my agent took me to her office the day we
were making the rounds in New York seeing what the
interest level was in my writing.

In any case, I’ve just now starting the actual writing
of this book as it took us the last several months to
get this meeting organized. Both my editor and I have
ridiculously hectic schedules, but after meeting
personally now I know what direction to take and can’t
wait to get this new book finished and on the market.

Of course, since I just started it earlier today
(Sunday, August 14th as I’m writing this) one can only
assume it’ll be a little while yet. Writing a book is
only part of what’s involved in getting it on the
market and out to the public. When the manuscript is
edited and complete, an advance copy will be produced
and sent out to reviewers and that of course takes a
few months.

The book is listed in various catalogs for a few months
as well. There is at least a six-month lead time
between a completed manuscript and publication so even
after my part is done it’ll be awhile. June 2006 has
been the estimated date of release and hopefully we’ll
be able to make that.

There are three new photos in my Photo Gallery this
week. The first one is the captain who flew the
airplane when I flew out to San Francisco last week to
visit my brother, and also to appear live in-studio (as
opposed to dead in-studio, I suppose) on KGO AM’s Ronn
Owens Show. I rode the jump-seat in an A-320 (hmmm,
I’m thinking this seems kind of familiar) as the flight
was completely full. The pilots were really hospitable
and, as I often do, I offered them pictures for
themselves. Many pilots don’t have any pictures of
themselves and it’s kind of embarrassing to ask
sometimes, so I’ve made it one of my missions to offer
this service to my colleagues. In any case, you can
see Captain Greg Harris’s photo in the U.S. Album on
page 2. Or just click here:

Captain Greg Harris

Although many pilots take me up on this offer, not all
do. Some give me permission to post their photos when
I tell them about my site and how popular it’s gotten
(over a million hits per month now). It’s kind of nice
for them to be able to tell their relatives or friends
where to find a picture of themselves online, and it’s
good for my site visitors because people make the site
more interesting and varied. Right? I sure think so.
On this trip I had just one taker, and that was the
captain. The copilot said he had current pictures and
didn’t need anymore at the moment.

The second photo was taken out my hotel window near La
Guardia, looking at the airport. You can see the final
approach lights in the water in the right of the
picture. Not the world’s greatest photo, but Al The
Web Guy decided it was better than nothing and uploaded
it. This photo is located near Captain Greg’s in the
same Album, or just click here:

La Guardia
The trip to New York was necessary, interesting and
productive, and as always, something just a little
funny happened. Not hysterically funny—just kind of
cute.

After having breakfast with my friends at my hotel,
they left and I was going to hop the shuttle to go
across the street to catch a cab downtown. I was
starting to run late, though, and decided at the last
minute to use the hotel’s private car service. They
have dibs on hotel guests and cabs aren’t allowed to
come to the hotel to wait.

So I went into the little office near the front of the
hotel and there were these three kind of swarthy guys
there. I made arrangements for a car and instead of
sending one guy out to pull the car up, all three of
these guys escorted me out into the parking lot, having
a heated discussion on how best to get to my
destination address.

This was our crew layover hotel. I like to stay here
when I’m in New York because they give us a fantastic
rate, but wouldn’t you know it? As I was swept out the
door by this small crowd of guys, I was discussing with
them how long it would take to get downtown when I
looked up and right into the face of a uniformed pilot
I’ve flown with many times. He was standing just in
front of the hotel waiting for the airport shuttle.

“Hey, Meryl” he said, looking mildly confused.

“Oh, hi!” I said as brightly as I could manage.

He looked as though he expected something resembling an
explanation, and I have no idea what he must have
thought, but we all just kept walking toward an
unmarked fancy car with tinted windows. I hoped it
looked sufficiently mysterious to keep him wondering
for awhile, but I guess I’ll never know.

Oh, yes. The third picture is of my editor, her
assistant and two other staff members of Thomas Dunne
Books (a division of St. Martin’s Press). It’s in the
Speaking Events/Awards/Books Album or you can just
click here:

Thomas Dunne Books Editor and Staff

Nothing else worthy of note to tell. Time to go write
a book!

Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl
www.fromthecockpit.com
www.flyingfearless.com
htp://www.fromthecockpit.com/profile.htm

A THOUSAND SCREAMING BANSHEES

FROM CAP’N MERYL

Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:


Aug. 9th column


NOTE: Thanks to all of you who joined Al The Web Guy and me
on our teleconference last evening. Cap’n Al and I enjoyed
“meeting” several readers and hope we provided some
interesting general information. A second teleconference
will take place tonight, August 9th, same time (5:00 PM PT
and adjust for your time zone) for nervous fliers. You may
register for that call right now at www.flyingfearless.com
and you’re welcome to join the call even if you’re not
nervous about flying. (!)

This week was spent doing quite a bit of running around the
country for my own purposes. My first stop was Chicago
where I was obliged to attend a meeting at the airport. One
of my teenage readers, Anthony from New York, has been in
contact with me for months after discovering my site, column
and book. He’d written to say he’d like to meet me sometime
and would be passing through Chicago on a certain date.

I wasn’t in Chicago on that date, but then he wrote that
he’d returned to his home in New York as his flight was so
late due to weather he had no chance of connecting. There
was almost an exact repeat the next day, although this time
his flight was actually cancelled due to traffic saturation
at O’Hare, which is also usually weather related.

So was it to be “third time’s a charm” or “three strikes
you’re out”? In this case, apparently it was “third time’s
a charm.” Not only did Anthony and his sister Tiffany, who
was traveling with him, make it on the third attempt, but
that happened to be the very day I was in Chicago for my
meeting.

So I high-tailed it out of the meeting room as soon as we
were done and dashed through the airport to find Anthony and
Tiffany two terminals over, and the rest is history. We
took each other’s pictures and, as Anthony pointed out, it
seemed time for a new Album. Thus was born the Cap’n Meryl
& Friends Album. You can look for Anthony and Tiffany along
with Father Jeremiah Loch (I moved him and his family from
the overloaded U.S. Album). You’ll also see Captain Jimmy
Smith whom I met on a charter I flew some months ago to the
Middle East. He just wrote me this week, in fact, to tell
me he’d returned home to the U.S. for a couple of weeks to
meet his new baby son. Then it was straight back to duty.
As I cross paths with other readers I will add them to this
Album.

Captain Brown

On that same charter flight, I posed with my entire flight
crew along with Major General Webster whom I’ve since seen
occasionally on the evening news. This is one of the most
viewed photos in my entire Photo Gallery. If you’ve never
seen it, have a look:

http://General

After my business and personal meetings in Chicago, I came
home to Denver for a few days, then headed out to San
Francisco to do a live in-studio interview with Ronn Owens,
a popular talk-show host on the Bay Area’s largest radio
station. Many of my readers wrote to let me know they heard
the show, so let me say thanks for taking the trouble to
listen. There wasn’t one time during the entire hour that
every phone line wasn’t lit up and emails pouring in with
questions from listeners, and I feel it was a good
interview.

The night before the interview I invited my brother Ned and
his wife Irene to come from Berkeley to have dinner with me
downtown San Francisco. Ned was featured in my book “The
World At My Feet” in the chapter called “Let’s Go to Smokey
Joes!” In that chapter I described how I flew overhead his
Berkeley restaurant in a helicopter but got a little lost
and had to hover on down to read the street signs (through
binoculars) with my helicopter flight instructor Barry Lloyd
. There is a picture in the book of Ned and his clientele
standing in front of Smokey Joe’s which I took from the
helicopter and a picture of Barry Lloyd as well. Irene is
credited for the last picture in the book for a collage she
created for my parents’ 60th anniversary a few years ago.

For my newest subscribers: If you haven’t read “The World
At My Feet” and would like to order it now, you’ll find it
at the bottom of my Home Page at www.fromthecockpit.com.
There is a synopsis accessible from the Home Page as well.
Just click on the brown button that says “The Book!” and
don’t miss the seven minute audio clip about my run-in with
the Goodyear Blimp. The chapter in the book is called “The
Good Times Blimp” and this episode has pretty much become my
signature story when I speak publicly. Speaking of
speaking, Al The Web Guy has added a new button to my
website called “Professional Speaker.” So many of my
readers are business executives and might be interested, I
thought I might as well include it here:
www.fromthecockpit.com/profile.htm

So what does any of this have to do with screaming banshees?
Well, I’ll tell you: When I fly into San Francisco as a
flight crew member, our transportation is arranged and we
just jump on and go. This time I was on my own, and I
decided to check out Bart. When I lived in the Bay Area in
the late 80’s, I rode Bart a couple of times but it did not
yet extend out to the airport.

From my flight I followed the signs to the free “Airtrain”
which dropped me off at the airport Bart Station. Very
clean and very efficient. I got my ticket out of a machine
($4.95 for stops downtown San Francisco) and hopped aboard
the next train, which came along in about five minutes or
so. So far, so good.

The first part of the ride from SFO was above ground and
just like being on a regular train. Then we went
underground and the sound effects got very weird and very
loud. The noise started out rather like a voice howling
—like something from a Stephen King novel. Then it got
louder as it sounded like more and more and more voices
joined in. As the train got faster inside the tunnel, the
noise level grew so loud and the pitch so shrill and high I
had to cover my ears. It was incredible, really.

After one particular stop I was the one of only three people
in my car. There was a guy at the far end of the car and
one just across the aisle from me who appeared to be
sleeping. How anyone could sleep or even look relaxed
through that racket I have no idea.

Somewhere along the line, I decided to test the noise level
á la Cap’n Meryl. First, I spoke in a normal tone of voice.
Nothing. Couldn’t hear a thing except the screaming of the
train. Then I raised my voice somewhat. Nothing. Then I
tried a soft scream. Still nothing. So I went for it. I
sat there and screamed really, really loudly and tried to
match my pitch to that of the train. Unbelievable! I
couldn’t distinguish my own scream from the noise of the
train, but I couldn’t sustain it because it was just too
funny and I started to laugh instead at the absurdity of it.
The guy across the aisle still appeared to be asleep and the
guy at the far end never once looked my way.

So let me say this about Bart: I love it. I can’t imagine
taking any other transport from the airport again when I’m
doing my own transportation arranging. What a wonderful,
inexpensive, efficient way to get downtown San Francisco
from the airport. But take your earplugs! I actually carry
a spare set in my purse as I’m around airplanes so much, and
I did wind up using them. Other passengers didn’t seem to
mind a bit, but if you’re at all like me, heed the warning
and protect your ears.

After my radio interview it was the BART scream-machine back
to the airport, then a short flight down to San Diego to be
with my parents on my Mom’s birthday. We had a birthday
dinner the night before her birthday and a birthday
breakfast out the next day, and after that it was already
time to leave and come home to Denver. You’ll see I added a
picture of my Mom and me in the Denver to San Diego Album.

Meryl and Mother

Tomorrow (Wednesday, August 10th) it’s off to New York to
meet with my publishers about my next book, due out June
2006.

And that’s my news. I’m taking some more time off from
flying for now so…

Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl
http://www.fromthecockpit.com
http://www.flyingfearless.com
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A PHONE CHAT WITH CAP’N MERYL & AL THE WEB GUY

FROM CAP’N MERYL

Link to last week’s column****** at USAToday.com/travel:


July 26 Column

******This week’s Update has to do with a major radio
interview TOMORROW, Tuesday, AUGUST 2nd. This week’s travel
column should come out late in the day on Monday or early
Tuesday. You can find it at www.usatoday.com/travel.

A PHONE CHAT WITH CAP’N MERYL & AL THE WEB GUY

I first mentioned the notion of a live phone conversation
with me and Al The Web Guy in my last Weekly Update. If you
are a new subscriber, you can see past issues of my “Weekly
Update” at: www.fromthecockpit.com/Blogg but the relevant
part about the phone conference was this:

“Coming soon is a free teleseminar which will be offered to
my subscribers. Here’s how it’ll work: Along the lines of
my “Ask The Captain” column at usatoday.com/travel,
participants will be able to email me specific questions
about life as a pilot, specifics about the airplane I fly,
things that may worry you or that you’ve wondered about when
you’ve flown, etc. Al The Web Guy will join me so you can
meet him, too. Just an informal chat.”

Al The Web Guy, who, if you don’t already know, is also
Cap’n Al (retired B-747-400 captain) and I have decided to
hold this event on August 8th at 5:00 PM Pacific Time
(adjust for your Time Zone). This is just an informal chat
with Al The Web Guy and me for no special reason other than
we both feel like it. Just so you know, the lines will
probably not be open, in order to keep the background quiet
and to eliminate distractions. If you would like to
participate, click on the following link. You’ll be able to
register for the call and instructions will be given on how
to submit your questions. Please join us!
http://www.fromthecockpit.com/freeseminar.htm

I’m writing this on Friday, July 29th 2005. I’m still not
flying right now—at least not at the controls. Between the
slightly hurt back (mostly better now) and some other issues
it’s just as well for now. My readers will be among the
first to know when I’m back on the job. This is goof-off,
catch-up, go-to-the-beach (what beach? I live in Denver),
pretend-to-take-it-easy time. We’ll see how I do.

First of all, thanks to the many of you who have expressed
concern about my hurt back. It really wasn’t that bad after
a day or two and I’m mostly better now, but it’ll still be a
little bit before I take another flight as a pilot.
Hopefully not too long. Thanks for all your concern,
though. I appreciate all the notes.

In the meantime, I’m taking advantage of my time off to do
some things I’ve been putting off, and one of those is to
appear on a very popular radio talk-show in San
Francisco—The Ronn Owens Show, heard weekdays from 9:00 AM
to Noon on the Bay Area’s largest radio station, KGO AM 810.

I was on Ronn’s Show once before for just about five minutes
by phone from my hotel room in Chicago one day when there
was some airline-worthy news, but generally this show
requires its guests to appear live in the studio. I tried
for a whole year to schedule this while laying over in San
Francisco and I’ve spoken with the producer several times,
but I always either managed to wind up there over a weekend,
or the hours were wrong, or the show was on the road that
week, or whatever. In any case, it just never worked out so
I thought, why not now while I have some extra time off?

Although that first phone interview from Chicago was less
than five minutes long, it was followed by invitations from
some of the major networks to come to their TV studios for a
live interview that day. Unfortunately, none of them
realized that this hadn’t been a local interview and that I
was not downtown San Francisco but rather in Chicago. So
none of that worked out at the time but it was still kind of
exciting to get those calls.

In any case, I picked up the phone this morning and called
the producer, whom I first met a year ago at a “Publicity
Summit” (this is also where I met the producer from “The
View” and how I was booked for that show) and he booked me
for this coming Tuesday, August 2nd, for the 10:00 AM to
11:00 AM Hour. When I made the call I wasn’t even sure the
show would still be interested in having me on after all
this time, but apparently I needn’t have worried. So off I
go.

If you’re not in the Bay Area and/or can’t listen live on
810 AM there is a direct link to a page where you should be
able to listen online to the interview with Ronn Owens.
Note that the show will be in their Archives for 24 hours
after it airs.
http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp#

Don’t forget there is a Media Links button at
www.fromthecockpit.com so you can always go there and then
click on the link just below the words “Events Calendar” for
my interview schedule.

By the way, if any of you are yourselves authors or need
publicity for any reason, I highly recommend the Publicity
Summit I just mentioned. It’s a little pricey but I found
it to be worth every penny as it put me face-to-face with
lots of radio and TV hosts and producers, magazine editors
and writers, etc. It was at this event that I met a
producer from “The View” and was later booked as a guest.
Anyone looking for more information should just hit reply
and put “Publicity Summit” in the subject. I’ll be happy to
send you some information about it.

For those of you in the Des Moines area, I’ve been asked for
an encore interview which will take place with Jerry Reno on
Tuesday of the following week, which is August 9th. This is
a much shorter interview, probably less than ten minutes
long, and this one will be a call-in interview from my home
near Denver. The interview will be at approximately 4:20 PM
Central Time.
www.WHOradio.com/drivetimedesmoines NEWSRADIO 1040 WHO

As soon as I’m done with the interview in San Francisco this
coming Tuesday, it’s back to the airport to hop a flight
down to San Diego to be with my Mom on her 83rd birthday on
August 3rd. I made it last month for my Dad’s birthday.
You can see my Dad and me, if you care to, in the Denver to
San Diego Album at this link:

http://www.fromthecockpit.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=23

So wish me good luck on my big San Francisco radio interview
and…

Until Next Time,
Maintain Airspeed!
Cap’n Meryl