The Generation Bridge Bert Botta We have great age ranges here in cohorts. Yet I see the generation “gap” being nicely bridged Or am I fooling myself, not seeing something that needs to be explored? If there is a gap, what is it? How does it look in how we interact and share our lives? […]

Leadership For the New Aviator Flying Naked: How Owning Your Issues Will Fast Track Your Career! Lesson #1 The things that you’re hiding from will hurt you I started out thinking I wasn’t smart enough to be a pilot Now, 20000 flight hours and 35 years as an Airline and Corporate Jet Captain I look […]

Your life can become richer, in relationships, money and experiences by becoming a good “Connector!” Ask me how “Bert is what Malcom Gladwell calls “A Connector.” He forms many more relationships than most people have either the inclination or the capacity for.  He stays in touch with them, and is influential with them well beyond […]

From: Crew Scheduling Headquarters To: The Department of Crew Field Personnel Subject: Wanted Mostly Alive: Captain Bert “Maverick Junior” Botta This is an All-Points Bulletin on a white, bald, male Caucasian, age 82. The suspect was originally listed as 5’9” tall, most likely shrunk now to 5’7” because of accelerated aging, 180 pounds with a […]

Flying by the Seat of My Pants: An Aviator’s Journey From Hot Rods to God As a kid growing up Catholic in San Francisco, I learned about Heaven. But I wasn’t quite sure how to get there. Until the church offered me a sure fire way. Make the nine first Friday services during Lent, the […]

Just Another Day in Pilot Paradise: Battling Rain, Snow and Ice in the Northeast! If it isn’t bad enough getting up at 2 am in the morning to go to work, we were looking at a 14 hour duty day, made even more exciting by lousy weather and a poor aircraft anti-ice design for the […]

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Dead Men Not Talking© Four guys at breakfast, all at the same table, each reading a newspaper; backs turned away from each other as if they were carrying a mutual grudge or had been offended by the mere presence of one another. They were oblivious to anything but the bright colors of the USA Today […]

“Just Don’t Be Yourself!”   INTRODUCTION What do you mean, “Just don’t be yourself!?” That’s ridiculous! You know that everyone tells you to “just be yourself” when you’re trying to figure something out and you don’t know what to do! Maybe this story about Henry the Nerd will help explain why “just being yourself” isn’t […]

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