Bert Botta 415-320-9811 Email: botajet@mac.com www.bertbotta.com Aviation International News, May 2012 An Aviator Comes Full Circle It had been a routine flight, right up to the moment that the copilot dialed 24000 feet into the altitude pre-select window and we started our descent. As I rolled the vertical speed wheel into a nose down command, […]

My podcasts will be up and running in a few weeks. I’ll be interviewing men, extraordinary men, whose lives have a lot to teach us. You’ll be moved, inspired and motivated to learn from and apply what you learn from these men.

The Legacy Process: Your Story Needs to be Told! The Legacy Process We all know us guys don’t talk about ourselves right!?  Generally speaking we’re pretty tight-lipped about our lives, our accomplishments, the stuff that we’re really good at, our failures, pretty much everything that our loved ones want to know about us.  I call […]

How to Improve Your Chances of Not Getting a Heart Attack! This is an interview I did a couple of years ago that’s still relevant. It talks about the powerful impact of having emotionally and spiritually healthy men in your life. It kicks in around 08:00 and gets rolling around 09:00.

ROP – Retired Old Pilot – Hangs with Private Jet PIlots! For a long time I compared myself to other guys, especially pilots, who were better than me at just about everything my own mind could come up with! Mostly guys who were better than me at math and science. But then I thought about […]

Secrets of a Modern Day Flight Attendant   Shhh! These are the innermost secrets of a modern day flight attendant. It’s not a quick read. But if you have time you need to know this stuff because it’s something that anyone who flies regularly needs to fully appreciate what the flight attendant who has your […]

Airline Pilot Wannabes, Don’t Lose Hope! It was August, 1966. I had a massive 180 hours in my little black log book, the ink wasn’t even dry on my instrument ticket and I was headed back to Kansas City, Missouri to be interviewed for a Flight Officer position at TWA. If I got past the […]

Retired Pilot Adventure Travel: The Right to Fight for a Seat! The Definition of Non-Rev Adventure Travel? Pay No Money, Fight Your Way to the Front of the Line to Be Seen by the Boarding Agent and Pray for a Seat! As a former pilot and aviation copywriter with a passion for the kind of […]

Checklist for a Pilot’s Life As a former airline and corporate pilot, I lived by checklists. They kept me out of trouble when I thought I could handle everything because I was so good and “didn’t need no stinking’ checklists!” Checklists saved my bacon more than once. Here’s a short article, a checklist if you […]