This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck

For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flightCaptain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline’s inflight magazine for 23 years and has answered a gamut of questions. This Is Your Captain Speaking will draw from his extensive experience and explain everything you ever wanted to know about airline travel: whether airliners have keys, why the bumps, what aircrew get up to on layovers, what’s the deal with “mile high memberships”, how to become a pilot. It also provides entertaining anecdotes from air travel’s unsung heroes — flight attendants. It’s the A to Z of airline travel with a twist of humor. The flight deck door will always be closed, but Doug exposes the unique inner world of aviation to the public. Doug Morris has written a monthly column for enRoute, Air Canada’s inflight magazine, since 1997.Doug Morris is an expert in commercial aviation, having flown more than 25,000 flying hours — the equivalent of driving from New York to Boston and back every day for six years, and is a certified meteorologist, working as a forecaster with Environment Canada.Doug Morris wrote a piece about the realities of flying during a global pandemic and talks about hygiene, air circulation, and layoffs.A great read for those afraid of flying who would like to alleviate concerns, or for those who are interested in the inner workings of flight and aircraft.
From the science of weather to the theory of flight, Doug Morris chats about the A to Zs of the airline world. It takes 55 departments to get an airliner off the ground and Doug brings to light all the people involved — with some entertaining anecdotes along the way.