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BrightLine – Flight Bags for Pilots

If anyone told me two months ago I’d get excited about a flight bag for pilots and blog about it I would have laughed. The reason is simple. I spent 25 years working in high tech and flight bags always seemed mundane and uninteresting compared to other pilot accessories. For years I simply used gym bags or, most recently, my Lightspeed Zulu headset case as a mini flight bag. 

That all changed with my discovery of the BrightLine flight bag. For pilots, this is clearly the most well thought out design for a flight bag. It absolutely reeks with creativity and innovation. And I still can’t believe I’m using those words to describe a flight bag. Apparently Aviation Consumer magazine named BrightLine its Flight Bag of the Year, so I’m not the only one taken by it.

The bag has seemingly dozens of...

Rod Machado Video - New Books, eBooks and Audio CDs

EAA’s AirVenture is the perfect venue for randomly bumping into aviation friends you haven’t seen all year. Even better is having a microphone and camera crew with you when you do.  

Rod Machado is well known to most pilots as an entertaining speaker and a prolific producer of aviation training books, ebooks and audio CDs. I asked Rod about what new products he was working on and he went into great detail on his future books and projects. Of course he couldn’t talk without injecting plenty of his trademark humor, which made our time together even more enjoyable. I hope you enjoy my interview with author and National Aviation Safety Counselor Rod Machado.

By the way if you’re wondering about the two references Rod and I made to “Dave,” he was the cameraman shooting the video. Our sound guy Nick wasn’t mentioned, but let me take a moment to thank both of them for their work.