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I'm not sure why it came as such a
surprise when the flight attendant stated matter-of-factly in her welcoming announcement
over the PA system that "Captain Brian Schiff
is in command of our flight today," but it did.
I felt like jumping out of my seat and yelling,
"Hey! That's my son! My kid is in charge of
this flight!" I didn't, of course, partly for fear
of being thrown off the airplane. Equally
surreal was hearing his voice making PA
announcements during the flight. The voice
was stronger and so much more confident
than the tentative teenage voice I had heard
on my handheld radio when he called "down-

wind abeam the tower" during his first solo
flight oh so many years ago.
The turn of the century was a period of
mixed emotions for Brian. In early 2000 he

BARRY IS WONDERING if Brian still remembers what he taught him about finding a small

island using the landfall method of dead reckoning navigation. Brian (above, left) is wondering if his father (above, right) knows about ADS-C and CPDLC, and if he knows how
to spell them.

joyfully became a TWA captain (on the Boeing 727). On the morning of September 11 during the following year, he had to explain
to his passengers in somber tones why he had been ordered by
ATC to make an immediate landing. In that same year, TWA was
taken over by American Airlines, thus ending his tenure with one
airline and continuing his career with another.
I became an airline pilot at the age of 21 by dropping out of
school. Sacrificing my last year of college was worth the seniority
that I would gain. Besides, there is no way that I could have turned
down the offer from TWA to join their ranks. (I returned to school
years later and completed my degree at Embry-Riddle.)
I'll never forget my first flight as a member of Dad's crew. After
all those hours of him sitting behind me in the Citabria and gently
slapping the back of my head when I screwed up, it was now my turn
to sit behind him in the flight engineer's seat and slap the back of his-
in jest-a reminder of our early flights together. He even endured my
insubordination when I pilfered dessert from his in-flight meal tray.
Our favorite flights together were to Hawaii, which is what makes
today's flight so especially meaningful. Many of our layovers there
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