Today is the anniversary of the September 11 Terrorist attacks on New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. I remember vividly what I was doing when I found out that the trade towers had been attacked. It still gives me chills to think about it. It all seemed so surreal — and still does.

On a related note: Tonight on the History Channel there was a documentary called “Grounded on 9/11” about the FAA ordered ground stop that occurred that awful day. As a pilot, I was interested in the details of this documentary. It is amazing to me that in three hours time, the FAA controllers were able to get 6500 airplanes safely to the ground. I was also amazed to learn that there was no published procedure for doing this — the controllers were “winging it” so to speak. It is almost inconceivable that they were able to pull this off successfully.

— Pete