Patrick J. Phillips

This began as a book of aviation related poems, which I wrote as a result of learning to fly. But, putting together the content of this book, I realized there was much more to the experience than just the poetry.  I thought it might interest the reader to know why and where my poems came from.

It all started as a result of a fellow pilot asking me how my solo went on Dec 7 1985. I told him I really couldn’t remember much of the flight as I was too busy. His comment that he could still remember his solo many years ago prompted me to put it down in writing. It started out as a paragraph and ended up as the poem SOLO.

Several months later I was waiting for the weather to break so I could complete my Navigation Solo to the northern part of Vancouver Island and it struck me that what I was doing had a certain amount of risk so I decided to write down my thoughts about what I was doing so my family might understand why I wanted to fly just in case something happened, the result was Flyer’s Prayer. 

I received my Pilots License on June 6 1986 and I wrote Flight Test to remember it.

Several months later I met some folks who were trying to get a museum started and ended up as the founding president of The BC Aviation Museum.   

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Patrick J Phillips