Doug Morris is a retired Air Canada Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) training captain who's amassed nearly 28,000 hours of flight time. To put this in perspective, it would be equivalent to driving for ten hours. . . daily. . . for over seven and a half years!

 

Doug completed most of his training and initial flight-hour accumulation on Canada’s East Coast, where weather plays a major role in flight operations. He has experienced a vast range of weather phenomena not only on the temperamental eastern seaboard but throughout the world. He has contended with Pacific typhoons, ferocious jet streams corkscrewing both hemispheres, space weather while transiting the North Pole, wicked crosswinds at London Heathrow Airport, and low-visibility approaches into smog-prone New Delhi, India. Plus, he has flown into America’s top 20 busiest airports, with many having unique weather. Part of his career also saw Doug venture into meteorology when things were lean in aviation.

 

A certified meteorologist, he worked for Environment Canada for four years as a forecaster — Again, most of it was on the East Coast. Doug has been teaching weather to aspiring student pilots for years.  Doug has been writing the aviation page for Air Canada’s in-flight magazine, enRoute, for 24 years.

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Aviation and weather are his passions, and he hopes Pilot Weather will inspire others to seek an exciting and dynamic experience in aviation.

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“The easiest thing in life is to do nothing — don’t settle for idleness. Learn, do, and experience as much as you can.” — Captain D​​

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I'm always open to email: dougmorris787@gmail.com 

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