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Captain Chesley Sullenberger arrived in NYC this morning and declared, "It feels good to be back in New York. It feels good to be back at work." Even jaded folks at the news conference, held at Laguardia, clapped for Sullenberger as well as his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, who were scheduled to make another flight from NYC to Charlotte, NC—just one with a less dramatic ending than Flight 1549.

Jeffrey Skiles, who was co-pilot to Captain Chesley Sullenberger on Flight 1549, flew his first plane yesterday since the January splash landing in the Hudson. A Daily News reporter was on the Charlotte, NC-to-Detroit flight; Skiles said, "It felt really good. It all came right back to me. I'm a pilot; this is what my whole life is about." He also revealed that he spent a few days in a simulator (to prepare) last week and added, "Actually, it was my wife who said to me, 'When are you going back to work?' She got tired of looking at me." The filght's captain said Skiles' return flight was "flawless" in spite of gusting 30-mph winds. In other Flight 1549 news, one of the flight's survivors testified at an FAA hearing that bird strike data should be made public, "The issue needs to be addressed openly, not swept under the rug."