How the Pilot Went Down

As the saga, yes saga, of my dating world continues I have found myself with an empty stable.  I don't like duplicity, deception or dishonesty so the minute I sense any of those taking place I am quick to bid farewell to the offender.
In the world of dating there seems to be so many people who see nothing wrong with lying, cheating and being deceptive.  For example, I have the pilot who seemed so into me.  He was always clamoring to have a date with me.  He would call me at night, text me during the day, serenade me by Facetime when we aren't together but then he pulls the old disappearing act!  This is what happened and you can tell me if I am being hasty in jumping to my conclusion.  He invited me to visit him, he lives two states away, and I agreed.  Well this would have been our third date so I thought to myself that I would have to sleep over and I was not ready to take things to the next level, so I came up with a valid excuse as to why I could not come.  He tried to figure out some ways to deal with my issue but I made sure the solution couldn't be found.  Well later on that night, we Facetime and he played some songs on his guitar for me and of course I was touched by the sincerity of it all.  As we were talking, he mentioned that his charger was left at work so his phone battery was about to die. We got off the phone and about 30 minutes later he called me from his car.  He said he was charging his phone in the car and was going to get gas so that the next day he doesn't have to get gas when he picked up his daughter in the morning.  Well this seemed odd to me because he had never mentioned that he was picking up his daughter in the morning when I was supposed to come over.  In fact we had discussed places he could take me to see until I left at noon that day.  So me being me, a red flag went up and I said, something isn't right here.  I didn't say anything, but once he hung up to pump his gas I text him to say that I will take a shower and he should call me in ten minutes.  Needless to say, I never heard from him for the rest of the night!  I did call and left a message and I sent him two text.  No response.  The next morning he text me and made it seem as though I didn't contact him to say when I was done with my shower.  I didn't hear again from him til close to ten o'clock at night.  I totally ignored him because at this point I had consulted with my two guy confidants, one a pilot himself and the other a police officer.  Both guys said the same thing! He was with another woman and pulled the oldest trick with his excuse about running out of batteries and not having a charger!  My one friend said, "Oh yeah, he's with a woman for sure, might be his girlfriend!"
So today I told him that I did not feel comfortable continuing since Red Flags went off for me.  He was very apologetic about making me feel the way I do and offered further explanations. Needless to say, he is done in my book.  Once that red flag goes off I can't get it out of my mind!
This all goes back to baggage from my marriage.  I used to ignore the red flags and ultimately, I found out that I should have heeded them. So now, in my world of dating, any red flag detected is heeded! 
My advice to you ladies, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck? It's a duck! Don't make excuses or try to explain it away, look it in the eye and face it.