9/24 C-152 N69011 LOU-BAK-LOU Radar Service, pilotage, Dead reckoning, navigation, flight planning, flight plan filing
Cross-Country to Columbus, IN with Todd.
Last night I updated and re-did the planning for a Columbus flight.
(I have enough trouble with them, that I think I need to just make a blank copy less winds and weather, photocopy it half-done, and practice filling out the "fast" part that you do the next morning or en-route.)
Notes I made:
Then I flew the course on X-plane. Talk about difficult! Flying, recording time, watching, everything at once! I'm really glad I did it. (Altimeter at 5,500.) What's more, I was THRILLED when I looked up from the Seymour checkpoint and noticed that beautiful twinkle of the VASI light in the distance.
8 am I met Todd at AC1. I re-checked weather and winds aloft and filled in the course, distances and asked all my questions.
We left at 9:30, asked for Flight Following, which took us east to 12-mi island. Then we went back NW a little to get back on course.
One of the hardest parts, actually, was using the paper with the plan. I'm not good enough at picking out the pertinent numbers.
Summary here:
Choosing checkpoints: if it's right under you, even a whole town, you might very well not see it, so choose points to left and right. Also, if a town, note shape of roads, shape of town, or some other identifying feature.
Biscuits and gravy at the restaurant were AMPLE and then some. 1/2 order would have been a lot. Frank will like it here.
To file a flight plan, call WX-BRIEF on the phone. Read them the stuff on the back of the plan page in order.
Back at AC1, Zach was in. We three talked a little. Todd suggested that I should do the next cross-country with Zach, which is a relief, because it's been a little awkward. So, that's that. We talked about Zach's new dual headset bag that he ordered (one side for the headset, the other for all the stuff), and how &when to lean the mixture. (Screw the gizmo out smoothly until there is a definite drop in RPM and pitch. Then, screw it BACK to the point before the pitch changed and a little more for margin). Also, on runup, when checking the magnetos, if one of them is not sounding good, turn back to "both," lean it out just like above, and run it that way for about 20 seconds to burn out the carbon. Recheck the mags. If it's not fixed, go back in.
Instrument flying with Zach was on the books for the afternoon.
9/24 C-152 N89933 Lou Lou Basic altitude instrument flying, level flight, level turns, climb, and descents, climbing and descending turns, IFR Radio procedures.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Pilot's logbook
9/21 C-152- N69011 Lou Lou First trip to practice area by myself. BEAUTIFUL! LNDG: 1 0.5 hr solo 7:30 AM TH
Smooth air, fog on low ground, 3? 5? mile visibility. I went to Southern Indiana, did simple stuff: altitude, turns (it felt like dancing), forward slips (without losing heading). Simple stuff. Going and coming, find your way home. All smooth.
Thank you, Todd!
AC1: phones & invoices. Evan's 16th birthday. 1:00 checked out. Todd asked me whether I wanted some taxiing experience. I taxiied 011 over to the new T-hangers (#51) so he could change the oil. I enjoyed being with him in the middle of his tools and all those things he does so well. Tony and Dane came, found more stuff to do.Dane introduced me to the new Champ that lives next door. Beautiful! Then Tony asked me to taxi 011 back to AC1, bring back 933 (which was up in the sky, so I couldn't.)(radio--one digit off)
After I was back, I talked with Zach about the afternoon flying time I had scheduled. He said I should build solo hours & experience.
9/21 C-152 N69011 Lou Lou Touch & Go's. Bumpy, jetwake, tailwind landing. YES!! Landings: 4 1.0 hr.
Winds had been reported as "calm," but the air was bumpy as s__t with thermals and varying winds. ) The very first time around, they gave me a right approach, which I didn't do very well, and just decided to go around and get started better. 3 times I didn't land, but did go-around (bad approach, jet wake, bounce). All the others were OK or good. I touched down right at 1000 ft. once & took off immediately at Vx to clear the trees. One of the good landings was with a crosswind. At one point I realized that they were calling winds @6 knots, and my sign-off didn't allow for that. I thought maybe I should go back in, but by the time it was time to land, I heard another report that said winds 5. So I stayed out. It was worth it to get that feeling of being charge and being able to work with anything that I needed to. I never felt out-of-control or worried. I had a definite tailwind on the last landing.
When I came down, Stephen came out to help me put the plane up. Todd brought me out a cold can of tea. Zach was not to be seen, but as I write this, I just called him on the phone & he was upstairs at AC1. He said he'd watched and the landings were good, also the go-arounds. I put in a call to Frank and to Mike's answering machine. Today is the real solo!!!!
I'm sitting on Brian's porch at Eagle Aviation waiting for the traffic to clear out to go home.
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Now playing: Paul McCartney - Blackbird
via FoxyTunes
Smooth air, fog on low ground, 3? 5? mile visibility. I went to Southern Indiana, did simple stuff: altitude, turns (it felt like dancing), forward slips (without losing heading). Simple stuff. Going and coming, find your way home. All smooth.
Thank you, Todd!
AC1: phones & invoices. Evan's 16th birthday. 1:00 checked out. Todd asked me whether I wanted some taxiing experience. I taxiied 011 over to the new T-hangers (#51) so he could change the oil. I enjoyed being with him in the middle of his tools and all those things he does so well. Tony and Dane came, found more stuff to do.Dane introduced me to the new Champ that lives next door. Beautiful! Then Tony asked me to taxi 011 back to AC1, bring back 933 (which was up in the sky, so I couldn't.)(radio--one digit off)
After I was back, I talked with Zach about the afternoon flying time I had scheduled. He said I should build solo hours & experience.
9/21 C-152 N69011 Lou Lou Touch & Go's. Bumpy, jetwake, tailwind landing. YES!! Landings: 4 1.0 hr.
Winds had been reported as "calm," but the air was bumpy as s__t with thermals and varying winds. ) The very first time around, they gave me a right approach, which I didn't do very well, and just decided to go around and get started better. 3 times I didn't land, but did go-around (bad approach, jet wake, bounce). All the others were OK or good. I touched down right at 1000 ft. once & took off immediately at Vx to clear the trees. One of the good landings was with a crosswind. At one point I realized that they were calling winds @6 knots, and my sign-off didn't allow for that. I thought maybe I should go back in, but by the time it was time to land, I heard another report that said winds 5. So I stayed out. It was worth it to get that feeling of being charge and being able to work with anything that I needed to. I never felt out-of-control or worried. I had a definite tailwind on the last landing.
When I came down, Stephen came out to help me put the plane up. Todd brought me out a cold can of tea. Zach was not to be seen, but as I write this, I just called him on the phone & he was upstairs at AC1. He said he'd watched and the landings were good, also the go-arounds. I put in a call to Frank and to Mike's answering machine. Today is the real solo!!!!
I'm sitting on Brian's porch at Eagle Aviation waiting for the traffic to clear out to go home.
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Now playing: Paul McCartney - Blackbird
via FoxyTunes
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Pilot's logbook
9/20/07 C-152 N69011 LOU-JVY-LOU T&G's, Radio Comm., Traffic patterns, Uncontrolled airport opps, Full Stop Lndgs: 4 TH
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Pilot's logbook
9/17/07 C-152 N69011 LOU-JVY-LOU S-Turn, Turn around point, Steep turn, Pitch roll, Emergency approach, Straight & level, T&G's, Soft field landings lndgs: 7 1.7 hr. TH
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Pilot's logbook
9-15 Saturday night Lou-Jvy-Lou X-wind touch-and go’s, Short & soft-field procedures. landings:11 1.1 hr ZC
I can tell at the takeoff whether It’s going to be good or not, and this time was not. Not bad, but not good, sharp, precise, whatever. Definitely not solo material. What’s the key? I had it last week.
Takeoff: Ok.
To Clark County. I didn’t know the radio frequencies. I thought I’d jammed them into my head last week, but I guess not.
Zach had plenty input on all landings. Not unnecessarily, either.
Red-red only once, but near the end. "Easy on controls, like a baby’s butt." “Where are you looking?” “Look longer.” Airspeed. Airspeed. 30-degree turns. Pattern rectangle was different every time.
I didn’t use the angles & banks from Rectangular Course, and I should have, since there was wind. They weren’t in my head as well as I’d thought.
The air WAS bouncy, “030@5 gusting to 11” (strange). Zach almost caught a bird with his teeth.
I don’t know.
"Did we have fun?"
How many times have I said we have to do something different? Maybe I’ll checkout in 933 next week.
Starting the week off with Todd on Monday may tell me something.
I can tell at the takeoff whether It’s going to be good or not, and this time was not. Not bad, but not good, sharp, precise, whatever. Definitely not solo material. What’s the key? I had it last week.
Takeoff: Ok.
To Clark County. I didn’t know the radio frequencies. I thought I’d jammed them into my head last week, but I guess not.
Zach had plenty input on all landings. Not unnecessarily, either.
Red-red only once, but near the end. "Easy on controls, like a baby’s butt." “Where are you looking?” “Look longer.” Airspeed. Airspeed. 30-degree turns. Pattern rectangle was different every time.
I didn’t use the angles & banks from Rectangular Course, and I should have, since there was wind. They weren’t in my head as well as I’d thought.
The air WAS bouncy, “030@5 gusting to 11” (strange). Zach almost caught a bird with his teeth.
I don’t know.
"Did we have fun?"
How many times have I said we have to do something different? Maybe I’ll checkout in 933 next week.
Starting the week off with Todd on Monday may tell me something.
Monday, September 10, 2007
pilot's logbook
9/10 C-152 N89933 Lou Lou X-wind touch & go's, engine out procedure .9hr ZC
Next time Zach drags his feet, I'll figure he just might have his reasons.
We waited all day for the weather to change, and when we got a good report on the METAR, I showed him. He looked at it and didn't say anything. About a half-hour later I put my books up and went out for a while. When I came back, he was checking something, and he didn't really look at me, but said if I wanted to go preflight, go on out and he'd meet me.
So I did. And we did go.
The winds were not as benign as the report would have us think, and it was cross-wind, but also changing. Anyway, long story short, I certainly didn't feel as if Zach was "expendable," and it was good experience--just not the one we'd hoped for.
Engine-out: if the real thing happened from a point on downwind, (which is where it usually happens, when tower wants a short approach), I'd just make a nice smooth U-turn, slip down to the runway, and put her down in the middle. No tempting trees.
On climbout, don't be distracted by anything. Fly the plane. Door coming open, radio, whatever.
wait 'til level flight to deal with the door.
Aileron correction for drift: Do it right away. Don't be too subtle. The wings aren't going to touch the ground.
Next time Zach drags his feet, I'll figure he just might have his reasons.
We waited all day for the weather to change, and when we got a good report on the METAR, I showed him. He looked at it and didn't say anything. About a half-hour later I put my books up and went out for a while. When I came back, he was checking something, and he didn't really look at me, but said if I wanted to go preflight, go on out and he'd meet me.
So I did. And we did go.
The winds were not as benign as the report would have us think, and it was cross-wind, but also changing. Anyway, long story short, I certainly didn't feel as if Zach was "expendable," and it was good experience--just not the one we'd hoped for.
Engine-out: if the real thing happened from a point on downwind, (which is where it usually happens, when tower wants a short approach), I'd just make a nice smooth U-turn, slip down to the runway, and put her down in the middle. No tempting trees.
On climbout, don't be distracted by anything. Fly the plane. Door coming open, radio, whatever.
wait 'til level flight to deal with the door.
Aileron correction for drift: Do it right away. Don't be too subtle. The wings aren't going to touch the ground.
pilot's logbook
9/10 C-152 N89933 Lou Lou Touch and Go's, short field T/O & landing, emergency procedures ZC
Lots of landings. All in control. I knew what I was doing, and did it. As we flew, the clouds lowered, so by the end of the hour it was going to be illegal. Otherwise, I would have been going solo for Zach, and this time rightfully so. Hopefully this afternoon it will clear up.
I heard from Mike today. He doesn't check email very often, I think. He sounds good--very busy. Hopefully I'll be good to call him soon.
I'm working on flight planning for cross-country.
Lots of landings. All in control. I knew what I was doing, and did it. As we flew, the clouds lowered, so by the end of the hour it was going to be illegal. Otherwise, I would have been going solo for Zach, and this time rightfully so. Hopefully this afternoon it will clear up.
I heard from Mike today. He doesn't check email very often, I think. He sounds good--very busy. Hopefully I'll be good to call him soon.
I'm working on flight planning for cross-country.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Pilot's logbook
9/9 c-152 N69011 LOU LOU t&go's 8 landings ZC
Weather iffy, rained all day (hooray for rain). Zach is really cajtious about rain, so we did an hour of ground school-- planning a trip to Cplumbus. Then Dane came upstairs to check the weather :) and commented to Zach that it had cleared.
Just t&g , but tonight I was putting the plane where I wanted her to be, not reacting. Still, the next-to-last (after Zach said, "I'm not here, you're on your own," was by far the worst of the night.
Still, Zach says whatever it is I've been doing, it's the right thing.
I think I've turned the corner for real this time.
Mistakes:
Pattern not alwaysbconsistent.
One time I flared because Zach flinched (or somesuch small movement) and it was too early. That was the other touchdown that wasn't so good.
Birds.
Coming off runway, need to be ON the yellow line, too close to grass.
Forgot to put the key in the book and figure time.
Weather iffy, rained all day (hooray for rain). Zach is really cajtious about rain, so we did an hour of ground school-- planning a trip to Cplumbus. Then Dane came upstairs to check the weather :) and commented to Zach that it had cleared.
Just t&g , but tonight I was putting the plane where I wanted her to be, not reacting. Still, the next-to-last (after Zach said, "I'm not here, you're on your own," was by far the worst of the night.
Still, Zach says whatever it is I've been doing, it's the right thing.
I think I've turned the corner for real this time.
Mistakes:
Pattern not alwaysbconsistent.
One time I flared because Zach flinched (or somesuch small movement) and it was too early. That was the other touchdown that wasn't so good.
Birds.
Coming off runway, need to be ON the yellow line, too close to grass.
Forgot to put the key in the book and figure time.
pilot's logbook
9/8 C-152 N89933 LOU LOU t&go's 4 landings TH
Early morning on the schedule . I like it. No Kevin. Todd went up with me. I like him. And would like to be an instructor colleague with him.
Early morning on the schedule . I like it. No Kevin. Todd went up with me. I like him. And would like to be an instructor colleague with him.
pilot's logbook
9-2 C-152 N69011 Lou-LOU 9ldgs T&go, short field takeoff, n-flaps landing, soft-field landings ZC
pilot's logbook
9/1 C-152 N89933LOU-EXX-BRY-LOU
Touch&go, Taxiing, VOH navigation, X-wind, X-C Flight Planning, slips, go-arounds
Peter. Todd etc.
Touch&go, Taxiing, VOH navigation, X-wind, X-C Flight Planning, slips, go-arounds
Peter. Todd etc.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
microsoft word-->pdf-->iPhoto-->iPhone
Talk about easy. I never noticed that the Print-->PDF menu in Microsoft Word for Macintosh has a "Save PDF to iPhoto" option.
So, any document I'm making to use with my choirs or whatever, I save as .pdf to iPhoto, then pop it to one of the "photo albums" that I have set to sync to iPhone (such as iPhotoDocuments, or Chant), and bingo, it's there.
If I need to get it OUT of the iPhone to give it to someone, I just go into photos, select the document image, email it to the person.
This works gratifyingly well for all those Word documents I make that have chant and music fonts in them and which are difficult to transfer in their native form.
I'm going to do this with all my music lesson handouts right now.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Pilot's logbook
8/29 C-152 N89933 Lou Lou Touch & Go, accuracy landing, soft field landings
Zach says today we really made progress.
Keep rudder smooth on final.
Airspeed 65-60 on final.
If coming in too low, add plenty power, but keep the nose attitude down, hold it at 65. 65. 65. 65. 65.
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99s are having a meeting at E'town airport (KEKX) at 11 on Saturday. Christine said, "Are you flying in?" I said, "I don't do that yet." She suggested have instructor come, set up a cross-country. OK. Zach can't, he's scheduled at 1:00.
Peter can. He sat me down to go over cross-country planning.
Course, deviation, variation, plot, checkpoints, distance and time, weather for all airports, frequencies, runway lengths, etc.
Meet at 9 to go over flight plan. Make it a trip worth doing.
Frank says, "Go fly."
Zach says today we really made progress.
Keep rudder smooth on final.
Airspeed 65-60 on final.
If coming in too low, add plenty power, but keep the nose attitude down, hold it at 65. 65. 65. 65. 65.
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99s are having a meeting at E'town airport (KEKX) at 11 on Saturday. Christine said, "Are you flying in?" I said, "I don't do that yet." She suggested have instructor come, set up a cross-country. OK. Zach can't, he's scheduled at 1:00.
Peter can. He sat me down to go over cross-country planning.
Course, deviation, variation, plot, checkpoints, distance and time, weather for all airports, frequencies, runway lengths, etc.
Meet at 9 to go over flight plan. Make it a trip worth doing.
Frank says, "Go fly."
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Which Way?
I keep remembering two events from way back in my past--both from High School years. They keep bumping up in my consciousness like a chipped tooth that you can't stop touching with your tongue.
One was being a member of the Seneca HS Tennis Team. I joined in the first year that there was a girls' tennis team (Thank you, Ms. Richardson). Since there were no established players, anyone could join--experience or no. I liked practicing after school, bouncing the ball off the wall of the building and whatever else we did. I only remember playing once in a match. It was at Seneca park, and it went on forever. In tennis, you have to win by two points. I kept getting ahead by one point, but not two. The other player would catch up. Then I'd get ahead by one. This must have gone on for a long time. I remember Ms. Richardson saying something like, "Come on, get this over with. Win or don't win, we need to go home. Everyone else has been finished for a long time." I don't remember who won the match.
Is that what I'm doing with the landings? If so, then the solution would be to get a move on. "S__t or get off the pot," as Mima would say.
The other event I remember is learning to drive. The plan was to learn on the VW Bug, so I'd know how to drive a stick shift. I remember practicing on the long driveway to Girl Scout Camp (now Hebron Ln.) with Mom in the RH seat. I couldn't get that car into gear without killing the engine no matter what. I killed it, and killed it, and killed it, over and over and over again. I can hear Mom saying in frustration, "Listen to the motor. Can't you hear it? You're the musician!" But I couldn't, and we finally gave up. I took my test in the big automatic '53 Buick. Later, everything changed. I didn't practice on the Bug anymore, BUT somebody took our family, all of us kids, to a movie, "Herbie the Love Bug"--antics of a Disneyfied Volkswagen. (I don't think we went to movies very much,if ever, so it was a big deal.) Shortly thereafter, I sat in the right-hand seat of a VW on a long trip to the Appalachian trail. Our CIT counselor, Sparky, was driving, and I thought she hung the moon. I soaked up everything she said and did, including hot-dogging that little car.
When I got home from the trip, I got in Dad's VW and drove it. Just like that.
If this is the key image, then I may as well just get on with everything else and assume that when it's time, it will happen.
???????????!!
One was being a member of the Seneca HS Tennis Team. I joined in the first year that there was a girls' tennis team (Thank you, Ms. Richardson). Since there were no established players, anyone could join--experience or no. I liked practicing after school, bouncing the ball off the wall of the building and whatever else we did. I only remember playing once in a match. It was at Seneca park, and it went on forever. In tennis, you have to win by two points. I kept getting ahead by one point, but not two. The other player would catch up. Then I'd get ahead by one. This must have gone on for a long time. I remember Ms. Richardson saying something like, "Come on, get this over with. Win or don't win, we need to go home. Everyone else has been finished for a long time." I don't remember who won the match.
Is that what I'm doing with the landings? If so, then the solution would be to get a move on. "S__t or get off the pot," as Mima would say.
The other event I remember is learning to drive. The plan was to learn on the VW Bug, so I'd know how to drive a stick shift. I remember practicing on the long driveway to Girl Scout Camp (now Hebron Ln.) with Mom in the RH seat. I couldn't get that car into gear without killing the engine no matter what. I killed it, and killed it, and killed it, over and over and over again. I can hear Mom saying in frustration, "Listen to the motor. Can't you hear it? You're the musician!" But I couldn't, and we finally gave up. I took my test in the big automatic '53 Buick. Later, everything changed. I didn't practice on the Bug anymore, BUT somebody took our family, all of us kids, to a movie, "Herbie the Love Bug"--antics of a Disneyfied Volkswagen. (I don't think we went to movies very much,if ever, so it was a big deal.) Shortly thereafter, I sat in the right-hand seat of a VW on a long trip to the Appalachian trail. Our CIT counselor, Sparky, was driving, and I thought she hung the moon. I soaked up everything she said and did, including hot-dogging that little car.
When I got home from the trip, I got in Dad's VW and drove it. Just like that.
If this is the key image, then I may as well just get on with everything else and assume that when it's time, it will happen.
???????????!!
Monday, August 27, 2007
1-27
Fuel. Bolt missing from tail inspection panel.
Today was hot and bumpy. We went to Clark County to work on landings.
I was early. While Zach ate I watched landings, but there were only two.
The first would have been textbook ZC, with a long, level flare that only gradually went down. The other person flared 35 feet in the air and landed way down the runway.
Takeoff rwy 6. Turnout north. Keep it under 17,000 ft.
Clark County AWOS is 118.575. CTAF is 122.7.
CCT, Cessna69011 is 5-1/2 miles SE, inbound.
Enter L downwind at 45º.
Smooth rudder pressure, not back-and-forth on final.
Airspeed.
Engine out: first turn ok, better to keep it coming on around to the runway, and slip if necessary to come down.
Oil temperature high. Did you notice?
Sunglasses.
Next time try holding it one foot off the runway all the way down.
Go to Clark county tomorrow and watch landings.
pax,
Maggie
Fuel. Bolt missing from tail inspection panel.
Today was hot and bumpy. We went to Clark County to work on landings.
I was early. While Zach ate I watched landings, but there were only two.
The first would have been textbook ZC, with a long, level flare that only gradually went down. The other person flared 35 feet in the air and landed way down the runway.
Takeoff rwy 6. Turnout north. Keep it under 17,000 ft.
Clark County AWOS is 118.575. CTAF is 122.7.
CCT, Cessna69011 is 5-1/2 miles SE, inbound.
Enter L downwind at 45º.
Smooth rudder pressure, not back-and-forth on final.
Airspeed.
Engine out: first turn ok, better to keep it coming on around to the runway, and slip if necessary to come down.
Oil temperature high. Did you notice?
Sunglasses.
Next time try holding it one foot off the runway all the way down.
Go to Clark county tomorrow and watch landings.
pax,
Maggie
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Pilot's logbook
No flight hours here today, but airport hours. I started at 9 at AC1. Drove the gas truck to fuel one of the planes. I also put it back in the wrong place and didn't put the keys where they belong, but now I know.
Peter came in shortly after that. It was his 30th birthday which he was moody about, (and which I have a hard time being sympathetic about) and also nursing a premonition that it was going to be a bad day. No way, right?
Well, he was for the first time acting as "proctor" for a couple of people taking online tests. Other people were in and out, up and down. The power blinked and I had to call Lisa to find out how to restart the computer. Peter got cut off in a phone conversation with a potential student. No big deal--until the fellow upstairs came down and said his test was gone.
The next four hours were crazy. No one could get the computers back online. Bellsouth tech support was worthless. "Our equipment is working. The problem is on your end." Laser-Grade was useless. The people in India were no help. More people came for tests, camping out in the Pilot Shop. Lisa spent about an hour on hold. The airline pilot from Fort Worth eventually gave up, called Laser Grade and found out that the nearest place he could continue his test was back 20 minutes from his home in Fort Worth. At this point I called my brothsr David to ask him if he knew any answers. He ended up coming over, and spent a careful hour with his computer (and his own cannibalized network equipment) and put things right again. Ye gods!
I left there, skipped the Herde family reunion, and went to Bardstown where Youth Choir was singing 5:00 mass. The kids--Taylor, Andrew, Maggie, Grace, Madison--were stunning. They did everything well. Very well. I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light. Go out to all the World. Prayer of St. Francis. Shepherd Me, O God. Qui manducat. Lord, I Lift Your Name on High. (And this is the thing I'm wanting to turn over to someone else!!?)
Peter came in shortly after that. It was his 30th birthday which he was moody about, (and which I have a hard time being sympathetic about) and also nursing a premonition that it was going to be a bad day. No way, right?
Well, he was for the first time acting as "proctor" for a couple of people taking online tests. Other people were in and out, up and down. The power blinked and I had to call Lisa to find out how to restart the computer. Peter got cut off in a phone conversation with a potential student. No big deal--until the fellow upstairs came down and said his test was gone.
The next four hours were crazy. No one could get the computers back online. Bellsouth tech support was worthless. "Our equipment is working. The problem is on your end." Laser-Grade was useless. The people in India were no help. More people came for tests, camping out in the Pilot Shop. Lisa spent about an hour on hold. The airline pilot from Fort Worth eventually gave up, called Laser Grade and found out that the nearest place he could continue his test was back 20 minutes from his home in Fort Worth. At this point I called my brothsr David to ask him if he knew any answers. He ended up coming over, and spent a careful hour with his computer (and his own cannibalized network equipment) and put things right again. Ye gods!
I left there, skipped the Herde family reunion, and went to Bardstown where Youth Choir was singing 5:00 mass. The kids--Taylor, Andrew, Maggie, Grace, Madison--were stunning. They did everything well. Very well. I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light. Go out to all the World. Prayer of St. Francis. Shepherd Me, O God. Qui manducat. Lord, I Lift Your Name on High. (And this is the thing I'm wanting to turn over to someone else!!?)
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Pilot's logbook
8-24
Started out the day at AC1. Ford Trimotor across the field had a lot of people coming in looking for it.
Lisa, Dane and Tony were all there, so I wasn't busy. After a while I pulled out my books to review. Lisa suggested why didn't I study, so I tried.
Too crazy inside.
I went out in the porch with Peter to catch up on VOR stuff. Good thing I did. First I was drawing a blank, but then I got the hang of it again. (One of those and one of the Area Weather Forecast things that I FINALLY got the hang of this morning showed up on the test.)
A little after lunchtime I decided go ahead and take the test.
Score: 92. Check!
Frank and I went to Indiana to get the car from Mr. Proctor.
Check!
Evening--more landings with Zach. It was the first time I've been up when the runway lights came on. Everything was smooth--in slow motion. Zach says you're ahead of the plane when it feels like that.
Looking long down the centerline made all the difference on the first one.
Still, not consistent though. Especially not on the final touchdown. BUT--pattern, turns, and rollouts were mostly VERY smooth and consistent (with a couple of exceptions.)
Thinking about landing, I was intending to concentrate on holding level on ground effect, but I mostly don't remember it happening.
pax, Maggie
The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world. Indeed, it is the world. --LeGuin
Started out the day at AC1. Ford Trimotor across the field had a lot of people coming in looking for it.
Lisa, Dane and Tony were all there, so I wasn't busy. After a while I pulled out my books to review. Lisa suggested why didn't I study, so I tried.
Too crazy inside.
I went out in the porch with Peter to catch up on VOR stuff. Good thing I did. First I was drawing a blank, but then I got the hang of it again. (One of those and one of the Area Weather Forecast things that I FINALLY got the hang of this morning showed up on the test.)
A little after lunchtime I decided go ahead and take the test.
Score: 92. Check!
Frank and I went to Indiana to get the car from Mr. Proctor.
Check!
Evening--more landings with Zach. It was the first time I've been up when the runway lights came on. Everything was smooth--in slow motion. Zach says you're ahead of the plane when it feels like that.
Looking long down the centerline made all the difference on the first one.
Still, not consistent though. Especially not on the final touchdown. BUT--pattern, turns, and rollouts were mostly VERY smooth and consistent (with a couple of exceptions.)
Thinking about landing, I was intending to concentrate on holding level on ground effect, but I mostly don't remember it happening.
pax, Maggie
The difference between one and more than one is all the difference in the world. Indeed, it is the world. --LeGuin
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