It was what Tom calls “a pseudo flight test” simply to check if I fly safe, if I handle the airplane well. He put me up with another instructor – Jim. How did it go? * Starting – Jim made a few mistakes (left the door open, etc.) and I corrected him. Then the plane [...]
This week is turning out to be a row of *firsts*. Yesterday morning, we made our first 911 call. We were sleeping in the living room (we do that soometimes for the view) and at about 6.20 am, one of the room heaters started throwing out sparks. The sparks looked very wild in the dark. [...]
Whaa?? I was dealing with Tunnelblick (OpenVPN client GUI for OS X) and it won’t update my /etc/resolv.conf, so I updated it manually. Now when I got off the vpn link, I had to manually update resolv.conf again. Instead of updating it, I removed it thinking that the system would recreate it when the DHCP [...]
Its been a while since I recorded my flight training experience. Since I started my private pilot training in December, I have logged 5 flights (6.4 hrs) and 3 ground training sessions. There are checklists for everything from pre-flight (before even getting into the airplane), before starting engine, engine runup, before takeoff, climb/descent and before/after [...]
A while back, I was talking to someone at work about the new daylight savings time effective this march. Not many people seem to know or care about this change but I think it can be a big problem if not handled properly. What is it? An energy bill President Bush signed in 2005 would [...]
