Saturday, March 15, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
No post since last month...
I'm posting again. Finally. :) Guess you figured that out without me telling you, though.
Currently, I am exhausted. Mostly, that's due to two things. 1) I got around 4 hours of sleep, I think. 2) After having something around 12-15 inches of snow, it was necessary to both shovel it and sled in it. I went with a couple of the neighbor kids (most of my readers know them) and their mom to a hill near here, where we spent about an hour sledding. After that, I helped shovel our sidewalk and then shovel out the van. I'm tired. :)
I flew a couple days ago. Hopefully, I'll get some pictures up here sooner or later, but I had a great time. I got 3.2 hours of cross-country time, and I'm now over 25 cross-country, and up to about 52 hours total time. I need 50 total cross-country hours to get my next rating, the instrument rating.
Well, speaking of flying on instruments, I almost had the chance to do that on Thursday. Nathaniel and I went flying down south of here, checking out the Ohio River. The weather was excellent down there. However, the closer we got to home, the worse it got. I was planning on going to Urbana airport, the next county south, but I wasn't too sure about it, so I played it safe and went to the Springfield airport, the next county south of Urbana. That airport is a bit better equipped than Bellefontaine, and I figured it would be all right. Well, after we got on the ground, I talked with a flight instructor (he's also the airport managing company owner) at Bellefontaine, and he told me to come on back, since the clouds and the visibility had gotten better. We headed on back, but I felt kinda weird--flying 500 feet above the ground, 500 feet below the clouds, and about 130 MPH. Only was able to see about 2 miles, too. :P
Oh well. It was legal. I gained a lot of experience--I now know I can fly in that kind of weather if I have to. I also now have some actual experience in having to make in-flight changes and adaptations. Hopefully, I won't have to do this kind of thing more often, but at least I know I can really do it now. That was kinda rambling. :P
School's been going well, but we're still behind. It's going to take us to the end of the year to catch up. Oh well. We'll get done.
Umm... I'm trying to think of something else.
BREAK
That was all last Saturday. Now it's Tuesday, and I'm realizing I forgot to finish the post. I'll update since then...
Letsee. No more flying since then. Done several tests for school, a couple of them pretty big, and they've all gone well. :) We're getting along.
Sabbath was excellent--most people there despite the weather. Sermons were great, the presbytery update was really good (getting to hear how other congregations in the presbytery are doing), and the dinner was tacos. Excellent day spent with the Lord and His people.
I just got back from our weekly scout troop meeting. The last 2 weeks' meetings were canceled because of weather, so this one had elements from 3 different meetings. A few interesting things--I've been elected the Senior Patrol Leader again (basically the guy that runs everything), which is mostly nice. I'll be training my assistant to take over my job by the end of my term.
That's about it for now. I'm going to find a bloopers video and post it.
Currently, I am exhausted. Mostly, that's due to two things. 1) I got around 4 hours of sleep, I think. 2) After having something around 12-15 inches of snow, it was necessary to both shovel it and sled in it. I went with a couple of the neighbor kids (most of my readers know them) and their mom to a hill near here, where we spent about an hour sledding. After that, I helped shovel our sidewalk and then shovel out the van. I'm tired. :)
I flew a couple days ago. Hopefully, I'll get some pictures up here sooner or later, but I had a great time. I got 3.2 hours of cross-country time, and I'm now over 25 cross-country, and up to about 52 hours total time. I need 50 total cross-country hours to get my next rating, the instrument rating.
Well, speaking of flying on instruments, I almost had the chance to do that on Thursday. Nathaniel and I went flying down south of here, checking out the Ohio River. The weather was excellent down there. However, the closer we got to home, the worse it got. I was planning on going to Urbana airport, the next county south, but I wasn't too sure about it, so I played it safe and went to the Springfield airport, the next county south of Urbana. That airport is a bit better equipped than Bellefontaine, and I figured it would be all right. Well, after we got on the ground, I talked with a flight instructor (he's also the airport managing company owner) at Bellefontaine, and he told me to come on back, since the clouds and the visibility had gotten better. We headed on back, but I felt kinda weird--flying 500 feet above the ground, 500 feet below the clouds, and about 130 MPH. Only was able to see about 2 miles, too. :P
Oh well. It was legal. I gained a lot of experience--I now know I can fly in that kind of weather if I have to. I also now have some actual experience in having to make in-flight changes and adaptations. Hopefully, I won't have to do this kind of thing more often, but at least I know I can really do it now. That was kinda rambling. :P
School's been going well, but we're still behind. It's going to take us to the end of the year to catch up. Oh well. We'll get done.
Umm... I'm trying to think of something else.
BREAK
That was all last Saturday. Now it's Tuesday, and I'm realizing I forgot to finish the post. I'll update since then...
Letsee. No more flying since then. Done several tests for school, a couple of them pretty big, and they've all gone well. :) We're getting along.
Sabbath was excellent--most people there despite the weather. Sermons were great, the presbytery update was really good (getting to hear how other congregations in the presbytery are doing), and the dinner was tacos. Excellent day spent with the Lord and His people.
I just got back from our weekly scout troop meeting. The last 2 weeks' meetings were canceled because of weather, so this one had elements from 3 different meetings. A few interesting things--I've been elected the Senior Patrol Leader again (basically the guy that runs everything), which is mostly nice. I'll be training my assistant to take over my job by the end of my term.
That's about it for now. I'm going to find a bloopers video and post it.
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