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CFR 61.57(b)

CFR 61.57(b)

In today’s installment, I decided I should also get current in terms of CFR 61.57(b), night take offs and landings. The regulation states

no person may act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers during the period beginning 1 hour after sunset and ending 1 hour before sunrise, unless within the preceding 90 days that person has made at least three takeoffs and three landings to a full stop during the period beginning 1 hour after sunset and ending 1 hour before sunrise
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CFR (FAR) 61.57(c)

CFR 61.57

For those of you who are instrument pilots, you know what CFR (nee “FAR”) 61.57(c) means. What it says is that you can’t fly as pilot in command on instrument flight rules unless in the last six months you’ve flown 6 instrument approaches, holding procedures, and “intercepting and tracking course through the use of navigation systems”. (And I defy you to do the other two bits without automatically doing last last bit about tracking courses, so I don’t know why they put it in there.
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Can somebody tell me why…

…the installer for the latest update to Photoshop Elements thinks it has to kill every other application running on your computer? Even bloody Terminal! Don’t they realize that Mac OS X is a modern OS, not Mac Classic or Windows 9x where an inadvertent gnat fart could crash the computer?

More on last night’s kayaking

My elbows are still a little tender today, but not really scarily sore like they were yesterday.

I forgot to mention something funny from yesterday. I got out of the kayak and stood up, and immediately fell over. My entire legs had fallen asleep, both of them. I’ve never had that happen before. I think I have to convince the kayak place to take those misplaced thigh pads out or switch to a different boat.