Category: Revelation

Have I mentioned recently…

…how much I hate flying near New York City?

Yesterday, we flew down to a friend’s birthday party. She lives in New Jersey, which places the nearest airport to her Monmouth Executive (KBLM) in the slot between New York’s Class B airspace and Philadelphia’s Class B. Because of that complexity, I decided to take the club’s Dakota, figuring the Garmin 530 GPS would be a big help. And it was.
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This is pretty cool

David Megginson has put together a really nifty little AJAX/Google Maps application to allow people to record what airports they’ve been to, and record comments about those airports. He’s put me to shame, since I’ve been intending to do something with AJAX and Google Maps for over a year now and haven’t even started.

But in spite of my jealousy, you can click the above link and see the 30 airports that I’ve landed at so far. The page doesn’t work 100% correctly in Safari, but it works great in Firefox.

Pilot Blogging World

Disclaimer: I was reluctant to report on this, because I’m absolutely awful with people’s names, and not much better with faces (sorry David). Plus there is the problem that as well as names, there are people’s blog names, and the fact that some of these people don’t want their names appearing in public in anyway associated with their blog names, and keeping track of what details of their real lives shouldn’t be associated with their blog names, and you can see why I was hoping somebody else would write this up. But nobody has, so here I am.
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Beware falling doors

I had a cleaning appointment today at 9am. I went in, sat down, the hygenist opened the usual plastic pounch of various instruments of torture, and then decided she needed something out of the cupboard. She took what she wanted and turned away and the door fell off the cupboard and onto my knee, slid off, and evidently landed on her toe. She said “I just need to sit you up” and then left. Seconds later I hear her sobbing and a crowd of other hygenists around her acting all solicitous. I guess her toe was hurt worse than my knee.

They have rescheduled me for 10:30am with a different hygenist.