The club also requires that you do the club ride in the “highest level” aircraft that you’re intending to fly that year. So if, like me, you want to fly the club’s Lance, then you have to do the club ride in the Lance.
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Category: Revelation
Work in progress: Statement of Principles
I’ve been working on this Rants and Revelations » Statement of Principles page for a couple of days now. It’s sort of an enumeration of the things I believe, even the contradictory ones. I’m still working on it, so check back for updates. But check it out, I think it’s getting into a decent form.
There will be a permanent link to it under the “Pages” heading on the side bar of this blog.
RAM is sweet.
My RAM upgrade arrived for my Powerbook. 512Mb to add to the existing 512Mb. Sweeeeeeet.
Well, they ran it.
They ran my letter. Surprisingly enough, they didn’t mangle it as much as they usually do.
Article in the paper
Schumer, Clinton see danger in curtailing hours at airport tower
The important bit:
“It’s not a huge deal. There’s 10 times as many uncontrolled airports as there are with control towers, so pilots are pretty used to flying without towers,” said Paul Tomblin of Greece, secretary of the Rochester Flying Club.
“There’s not a lot of traffic after midnight. I’ve been to Rochester in the middle of the night and the controllers sounded pretty bored,” Tomblin said.
What the on-line edition spares you from is the horror of seeing the picture they illustrated the article with. It was basically this picture from our Alaska cruise, but cropped in a bit so you couldn’t see the PFD and spray skirt. Oh, the horror.
Hmmm. Picture doesn’t show on the first page of my blog, but does on the article page.