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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Category: Revelation
Ooooh, pretty
My favourite computer accessory store, FrozenCPU.com, now sells PolyGFX Case Skins to customize your case. Even better, they’ll let you submit your own imagery and they’ll print you up a custom case skin.
I’ve never been all that tempted by some of the “Pimp My Box” stuff like cold cathode tubes or water cooling systems, but I’m sorely tempted by this. My gigantic Linux full tower sits up on my desk to keep it from getting clogged with dust, but it’s sort of overwhelming there.
I’ve been playing around a bit with Photoshop Elements to make a couple of candidate images. Here are a couple of small copies of the huge images I’ve made: Early morning departure and Clouds
The originals are 49 inches by 17 inches at 300 pixels per inch, so they’re pretty damn huge. I’m not going to stress my cable modem by putting links to them here.
It’s so nice to renew your medical…
In the aftermath
A couple of people have already asked me how I can feel safe flying if somebody of Bill Law’s years of experience can crash. A guy I know wrote this response to similar questions. It’s not exactly what I would have written, but it’s pretty close.
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Last Weekend, Part #2 – Ottawa to Ladysmith
I already wrote about flying from Rochester to Ottawa in a previous blog entry. The rest of the trip was a lot more of an adventure in some ways.
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