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Jan. 22nd, 2018 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHappy sportsball, Massachusetts! And happy sportsball, Pennsylvania! (Or at least Philadelphia. I don't know how the western part of the state feels about this.)
Didn't watch the game yesterday unless you count noticing that, along the 0.9 mile route from the bus stop to my apartment, every single television visible through somebody's window was tuned to the Patriots game. I did, however, have flight school, and despite not having flown in a month due to bad weather and a wicked cold with persistent ongoing cough, I acquitted myself quite honorably. The instructor said I did very well indeed, and that he wants me to come in several weekends in a row because he thinks one more lesson of autorotations, one lesson in which we do half an hour of ground school and then a cross-country flight to Portsmouth, and one assessment flight with his fellow instructor are all I need before he can endorse me for solo flight.
(Solo endorsement is the aircraft equivalent of an intermediate/provisional driver's license in terms of what you can do. You can fly, but only under the weather and lighting conditions for which your instructor has endorsed you in writing. You can fly to other airports, but only to other airports which you have flown to with your instructor, and only if the instructor has endorsed you in writing as being okay to fly to them. You cannot have passengers in the cockpit with you and you cannot accept pay for flying, although I think you're allowed to have a licensed pilot in the other seat, but don't quote me on that until I've checked up on it. And you can't fly if the prevailing winds and/or the split between base winds and gusts are above a certain number, which varies based on the aircraft you're flying.)
For rotorcraft purposes I have to have at least ten hours of solo flight, three of which have to be night hours, in order to go for my FAA checkride, which is the equivalent of the driver's test except that it's administered by an FAA examiner at your local airport rather than at the county DMV. I also have to have at least one long cross-country flight with landings at three different airports, where 'cross-country' is defined as a flight of at least 25 nautical miles where I land at a different airport from the one where I took off. This is to demonstrate that I know how to draw up and file a flight plan, calculate aircraft weight and fuel consumption, and most importantly, not get completely fscking lost in the sky. That one's important. You're supposed to take the written exam within a month of checkride time, I think, or somewhat before if at all possible, so my instructor wants me to start studying in earnest. Which is fine by me.
My instructor thinks I can get my license by summer if I put in enough study and some good practice.
Didn't watch the game yesterday unless you count noticing that, along the 0.9 mile route from the bus stop to my apartment, every single television visible through somebody's window was tuned to the Patriots game. I did, however, have flight school, and despite not having flown in a month due to bad weather and a wicked cold with persistent ongoing cough, I acquitted myself quite honorably. The instructor said I did very well indeed, and that he wants me to come in several weekends in a row because he thinks one more lesson of autorotations, one lesson in which we do half an hour of ground school and then a cross-country flight to Portsmouth, and one assessment flight with his fellow instructor are all I need before he can endorse me for solo flight.
(Solo endorsement is the aircraft equivalent of an intermediate/provisional driver's license in terms of what you can do. You can fly, but only under the weather and lighting conditions for which your instructor has endorsed you in writing. You can fly to other airports, but only to other airports which you have flown to with your instructor, and only if the instructor has endorsed you in writing as being okay to fly to them. You cannot have passengers in the cockpit with you and you cannot accept pay for flying, although I think you're allowed to have a licensed pilot in the other seat, but don't quote me on that until I've checked up on it. And you can't fly if the prevailing winds and/or the split between base winds and gusts are above a certain number, which varies based on the aircraft you're flying.)
For rotorcraft purposes I have to have at least ten hours of solo flight, three of which have to be night hours, in order to go for my FAA checkride, which is the equivalent of the driver's test except that it's administered by an FAA examiner at your local airport rather than at the county DMV. I also have to have at least one long cross-country flight with landings at three different airports, where 'cross-country' is defined as a flight of at least 25 nautical miles where I land at a different airport from the one where I took off. This is to demonstrate that I know how to draw up and file a flight plan, calculate aircraft weight and fuel consumption, and most importantly, not get completely fscking lost in the sky. That one's important. You're supposed to take the written exam within a month of checkride time, I think, or somewhat before if at all possible, so my instructor wants me to start studying in earnest. Which is fine by me.
My instructor thinks I can get my license by summer if I put in enough study and some good practice.
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Date: 2018-01-22 02:38 pm (UTC)I always find it remarkable how in so much of this country, the entire city where teams play will drop everything to watch certain games. And now that never happens in NYC. I am fond of saying that in a city with 4 million dedicated sports fans, there are also 4 million people who don't care.
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Date: 2018-01-22 02:42 pm (UTC)I do not think that house's inhabitants accomplished much outside of sportsball and fooding yesterday. At least, not until the game was over.
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Date: 2018-01-22 05:06 pm (UTC)That's so cool on your flying. I've loved hearing how you're progressing with it.
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Date: 2018-01-24 01:37 pm (UTC)