And yes, I understand that in 3 or 4 months, I will dream about days this warm.
Nonetheless, today (and, to a lesser extent, yesterday) is a cold,wet, damp, dreary, just plain chilly day.
BRRR.
Maybe Wednesday.
Just sayin’
Did fly Thursday, landings and a bit of airplane handling. Flew north, turned back and forth between two points, then turned the 172 using only ailerons (hard to not use the rudders after being trained to do coordinated flight) then again using only the ailerons. then only rudders, then ailerons only.
Then back to the airport. Landings. wind was 300 at 6-10 knots, so I got a bit more crosswind landing on runway 27. I’m getting better. And more confident.
Spent Thursday afternoon and Friday rebuilding the verandah at the range with a bunch of other guys. Went well. It’s nice working with men who come to WORK, and bring their own equipment and tools and are prepared for the task. Folks who take direction, but really need none.
This morning, however, my diet is pretty much Ibuprofen, I haven’t walked purlins nor fastened a metal roof in a lot of years, and am feeling it today.
Today, more firewood.
I prefer to slip than to crab, I think. I find it a lot easier at the end.
5 good ones, and one where we miscommunicated and I thought I was stopping but was told to go around. So I rushed and applied power and took off accidentally with flaps. Which I chose not to change until I was at a few hundred feet of altitude. First time taking off with flaps. Came right off the runway in 50 degree weather and 800 foot field elevation with all those flaps. Lots of lift, and lots more drag.
Plus I gotta start my turns sooner. I over shot my base to Final turn twice ’cause of the wind.
And on the climb out at about 500 ft AGL, Bob pulled my hand on the throttle back just a bit, just enough to change the engine note. “Ok, engine failure. what now?”
“Straight ahead over the railroad tracks” says I ..”Nice field there”.
“What if a train comes?”
“Then we are screwed,” I answered. ” We will hit it”. “First ever midair with a train…..”I laughed. So did he.
Went around and landed again.
I need some practice, but I can do this. I finally realized that the runways are (generally) a lot longer (and most are wider) than I need, so there is lots of time and lots of space to land on.
Didn’t fly today, the winds were 200 10 knots gusting to 28.
I didn’t need one, but had been thinking about building an AR-10 as a project, and PSA had ’em on sale. Full lowers for $159, and stainless steel uppers in .308 for $399. Free shipping too…. Hoo-Ray!!, an AR-10 for under $600.
And, while I dithered, the asshole of Vegas did his thing…..and I decided to, as it were, pull the trigger …’Cause I figured there might be a run on ’em as folks stocked up just in case the RNC boys and the NRA kinda chose to knuckle under to the DNC/Bloomberg folks.
I got all the stuff a bit over a week ago, but only got to the range today. What with my normal stuff, the rush to finish splitting wood before winter, the whole flying/Ground School/Study thing, I’ve been busy.
And besides, when it is good range weather, it’s good shooting weather, and when it ain’t good for one, it ain’t good for the other.
Anyway, got out to the range today. The range was all being used at 50 yards, so that is the distance I had to use, unless I wanted to wait ’til everyone else left.
All I had on it were some older pop up back up peep sights for an AR that I didn’t like, but they did the job for testing.
A bit over 40 rounds, 5 at a time. Best group at 50 yards was 4 touching and one flyer about an inch to the left. Not bad for a 10 knot wind with gusts to 25.
Now I gotta find some decent glass. I’d really like to find a 4-16 x 50 MOA dot first focal plane with fine crosshairs and an empty 4 MOA diamond in the middle. I have one on my stainless heavy barrel .223 Wylde upper that is the best scope I’ve ever had, great FOV, great glass, great eye relief, but alas it has no name on it and I got it at a gunshow, used, so I have no idea who made it. Never seen one like it since, but I’d love to have another. Easy to measure distances with, large enough FOV for decent holdovers without having to adjust zero, just a great scope. It might move to this upper…..maybe.
Anyway, I’m happy. not bad for $559.00 for a decent AR-10. I’ll likely spend as much or more for decent glass for this rifle as I spent ON the rifle.
Now I gotta stock up on some powder and 150 G .308 bullets.
‘Cause a woman wearing mans jeans and workboots and a flannel shirt doesn’t make a man.
Yet, oddly, we allow folks with Gender Confusion (mostly men) to use the term “her” when they are feeling feminine that day….or just feel like wearing a dress. Or whatever that day makes them feel like a girl.
But seriously, what makes one a woman? At what point is a man still a man even if he chooses to “identify” as a woman? How do you define it?
At what point are you willing to let them be in a locker room with you?
Seriously. I’m trying to ask the hard questions.
If a man, who self identifies as a woman (that day) is wearing a dress and makeup….is that a woman?
How about if (s)he decides to get some kind of hormone therapy? Is (s)he now a woman?
How about if they have surgery to alter their genitalia? Are they now a woman?
What makes a woman a woman? Lack of male genitalia? Breasts? Ovaries? Lack of testes?
At what point are you willing to let them into a locker room with you and your prepubescent daughter?
How do you define a woman? VS a man playing dress up?
Please, be specific.
You really should click the link and read, as they say, the whole thing.
He’s a weasel without a backbone. Or he just postures but has really sold himself cheap….I can’t tell which.
Rand Paul: Congress needs to be ‘the boldest we can’ with tax reform to compete with other countries
So far, this year, Mr. Paul has exceeded my expectations, if only because I had none for him.