Thanks for your support. 

Contacting them was easy. Getting to the right department was even easier. Getting linked into the appropriate webpage was easier yet once the person I spoke to told me how to get there.

No bullshit, no issues, and folks who wanted to help.

They have the NRA beat all to hell in service to their members.

The AOPA is to it’s members what the NRA promises, but fails, to be.

I really don’t care what you did , thank you for your service.

Some of us appreciate it.

For the rest y’all, Remember Veterans Day , mmkay? Say “thanks”.  

I get the call at 1 pm: “Hey, we got an issue…..04N has lost both mags and is deadlined until at least Saturday”.

Bummer. And the other 2 Garmin equipped (which I hate) 172’s are both booked.

“We can put you in a 150, if you want”. I confer with my CFI, and we decide not to go that route.

So no flying until Monday.

I was all feeling sorry for myself, until I found out that the issue cropped up when a dude was trying to start the plane for a checkride. And there was another checkride scheduled after that.

All I lost was some pattern work.

Still, ’twas a bummer.

I knew a dude whose older brother was lost on the Fitz.

He hated Gordon Lightfoot.

HAHAHAHAHA

HA.

Just FYI. They’ve been protecting your country since 1775

I still can’t land for shit.

Fly? Yep. Airmanship? Getting there, but am adequate right now.

Correcting for wind? Easy Peasy.

Navigating? Not that hard, really.

Pilotage? Meh, a breeze.

Pattern? Not that difficult.

Not beating the plane up trying to return to the ground? Yeah, That’s a challenge still.

Were it not for landings, I’d have soloed by now.

Of the 31 landings I have done, 2 were good by skill, 5 more were adequate due to skill. The others were hard, or drifting, or not centered, or too fast, too early, too late, too hard, etc. Any other good ones were, at best, luck.

Tomorrow promises steady winds at 8 from the east. I shall try again to get my “Aha” moment.

Remind me never to buy a plane that has been owned by a flight school.  

Plus, I got nothing to say.

Go read the folks on the left. They are smarter and more insightful than me anyway.