Yeah, maybe not so much:

Man who claimed the world would end on Sept 23 2017 says “NeverMind”.

Huh, Imagine that.

So today there was NO wind. Zero. Calm.

So no Turns around a Point, no S-Turns. Kinda woulda been pointless.

So, instead, I got briefed on how to deal with an Engine Out Situation.

Then I took off and flew south to the “Practice Area”  and we went over the procedures again.

Then Mike demonstrated.

My turn.

3K feet (~2200 AGL) gives (more or less) 3.5 miles of glide.

Pull power back.

Pick a field
navigate towards it while:

Do you checks. Fuel, mags, etc.

Make your radio call.

Set up for landing.

Lots of time. And yet not much either.

So I did it twice. THought I was comfortable,

Did some stalls. Power Off and Power On.

Started back to the airport. Was about 3 miles away, just ready to make my first radio call when the power went away.

Mike says: “you have just lost your engine”.

I looked over at him while trimming for 65 KIAS. “Prick”.

And chose a (soybean) field.
Did the procedure.

and realized as I began my approach that the field I had chosen had a linear sprinkler across it.

Fuck. That woulda been bad.

But, I added power, climbed to 1700′ and entered the pattern and did a really nice landing.

Plus, my Taxiing is better. Still needs work, but better.

He says I’m the first student to call him bad names, ever.

Are we really supposed to think that this isn’t a propaganda campaign? That the News Media isn’t conspiring to set or change public opinion? That they aren’t a propaganda arm of the DNC?

Zuckerberg is gonna show us ads that “might have” had “Russian influence”.

This a day after the media gave Hillary a tour so she could give us her version of how she thinks the election should have gone.

And the nighttime talk shows all had either Hillary on their show or had commentary….and said shows got commentary on the morning news shows so there was even MORE coverage.

It is, all about the meme.

And since the “Russian influence” meme died, they are trying to resurrect it.

And the News Media wonders why they have no credibility anymore.

Hillary seems to be like a Zombie. No matter what you shoot her with, she still gets up and comes at you again.
Perhaps someone needs to shoot her in the head. I am told that is the only way to kill Zombies.

Now, to clear my head of this propaganda, as soon as the fog lifts, I’m gonna go fly.

Pretty much, today is the day that they gotta find you if you are trapped by debris from the earthquake in Mexico.

Yes, some folks like longer, but, statistically, if they don’t find you today, alive, then they will find you later, dead.

Say a prayer for all those folks in Mexico.

Fog this AM, but it burned off by 9, so I showed up at quarter to 10 and preflighted the 172. When my instructor showed at 5 ’til, we had a short instruction period and then we took off on Runway 18 and flew south.

More stalls, (the 172 is harder to stall than the 150 and better behaved when it does) both power off and power on, then S-turns, which were kinda hard to do because the wind was variable and gusting. I got it right at the end, but the wind was causing me issues for most of the turns.

One approach with a go around and then one landing. I still need more practice taxiing.

I am, however, getting more comfortable and some stuff, like holding altitude and heading is easier and more automatic now. Less thinking, as it were.

I think I am getting this, if slowly. 

That pretty much covers it.

Now go forth and do better in the next election(s).

And please, stop giving Hillary any credence.

Chicago (thank GOD I don’t live there, but I do get their TV and radio) has a Beverage Tax. Something like a penny per ounce of sweetened soda…or sports drink. Or Tea. Or any beverage that uses sweetener.

The tax was sold as a way to reduce obesity. But now that folks are bitching complaining about their increased soda cost to their local Councilpersonages demanding a repeal of the tax,  there is a concerted push to convince folks that the hotfoot they are getting is, after all, in their best interest….all “paid for by none other than Michael Bloomberg”. Which I find odd, ’cause he isn’t (AFAICT) a part of the Chicago Political Machine….and he is spending HUGE money buying ad time on radio, TV Newspapers, billboards, etc.

What is he getting out of it. Where is his payoff payback? He’s investing tens of millions, and I doubt that is is just because he really thinks that the tax will really prevent heart disease, kidney disease, obesity, diabetes and halitosis.

Is this just Social Engineering? I mean, the Cook County politicians never met a tax they didn’t like, and they need the money so they can keep lining the pockets of their friends and relatives the City from going broke…..Without it, they will have to lay off something like 1 in 5 useless workers…All of whom vote.

But how/where does Michael Bloomberg come to this party?

I mean, if cotton causes her to freak out, does she only wear artificial fibers?

Or does she wear jeans? T-shirts. Does she sleep only on bamboo sheets. Rayon? Nylon? Does she wear blouses and shirts made from any natural fiber like linen?
‘Cause linen and cotton were picked by slaves…In her world cotton is offensive, and I am sure linen would be too if she knew what it looked like.
How about leather shoes and belts and jackets? Slaves raised cattle too.

So,  again, is she wearing and using only rayon, nylon and polyester?

Or is it only cotton…. ’cause she was raised and educated that slaves picked cotton….and she is trying so desperately to find something to be offended by?

At some point someone needs to just bitch-slap these folks.

Stalls are FUN! Easy too.

No landing yet, but did several smoother descents and one approach.

I’m getting much smoother with the controls and some things are becoming automatic. Seems as if my workload is decreasing.

Starting to really like this.

ETA: Oh, and I made my first radio call on Unicom today.

So in St Louis there are protests over the acquittal of a police officer for shooting a black dude. Now, the community waited since 2011 for “justice”. It does appear that there was evidence planting and some other shennanigans. But Anthony Smith was no angel either, so there is room for doubt both ways, really.

The protests there,  as protests do, turned violent. Yet the organizers claim that THEY are peaceful and that the violence was perpetrated by “a group of agitators”….And the media is pushing this story.

Of course, when it was right leaning protestors, the entire group was castigated for violence, even though it also was blamed on an outside group of agitators….but that was given no credence by the left leaning media.