I think I’m getting there…..

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So my IP pulls the throttle about midfield on the downwind. Says:

“Engine failure, hit the 1000 foot marker don’t land short, don’t land long”.

I make the trim, do the turn, line up final, trim, add flaps as I cross over the fence, and hit the marker in the first 20 feet ON Centerline…. greased it too. 

“Didn’t hit the center of the marker”.

“you didn’t say the center of the marker, dude…., you said “The marker”. I Hit The Marker”

2 weeks ago I’d have been lucky to hit the marker, and likely woulda been off center.

Aim small, miss small.

Not there yet, but improving.

Livin’ the word

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And walkin’ the talk.

Guess who fed and watered all those folks at Atlanta Hartsfield airport while they waited for power so they could get out of there?

Yep, “Hate Chicken”. Funny how those types of folks always step up, and the other side……doesn’t.
Odd, that. 

Now THAT was exciting.

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Went up today, for pattern work. Did 8 decent landings, just not all in a row. 2 bad, 2 go arounds mixed in there.

The highlight of the day was when I had just done a Go Around after a bounce. Climbed out, did a call for crosswind, then left downwind runway 18. Then called the base. Hear another call “Arrow XXXX is base runway 18……”. Which is where I was.. Called and asked him to specify his position…Immediately. . “Base,18”.  I looked but couldn’t find him, and hadn’t heard any other  position calls for him.  My instructor heard the same thing and looked and couldn’t find him. Heads on a swivel looking….

Then his instructor came on and called CROSSWIND 18.  He’d just departed the runway with a call about a Cessna departing, so I am not sure WTF was going on (Cessna is like an Arrow, right???). He was, however behind me in the pattern.

Whew.

Kinda skary for me and my instructor there, for a few.

You’ll notice that they don’t show

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The “normal” light photos of the area….. At least not current ones….
Just the “false color” infrared.

Wonder why that is.??? Perhaps they hadda use Infrared because they could barely tell in “Normal” imaging that anything had been there?

And, of course, one must realize that this is a VERY small area out of how many MILLIONS of acres? about 6 soccer fields out of 13 Million acres.

Hit piece by the Noo Yawk Thymes on one experimental well drilled in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 30 years ago. 

It may possibly have inconvenienced one Caribou. Maybe. for 5 minutes. 

I remember the terrible cries that the Alaskan Pipeline would destroy the Caribou herds and such. Didn’t happen.  Was gonna kill the Tundra. Didn’t happen. Destroy the wildlife. Didn’t happen.

But environmentalists will believe anything if it sounds like it could be bad….and is presented to them in a manner that tugs their heartstrings. 

When the enviromentalists start walking to work, and using only wool and cotton (picked by hand, and carded and woven without mechanical means) for clothing, and stop using any synthetic fibers (produced from oil) and eating only food that is grown, picked and transported by muscle power, not electrical or oil based energy,…..and when they stop flying from coast to coast, and stop using anything made of or using plastics (including their Apple products) and drinking their organically grown coffees that are transported in ships that use oil for propulsion (and trucks too) then they can talk to me about the environmental impact of sites such as the above. Until then they are hypocrites. 

Remember this?

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I bet it makes you smile as soon as you see it.

I’m off to the gunshew to sell raffle tickets for the next gun giveaway.

Last two years I sold two of the three winners.

2 of them to bloggers right here in the sidebar.

Enhance your chances. Buy from me!

Better

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Didn’t make the trip to the class D airport today. The conditions were as forecast.

Stayed and did more pattern work. And did 3 landings the right way. “Do that every time”. Greased all three. Even with the crosswind. I think I am understanding better the energy at roundout.

Then did some stall and slow flight practice.

Then did one more and back to the barn. Got blown off the centerline a bit at the end, but not too far before correcting.

Finally, some progress.