If you couldn’t tell by the lack of activity here on my blog, I haven’t been flying much recently. Actually, I haven’t flown at all since my checkride in late October. Shame on me!
A few week ago I had a plane reserved and a safety pilot lined up, but we had some thick nasty fog move in I opted to stay on the ground. Just because I am instrument rated, doesn’t mean I am going to launch into Zer0-Zero conditions. As I think I’ve said before, I’ll play it safe for now and work my way up over time.
My main excuse for not flying is that I’ve been getting ready for the holidays and playing catch-up on a bunch of home-improvement and other projects that I had been putting off while I trained for the IR.
In keeping with this theme I was out in the yard this past Saturday raking leaves when I heard what I thought was a neighbors leaf blower. It was a strange whirring sound and I found it odd that it seemed to keep getting louder. I paused for a second and looked towards the street thinking that maybe one the neighborhood kids was riding some kind of gas-powered contraption around the block. While scanning the block for the source of the whirring, I caught movement overhead in my peripheral vision; it certainly wasn’t what I expected to see, but the mystery was solved!
I had a flight scheduled with Nick for the following morning to refresh my knowledge of the Warrior and to do a bit of training with the Garmin GNS 430, and I was a bit concerned as very cold and wet (read as icing conditions) weather was scheduled to move in midday. The good news is that we got out and back early enough to miss most of it, but I’ll save that story for another post.
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