I’m not sure how this is going to work for me or anyone that cares to read this but I wanted to start to log some of the things that are important to me in this type of forum. I’m sure this is the way that most people start out -what do I say, how do I write it … will anyone even care?!
In the last twelve months I managed to get my Private Pilots License in the UK – flying from London Southend Airport. I’m now embarking on the next step in the journey, and that is to get my Night Flying rating. I currently fly a Cessna 172 (a four seater aircraft) and although it is an old aircraft it has served me very well.
The last flight that I took was my first 1h20m flying at night. We flew south over Chattham in Kent and then followed the M2 towards the QE2 bridge. I was amazed at the sights and I absolutely loved it – it was a whole new experience from being up there in the daylight. From the QE2 bridge we went and flew over Basildon, Chelmsford and then out to Colchester and returned to Southend. It was a relatively un-remarkable flight, in the sense that all of the flying was pretty standard, it was the whole experience that was incredible. I’m trying to think of the right words to describe how I felt – there was an excitement that was new – was that just the new experience of being up there at night … Hmm … I’ll have to mull that one over.
On the technology front, I have been playing with Google Documents and the Calendar etc today. I am a big fan of Open Office just because I find that it is properly integrated. Did you know that you could upload Open Office files to the Google Spreadsheet and Google Document sites? That worked pretty flawlessly – just struggling with the printing piece, but then in my day it was always the printing piece that caused the most trouble!
I’m going to leave it at that for today. I need to go and make my favourite cocktail – The Caipirinha (pronounced Kai-pi-ri-nya). Basically it is Limes and Brazilian Rum with a little bit of sugar in the form of Maple Syrup. Yum!
