Librarians and Aviation

Here's a link to posting about my librarian colleague David and his son Sam visiting our flying club's maintenance day earlier this spring!
http://sla-scc.blogspot.com/2009/06/aviation-for-info-geeks.html

Here's me kind of recently with a plane

Over at Borrego Springs on an awesome fun long flight east with Toby in Feb. 09.

RG Really Groovy!

So, I've mastered, enough for a sign off, my Club's Cessna Cardinal retractable gear airplane! Yay!!

I'd always been a bit apprehensive about RG flying, one more thing to go wrong and what about gear-up landings. And while the first point is still true:

1. The SCREAMING (relatively speaking for GA!) speed one gets with the gear up ROCKS!
2. I learned from my instructor and verified that MORE people walk away from RG/gear up landings than from other fixed gear bad landings, because the gear is not there to pitch the plane over on the nose, etc.
3. I know how to control the gear failure by manual pumping and by gear-out landing techniques. Once I realized I could see somewhat out the window whilst pumping the gear down by hand AND that I could look at the turn coordinator and use that data to keep the wings level and the heading centered, I was SUPER HAPPY!
   

Now, on to more steps towards the Commercial Rating! Doing it with Robin this time, fun to pursue a rating with someone who's already a flying partner!

New Erratic Flight Path!

Hi Fans of this erratic blog about my erratic but hugely-important-to-me aviation avocation!

The old blog is still live here:
http://erraticflightpath.blogspot.com/

HOWEVER, I can no longer access it to edit it due to not having my old MSN account any more AND due to Google, oddly for them, NOT being able to find that blog account of mine!

So, I will pick it up again here.

More soon.

Sara T.