Trim Tab Altitude is everything!

I am two solo flights ahead of where I was when I wrote my last article, one of which went well and the other...not so well

Exams are over, and I am getting tired of having to tell people I still don't have my PPL. There is going to be a lot of free time for the next couple weeks for me, and hopefully a lot of good weather too, so I'm making a push while I can.

I flew last week with Mark, and did a pre- flight test including two hours of ground material and two hours in the air covering everything I have learned so far. I did okay, but while he is on a trip for the next week or so I will make a couple solo flights to practice my weak areas.

I have been a teaching assistant (TA) at Carleton University for a few weeks now, so I thought I would give an inside view of what it is like.

Spelling is pretty important to me, and I have found many a mistake on all sorts of websites. I would have thought, though, that a large company such as Apple would double-check everything going out their doors. Apparently not.

This semester will go down in my history as the one I didn't take the bus to university. Was it because I was out of the city? Bought a car? Quit university? Actually none of those comes close to the truth: a transit strike. For those who didn't have the misfortune of living in Ottawa recently, here is the story of the 51-day strike-turned-game.

Okay, today's agenda is very simple - describe Web History using my account as an example, then give my personal opinion on its usefulness. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

Mark and I flew around Russell, Embrun, and Cumberland today so I could practice diversions. It was very cold, and I'm starting to think that I will never get a plane with decent heat! The flight was 1.7 hours. Mark asked me to do a mock flight plan that we'll go over during my next booking.

The airport was undergoing a lot of snow removal today since the Ottawa area got about half a foot of snow yesterday, so the tower told us to use runway 32, our longest runway.

My exams are done, and I am going to fly as much as possible, weather permitting.  I flew for the first time in a long while on Tuesday - a rather cold day, but good for flying. Since Unal, my instructor until now, is returning to his home country, I will now be flying with Mark.

Mark and I flew out to the practice area so I could work on some things I will need to demonstrate during my flight test.  I was pleasantly suprised at how much I was able to do, although I ran each radio call past Mark, just in case .

According to Carleton's exam schedule, all five of my exams will be between December 4^th and 12^th.  Specifically:

1. PSYC1002 - Dec. 4 (7:00 PM to 10:00 PM)
2. COMP2003 - Dec. 5 (9:00 AM to noon)
3. MATH2107 - Dec. 8 (9:00 AM to noon)
4. COMP2402 - Dec. 10 (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
5. STAT2605 - Dec. 12 (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM)

Since I bought a MacBook Pro in October, I was browsing the web for tips and hacks for the Terminal program, and came across a really interesting post - how to watch Star Wars via telnet.

Depending whether you're using Windows or OS X, the way you use telnet is a little different, but it comes down to simply visiting towel.blinkenlights.nl.  Here's a screenshot of the movie a little ways in (no, I haven't watched the whole thing):