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December 2008

Captchas for Comments

I really don't like captchas, those images with some letters that you have to type in before you can add a comment on some websites.  However, I also don't like having to delete about 50 spam comments a day, so I have enabled captchas.

I didn't go all out with crazy dots and lines all over the image, so they shouldn't be too much of a pain.  I'll leave the captchas turned on like this for a couple weeks, and then see how how much spam I've actually avoided.

Practicing diversions

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.

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Getting back into the air

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 Smiling.