Trim Tab Altitude is everything!

I have the amazing fortune to live across the street from a couple, both pilots, who own a plane (PA-28 - see pictures) and invite me for flights occasionally. We have flown to Morrisburg and Pembroke, and this weekend Mike asked me if I was interested in going to the Canadian Aviation Expo being held in Hamilton. You're reading this, so obviously I eagerly accepted.

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

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.

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.

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.

I own prtfw.com and prtfw.ca, and would be willing to sell them.  PRTFW is an acronymn that any pilot would recognize instantly.  If you are interested, or have questions, please use my contact form.

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 .