Aviate

I started in on my logbook last night, and wow was that an eye-opener. I hadn't put in any entries since Kaylee got out of school, in May. :O Worse yet, I haven't been posting times real well in my blog either, trying to eliminate some of the boring stuff from there. So now I'm having to go back through my blog, and the scheduling page to see who I was with, and sometimes the time sheets to figure out what to put in. THAT'S not time consuming or anything. I made it through to July 2nd before going to bed. So for my next update, today I was in KS for 1.2 then 19R for 1.8 to MIE and back. I'm not going to have to look up this entry anyway. ;)

If nothing else, all the deaths in the air show realm have brought about a lot of conversation and introspection in the aviation community. Safety, risk, procedures, benefits, etc. Even Steve and I talked about it for awhile tonight. How we feel about various things, how we used to vs currently do a few things, etc. A lot of times people read about accidents and they come away with why it won't happen to them. Another way to look at it is to come away with how it could happen to you, and what you can learn from it. Not these accidents exactly. I don't think either Steve nor myself is going to be flying low level hard core aerobatics, and I'm for darned sure not going to be standing on one airplane while grabbing at another looking for a lift. But a slip, a mistake, something routine that turns not routine...you can apply it to what you actually do and how you do it, inspect it, and if need be make changes. We have, on a couple things...

I was flying along to Muncie today by myself, when the tower told me to keep an eye out for a banner tower. He was pretty easy to spot, with a giant red banner behind him. He passed right next to me, and I extended my downwind so I could check out what his banner said. All that effort, and it was a back to school special of some sort. Phoo. ;)

Kaylee had her first homework tonight-she wasn't too thrilled about that, but she got it done with a little pushing. Math--and easy math--and a harder weather paper. One of the questions was something like "what do dropwindsonde and radiosondes have in common?" Er. Thank goodness for Google...