Moving the blog

After more than 6 years (and with my blogging slowing greatly the last few years), I've decided it is time to move this blog.  I may eventually redirect this URL to the new location, but not just now.  I probably won't be blogging much more, but it is on a system completely under my control now.  I'm moving the blog to wordpress.clausing.us.  I've imported all my old posts over there, so nothing is lost and probably no one but me is actually reading this so, probably no one cares, but there it is...

Xav 2004-07-02 - 2015-05-01

Almost 5 years to the day after I lost my cat, Smokey, this morning (after midnight last night), I lost my other cat.  Okay, Xav came into the house as Erin's cat, but he adopted me relatively early on. He was just shy of his 11th birthday.

Flight Log-2015-04-12

Well, I now have 2 flights in this calendar year (a flight review and an IPC) and am again IFR current (though the picture below shows I am very rusty and in need of more practice).  Another 1.6, 1.5 of it under the hood, so no sightseeing today.  The weather was finally beautiful, after having the 1st 3 attempts cancelled due to weather.  Temp 16°C, winds calm to 160@04, alt. 30.16, clear.  It was a little bumpy at times at altitude which contributed to some of my difficulty hand-flying these approaches, but the later ones got better.  First ILS22@KZZV including once around the hold after parallel entry, followed by VOR4@KZZV, followed by VOR22@KZZV, and finishing up with GPS27@KVTA. 

Takeoffs & landings: 1
Approaches: 4
Time: 1.6
Total time: 226.0

Flight Log - 2015-01-05

After more than 14 months without flying, I finally got back in the air today and completed a flight review, so I am again legal to act as pilot-in-command and carry passengers.  It was pretty dang cold, temp -9°C, winds 270@10, alt 30.51, clouds clear (at start, high clouds were moving in by the end).  I need to knock some rust off, but Harold (the instructor) actually complimented me on the smoothness of 2 of my 4 landings (the other 2 were fine, too, just not as nice as the 2 he commented on).  Not bad after so much time off.  Next month I'll get an IPC (instrument proficiency check) and become instrument-current again, too.

Takeoffs & landings: 4
Time: 1.0
Total time: 224.4