More yummy flying goodness

So, another 1.3 hours today or 75 mins in real money. 24 degrees C, 10kt wind across the runway with 15kt gusts. Kinda fun! Also a busy circuit. Denham has quite a small circuit, with rotary traffic coming hither and thither students doing glide approaches and go-arounds leads to good fun - as long as you are on top of your game. Am I on top of mine? Well, 3.3 hours in the last two weeks after a one year layoff does not an ace pilot make but I felt I was getting somewhere today - actually driving the plane rather than being driven ;-)

Also, the local area nav is a little different. Simple procedures really but the first time I do it on my own will require 100% focus.

From the base leg on 06 you get a decent view of the city, Wembly (the arch) and Northolt - my back garden! T'other end is lakes - sweet. Nice to have some variety.

Notes to self:

Don't bank too much on climb out turning cross wind.
aim for a shallower than previous landing attitude,.
1000' out to VRPs and then 2300 strictly until clear of LTMA
Avoid Berkhampstead - corner of Luton zone
Aim for Bovingdon (BNN) and then VRPs for rejoin with RT @ BNN

That'll do for now.

Oh, and busier feet pls!

Less than a year has passed since I last flew...

Crikey cripes, lawks and by jimmeny, 364 days since last flight! I noticed this startling fact after my flight @ Denham on Saturday. It's a sad fact that I left it so long but now I am happy to say I still got it! I think I have some way to go to get a shot at Top Gun though. A little rusty in places but generally not too bad.

Denham is a bit different to White Waltham. A much tighter circuit, no overhead joins, a little more procedure on the R/T and some procedures for getting in and out of the zone via a couple of VRPs as Denham is inside the LTMA. Nothing too onerous - actually quite fun as a new challenge.

More to come this Sat!

Oh - and by the way....

Worst Film EVER (x100)

Snakes on a plane.

Never watch it. Bad beyond belief. Goes beyond "so bad it's funny". Wasn't funny. "Made me angry bad" is more like it.

Post weekend catch up

Man that was a hot half marathon. Completing that race was tough - well done all!

	Finish time	Avg bpm
2008	2:21	171
2009	2:23	171

Well done the (Jenson) Bunsen burner for Monaco - dull race but good result. The question now is not 'if' but 'when'. Singapore?

Right - time for a busy 4 day week.

Yay! Rant time!

First of all - this weekend is the Wokingham Half Marathon.....finally! It was postponed due to the snow in Feb so major credit to the organisers and sponsors for finally holding the race. I hope numbers will be good as the weather is forecast great (too warm?) but it is a bank holiday weekend so will people be off doing other things (like fast Bob?!).

Anyway, I have only trained up to ten miles - fairly comfy but this is the least training I have ever done for a race! I have my new 'marathon spec' sunnies so I'll probably be racing like a 'caged animal' anyway.

Right. This morning. Tube idiocy. So, you get on the train and head for a seat. Do you think the train will start moving at some point? Most non-idiots will hope if not expect the train to start moving fairly soon after the doors close. Why-oh-why do seemingly hundreds of utter brain-dead meat sacks insist on trying to sit down just as the train starts moving resulting in them stamping on my feet and punching me as they try not to fall over. It's all very 'Top Gear' as in - 'How hard can it be?'.....and 'ambitious but rubbish'. Ambitious in so far as these morons leave the house in the morning and try to get through a day without thinking about other humans and expect to not piss other people off. Rubbish in so far as they fail miserably. Morons piss every one off. Member of Parliament morons piss everyone off at the moment. 'I know - I'll make myself excessively rich by pilfering public money...that's bound to remain a great secret and therefore will piss no one off.' Morons. Sack them all. Lumley for PM!

Cretins annoy me.

Misuse of the 'reply-all' button annoys me.

Ignorance, rudeness and prejudice annoys me.

Lacking a sense of humour just encourages me.....*mischief*.

Wah! Google ate my baby!

I have Google alerts set up for various things I am interested in. One of which is Google Analytics. Now, The big G had a routing issue last week apparently. Personally I didn't notice anything - perhaps it was localised? Anyway, the main subject of conversation in my Google Analytics alert was how GA being 'down' stopped sites working. Even the irksome rag 'The London Paper' covered the story with a quote from one poor soul who couldn't use his Internet Banking because the site was waiting for Google Analytics. Now I pity this guys because he is clearly using a substandard site.

Why is the site waiting for GA? In order for GA to do it's thing, it needs to download ga.js or urchin.js from Google...assuming Google is there is course. So in the unlikely event of Google being slow or down

PUT YOUR GA INCLUDE LINE IN THE FOOTER

'course if you wanna get real smart, you'll make sure your site is easily configurable to handle third party system outages. Can your site gracefully degrade or does it die in a puddle of it's own piss as most sites seem to causing days of misplaced whining about Google?

Crumbs, the media frenzy is almost at the 'MP's expenses are wrong!' level of froth...

I'm back!

Having rested for two weeks and got my focus back on home, work and non-running projects I decided it was time to start Wokingham Half Marathon preparations. I'm resigned to the fact that this half is not going to be a PB so I just want to make sure I'm reasonably fit....as in I can finish under 2:30!

In the mean time I want to:

Fly (full size, models and kites)
Paint my house
Build a deck
Get a new shed
Build a gym in the garage
Buy a new flat to rent out
Get all the Google qualifications I can for Moneyspyder
Holiday (twice)
Enjoy summer (flying and running)
Get my 10k pb close to 50 mins