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By BadDoggie (Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 08:01:34 PM EST) Flying rocks! (all tags)
I was supposed to fly yesterday to refamiliarize myself in the cockpit in order to take bro and nephew up today. As I finished checking out the plane the shit weather rolled in. Winds aloft from the north, 33-57kt! Scattered to broken at 2000. FUCK! I rescheduled the flight with an instructor for midday today and could still take the two up this afternoon, which is exactly what I did.

3.2 hours on the Hobbs, more than four in the cockpit, I'm beat. And elated. Cute pic inside.

Poll: Dilemma which needs input.



My schedule for the past couple days:
Thursday: arrive Tampa around 1:30am on super-extra-massively delayed flights, arrive "home" at 2:30. Wake up at 4:10, log in and work until 12-ish, taking a nap from 8-9:15a.m. Run some errands and stuff, bad lunch at all-you-can-eat-salt-with-Chinese-food-flavouring with bro, then off to the airport at 3p.m. Go home at 4:30p.m, arrive home 19 miles away 103 minutes later thanks to super-extra-heavy traffic on the Courtney Campbell, Kennedy (60) and Dale Mabry. Utterly fail to arrive at camera shop before closing. Get ready for club.

Go to club at 9:15, play original Avalon Hill Football Strategy (ca. 1979), nap from 10:15-11:10 despite 129dB urban music with 140dB bass kicking. Tend bar until 3:30a.m., drive home.

Oops, already Friday. Log in to work, take nap from 7-9 a.m., finish work and leave for airport at 11:20, arrive 12:15, check out plane, ride, practice the crap I suck at. I got the feel for it back really fast this time, and a couple hours later picked up bro and his kid (almost destroying the plane when I came in to land at TPF). I let the kid fly and he had a blast.

My nephew flying a Cessna 172

Bro is calling everyone telling them how the kid was truly flying the plane all by himself with no help from me and herein lies the problem: do I let him hold onto this unrealistic fantasy or do I let him know that I had the plane under my control the whole time with the pedals and trim wheel, along with an occasional knucke under the yoke?

Bro complimented m on the flying, was well impressed and is now considering learning to fly himself. He's now bitching at me to hurry up so we can go to the club. I have to tend again tonight. No rest for the Really Evil.

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Avalon Hill made non-wargames? by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #1 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 08:18:51 PM EST
I knew that, but never felt the urge.




They did a whole series of sports in the '70s by BadDoggie (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 10:32:15 PM EST
All major sports, with blessings of the leagues, though they never used team names or logos. Very good games. I hated (American) football but was good at the Avalon Hill strategy game. Also at the Mattel electronic football which mz parents bought me in the hope that I'd see the light of all deities' favourite sport played in their favourite country.

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ?
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That child by dmg (4.00 / 1) #3 Sun Nov 18, 2007 at 08:29:45 PM EST
Should be LOOKING WHERE HE'S GOING!!!
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Hard work is morally wrong.


Late parental opinion. by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #4 Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 12:14:20 PM EST
Let you brother and by extension your nephew hold on to the fantasy. That way, you'll maximize their interest and minimize their fears. When your nephew has been flying for five years, you can tell them and they won't care.
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