I urge everyone that have the slightest interest in the stuff I’m actually doing over here to read the latter paragraph of the post below and watch the video.

Last few days have been dull and uninteresting, really. I haven’t even flown for almost a week, spending days at the gym once in a while and watching anime. It’ll change soon though, I’ll be going back to Iceland over the holidays to meet the friends and family. For those that want to reach me, I’ll be landing the morning of the 21st. My cellphone should be on and running around noon so feel free to call or leave a message, I’ll get back to ya. Don’t be offended if I don’t answer though, it’s an overnight flight and I’ve never been able to sleep aboard Icelandair flights.

Right now I’m trying to find the best video format to run on my Nintendo DS Lite, so I’ll be able to enjoy some inflight entertainment.

Oh and big grats to my friend Chris in Seattle and his lady Zoe, at this moment they’re about to become parents. Last thing I heard from Chris he was about to take a nap, something I suspect he will not do for the next decade or so. Best wishes to the trio, and I do hope mother and baby will do well.

I finally made the solo flight to Orlando Executive today. 1.3 hours flight, flying N1525F again. I followed Interstate 50 from Titusville all the way into Orlando, but the radio was quite busy so it took me some time (and a 360) to get in proper touch with Tower. I was worried about entering the airfield, with light winds around 040, I’d go straight in the way of departing traffic of runway 07. And airspace class B surrounding the airport wasn’t helping either. But besides some hesitation in communication, everything went smoothly as I joined left downwind and followed some fixedwing (skywagon?) and was,then put down as #3 after a Cessna on long final. There was some more fixedwing behind me so I had to make a nice final doing about 50-600 knots, flare and just touch the runway with the skids just in time before Tower told me to depart without delay. Rest of flight was smooth and uneventful. Besides some slow guy taxiing to park in front of me back at KTIX. Can’t blame him though.

Check out this video I bumped into on YouTube, it’s a 1st person view of simulated engine failure followed by a fulldown landing with the engine idling throughout the exercise. It’s performed on my training airport (Spot 2 in 36 configuration) using one of the helis I fly. It’s a good insight into some of the stuff I do for training, although in my case we recover in hover instead of making a fulldown landing. Bit I’ve done those a few times before. (Clarification: I had nothing to do with this particular video)