Recent content by Ben Diss

Mebee Sat morning. Mebee just drive. We'll see. I could haul more bourbon if I drive. Prolly the same door-to-door time.

Let's see what the weather does tomorrow. Plane's out of annual. Allegedly I'll even have working brakes now, so I got that goin' for me.

Back from Ground School. Sims are 3-4 week wait. Plane is in annual, but otherwise it's looking good. I'll wait until this weekend to worry about a room.

Yup. Emb-145.

Today I started ground school at Piedmont. I'll get home Apr 12 and then wait for a sim training date. Some guys are waiting 2-3 weeks between ground and sims, so I'm a solid maybe for this trip.

Tough weather at the time. Heavy snowfall.

Started with Commodore 128. Zilog Z80 and CPM. Next was 80286 I overclocked by soldering in a 8 MHz crystal oscillator. Played a lot of MS Flight Sim on that box.

IBM owns The Weather Channel which owns Weather Underground, Intellicast, and a bunch of others. Like most things that IBM buys they're adding a considerable amount of suck and taking out most of the awesome from those products.

I have a slightly damp basement. I run a humidifier down there all the time yet there is a slight damp odor. A friend suggested I get an ozone generator to cure the smell. I did. It worked. I got one way, way bigger than I needed. I ran it for one hour in my 1500 sq ft basement and now two...

What kind of thermostat? No battery in the thermostat?

[blush] I'm gonna try and come, but I took a job flying for Piedmont. I'm sitting right now on a training delay and they project my class will start in late Feb, early March so it's pretty likley I'll be training while you guys are drinking bourbon and singing off-key without me.

I was referring to an FAA test. It's not supposed to be accurate.

I inserted a word to make it easier to accept when studying for the test. "80% loss of climb performance".

Super smart getting the dual mags. Looking good!

Oooh. That's a haul. Especially for a little fabric covered airplane in the winter. Maybe we'll have a warm spell!