Happy solstice, everyone!
Here in AK we're down to our minimum daylight, 5-point-something hours. The sun doesn't come up over the mountains until around 10:00, and it sets at around 3:15... At "high noon" the sun is only a hand-span above the horizon, and everybody drives with their headlights on. They say that people get depressed because of the lack of sunlight, and I can believe it. It's affecting my brain. Yesterday at around 3:00 as it was starting to get dark, I just wanted to go home and curl up in bed and go to sleep. But sleep doesn't come easily even when it's time to sleep, and getting out of bed is even harder.
I'm not checked out for night flight at my FBO yet... and I'm not sure I'd want to fly around at night here, since there are craggy mountains and absolutely NO lights (or flight following) outside of the Anchorage metro area. I've hardly been flying at all recently, just one short commercial lesson in the past month and a half. There's been a lot of freezing rain recently too. Lack of sun, and lack of flying. Ugh. At least the semester's over and I can relax from teaching a bit.
For Xmas/NewYears, I'll be going to Kansas to hang out with my sister for a week. That'll be good. Get some sunlight in, I hope. Maybe I can even get some flying in, too. I've been looking online for an FBO near my sister's place in Council Grove... someplace like Emporia or Manhattan. Manhattan seems to have a big flight school called "Gatts". Anybody have any experience with them? Or other recommendations for rentals in Northeast Kansas?
--Kath
Here in AK we're down to our minimum daylight, 5-point-something hours. The sun doesn't come up over the mountains until around 10:00, and it sets at around 3:15... At "high noon" the sun is only a hand-span above the horizon, and everybody drives with their headlights on. They say that people get depressed because of the lack of sunlight, and I can believe it. It's affecting my brain. Yesterday at around 3:00 as it was starting to get dark, I just wanted to go home and curl up in bed and go to sleep. But sleep doesn't come easily even when it's time to sleep, and getting out of bed is even harder.
I'm not checked out for night flight at my FBO yet... and I'm not sure I'd want to fly around at night here, since there are craggy mountains and absolutely NO lights (or flight following) outside of the Anchorage metro area. I've hardly been flying at all recently, just one short commercial lesson in the past month and a half. There's been a lot of freezing rain recently too. Lack of sun, and lack of flying. Ugh. At least the semester's over and I can relax from teaching a bit.
For Xmas/NewYears, I'll be going to Kansas to hang out with my sister for a week. That'll be good. Get some sunlight in, I hope. Maybe I can even get some flying in, too. I've been looking online for an FBO near my sister's place in Council Grove... someplace like Emporia or Manhattan. Manhattan seems to have a big flight school called "Gatts". Anybody have any experience with them? Or other recommendations for rentals in Northeast Kansas?
--Kath