What did you do today?

Chukars and two Hungarian partridge. Boru is 10 months so just starting to figure out his bird dogs life so a knucklehead but getting better.

The gun is a 16 gauge Parker reproduction from the 80s.
 
Racerx said:
Was planning to fly down to Tennessee but the weather was too nice and had to play sawyer.

Dad had a hickory that died last year that needed to come down. Plans on making it into a table top.

Being in a lift 70' up is way more unsettling than flying.
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Received a letter from my attorney.

It's been a six year long process, but we just received a patent, and today I got the official "Letters of Patent" which I must say are pretty cool!

So, I took the rest of the day off and cut the grass. Then I logged into POA for the first time in about 8 weeks.
 

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L J Donelson said:
Received a letter from my attorney.

It's been a six year long process, but we just received a patent, and today I got the official "Letters of Patent" which I must say are pretty cool!

So, I took the rest of the day off and cut the grass. Then I logged into POA for the first time in about 8 weeks.
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Congratulations! What did you invent?
 
Early this morning I attended a hangar tenants’ meeting. Well run by the airport director, started on time, covered some new info about changes at the airport, had a few questions with discussions, ended in 40 minutes.
 
Finished installing new mixture and vernier assist throttle controls. Adjusted the idle mixture which was waaaayyyyy out of adjustment.
 
Walked out of church and saw the sky was an unusual clear blue color. It’s been gray for a month now. And there was almost no wind.

Hey! This looks like flying weather, at least to the best of my memory.

Took Milady up for an hour and a half. Nice flight, plane is flying great.
 
MauleSkinner said:
lol, no. They both minored in Spanish, and shared enough classes in college that he was smitten.

For the record, his tears during the vows was what finally got my wife, his mom, and several other people crying at the wedding. :rofl:
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But not you, right?
 
Watched a guy pick a tater out of his ear and then he ate it
 
I grayed out a little, for the first time ever. Flew inverted for about 15 seconds, then pulled a 5G half loop down. The world got fuzzy right at the bottom for a few seconds. I landed to process what had happened. I understand how to avoid it next time. Part of the learning process.
 
Ed Haywood said:
I grayed out a little, for the first time ever. Flew inverted for about 15 seconds, then pulled a 5G half loop down. The world got fuzzy right at the bottom for a few seconds. I landed to process what had happened. I understand how to avoid it next time. Part of the learning process.
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That's pretty intense.
 
Hengelo said:
That's pretty intense.
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In truth, it sounds more dire than it was. I don't want to sound like I'm not taking it seriously. But it was light and short, and after some reflection I understand the situation that caused it. It's not an unusual experience as pilots progress beyond basic recreational acro, and learning to manage it is a necessary skill at higher levels.

Flying hard IFR in bad weather sounds way more intense to me, but many people on here do that routinely.
 
Out with the old and bent up. And in with the new and straight.
 

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I went and played around with this...

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...Until my brain had enough to process that I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to operate this:

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Pretty cool to finally get to play with the bigger toys tho. The motion is very interesting - It feels very real once it starts doing something new, but there's an odd floaty sensation because it's not actually doing what it's trying to tell your brain it's doing. For example, presumably it's simulating takeoff acceleration by tilting back, but it can't just tilt back or you'd sense the pitch change too, so I think it's moving in other ways, but obviously it can't perfectly replicate acceleration when it's bolted to the floor.

Also, the Airbus really is just a big flying computer.
 

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Took an overnight road trip Monday with my wife down to the driftless region, stayed in La Crosse, WI and did some hiking until it started to rain Tuesday. Hit the backroads to avoid the twin cities, ended up at the Schell's brewery in New Ulm, MN on the way home. Walked through their museum, enjoyed an beer, and headed home.

Her Subaru (affectionately "Zubi-zu"/"Zou Bisou") was exhibiting some pinging at low RPM/modest load. It has higher miles, and apparently these are known for accumulating carbon deposits and pinging when the rings get a little "seasoned," so I cleaned the PCV valve and gave it two cans of Seafoam and a bunch of water through a small vacuum line today

Hoping I steam cleaned the hot spots out of the combustion chambers. I'm driving it out to the airport right now and I no longer hear the telltale sound of marbles in a glass jar, so... success?
 
ColinD said:
and a bunch of water through a small vacuum line today
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An almost forgotten art… but it does do wonders when done appropriately to remove carbon deposits despite what any naysayers claim. I must resist going into a full lecture on the benefits of introducing water vapor into the combustion cycle of internal combustion engines, but it is/was used as far back as the rumley oil pull tractors with their 3 bowl carburetor (one for gas, one for kerosene, one for water). The water gas shift reaction chemistry inside the combustion chamber has extensive technical papers and thesis’s from the 1920’s that show its effectiveness and method of action.. but I digress.
 
Right. Absolute worst case scenario, I hydrolock a drafty 260k-mile Subaru engine and replace it for $500.
 
Back in my wrench turning days it was not uncommon to use a spray bottle and spray a mist down the carburetor. Man, the combustion chambers would look almost brand spanking new when pulling the head off. Water mist pretty much eliminated the chance of hydro-locking the engine.

I am unsure how that would work in a modern computer engine with all the sensors and such.

And really not willing to try it on a electric car...
 
GF and I recovered from a five course wine dinner last night at a local restaurant. Celebrated some sort of anniversary or other. Took till ~ 1500 to reach a semblance of normalcy.
 
X3 Skier said:
GF and I recovered from a five course wine dinner last night at a local restaurant. Celebrated some sort of anniversary or other. Took till ~ 1500 to reach a semblance of normalcy.
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Was that five bottles of wine each, or split between the two of you? You might need to mention that at your next medical....
 
X3 Skier said:
GF and I recovered from a five course wine dinner last night at a local restaurant. Celebrated some sort of anniversary or other. Took till ~ 1500 to reach a semblance of normalcy.
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I bet you were feeling grape this morning!
 
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