Really haven't been good at keeping this blog going, well I'll try better.

The club I'm training at have 3 K-21s, a Perkoz SZD-54-2, an Acro 3, and a G-103 Twin Astir. The K-21s are for training and early solo's, The Acro3 for some spin training and aerobatics, the Twin Astir for air experience flights, and the Perkoz is for cross-country training ( Read more... )

30 May

After frustrating weeks of Monday night flying being cancelled, and then not being able to go because I had a cold, finally, I got to go flying on a Monday evening.

When I got there I saw that the start caravan was all the way on the West side of the field, because the wind was Easterly. This is the first time I've been at Portmoak when ( Read more... )

I've had a frustrating month or so. The Monday night Ab-Initio course that was supposed to start on the 25th April did, sort of. The first Monday was just a safety briefing. Things like, "Don't wander around aimlessly on an airfield", etc. Pay attention. The next Monday, flying was meant to start... but was cancelled because of weather. The Monday ( Read more... )

After my flight with Nick K, I went back to the launch point, but by this time things had quietened down a bit. I did a couple of retrieves, driving the tow car when I had to, but walking the wing when I could. I much prefer walking the wing to driving the tow car, I never seem to get the pace right, so either they're yelling at me to slow down, or ( Read more... )

  Time flies, it really does. Today I've been with my company for 6 years, which means that I've been in Scotland for 6 years and 6 days ( Read more... )

As part of my Introduction to Geology course, I needed to go out and try find examples of Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary rocks. So we decided to take the ridiculous doggo and walk to the St Davids beach. The weather was absolutely glorious, and we took a detour up onto the ridge and walked back along the ridgeline through Letham Hill Wood. ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of furlough. I'm hoping to use this time to get to things that I'm always meaning to do, but never quite get around to ( Read more... )

Thursday was a frustrating day. We had connection issues the whole day. My plan was to look at getting the code compiling in a docker container, but I couldn't download the docker image because the network speed was so slow. Eventually, the hours ran out and I had accomplished precisely nothing. Annoying, but that's how it sometimes goes in ( Read more... )

Today was my last end-of-sprint / beginning-of-next-sprint before my contract expires. I work for a software consulting company, and for the last 3 months I've been contracted out to a client who needed an extra developer as one of their developers unexpectedly left. "You know QT right?", they asked. "I've seen QT.", I replied. "Close enough!" and ( Read more... )

Today was much better... started off frustratingly when I couldn't figure out why the month's dropdown box was shifting to the right in certain languages (but not others). But then L mentioned in the standup that it could have something to do with the date format being different (I hadn't noticed on the form that in some languages it's day month ( Read more... )