The flight yesterday was great although the weather did not fully cooperate; after a couple of days of sun, the clouds moved in and there was a light rain falling by the time we got aloft. However, the winds were quite light and there wasn’t much turbulence. After a bit, though, I discovered that my weak stomach from childhood was making a comeback and on our way back to the airport I suddenly got very nauseous and lost my lunch… Sorry about that, Rob! Good thing it was a rental airplane! Rob was very gracious about it and didn’t immediately throw me out, which I was quite happy about.<\/p>\n
Anyway, as a long-time flight simulator afficionado it was wonderful to try my hand at the real thing: I got to use the controls a few times to do some gentle turns, climbs and dips. I have a whole new appreciation for the extent to which a pilot gets “seat of the pants” feedback: the feeling of weight changes a lot, even for very simple maneuvers. I’m not sure I’m ready to go back up in a single engine plane today, but I’ll probably try it again soon.<\/p>\n
Last day in Seattle! I’m very excited to move home. I thought I had already shlepped most of my things home, but when I went to pack up last night I found I had no trouble filling up my backpack, two duffle bags, and rolling carry-on. I also have my laptop bag and skis… The airline is not going to be happy with me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The flight yesterday was great although the weather did not fully cooperate; after a couple of days of sun, the clouds moved in and there was a light rain falling by the time we got aloft. However, the winds were quite light and there wasn’t much turbulence. After a bit, though, I discovered that my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}