{"id":1076,"date":"2014-08-26T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-08-29T04:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:28:42","slug":"august-18-few-days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"August 18, 2014 &#8211; Few Days Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My supervised operating experience training\u00a0is continuing\u00a0normally from what I can tell. My SOE Captain is smooth and very fast.\u00a0I am learning something with every flight and continually more able to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with Beverly on my off days. \u00a0For the first time in two months I am consistently able to sleep and feel rested in the morning. I&#8217;ve missed that. Wondering aloud whether or not the stress I put myself under to reach my own expectations is typical, or if I could have done this more smoothly. No way to tell, but it doesn&#8217;t really matter. That is how I drive my own performance.<\/p>\n<p>Went over to check on my airplane, but the prop governor that leaked still isn&#8217;t back. Next weekend I&#8217;ll be doing that flight for sure. They rebuilt my Georgetown hangar and it&#8217;s wonderful!! I dropped the other hangar up north, and that will be a nice savings.<\/p>\n<p>Hanging out at the pool last few days &#8211; and heading north to get my bicycle for more exercise this morning. I&#8217;m liking this hanging out at the beach more. Took a 5.5 miles walk yesterday just to clear the mind.<\/p>\n<p>As for flying &#8211; My SOE Capt.\u00a0told me his only advice would be to slow down &#8211; I&#8217;m trying too hard. Given that, I think I&#8217;m doing just fine so far. I have 20 cycles toward my 100 high min requirement, and I&#8217;m half way to the minimum SOE cycles. Just a few more trips into CLT and PHL and I&#8217;ll improve my performance there too.<\/p>\n<p>Did a low vis takeoff from HTS that I could have set takeoff power more smoothly on &#8211; but the ILS on the other end at CLT was hand flown (I think) quite well after a mismatch in flight directors led to turning off the autopilot. The Capt.said nothing &#8211; so I take that as a positive.<\/p>\n<p>Landings are getting better, but I have to work more on precise centerline placement. I think I&#8217;m going to make it.<\/p>\n<p>Big beach party with another group of friends to close out the summer next weekend. This will be with lots of boats on the C&amp;D Canal south of Wilmington, DE. Turns out that I&#8217;m off for that day, so this will be cool.<\/p>\n<p>Have a fantastic day!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My supervised operating experience training\u00a0is continuing\u00a0normally from what I can tell. My SOE Captain is smooth and very fast.\u00a0I am learning something with every flight and continually more able to keep up. I&#8217;ve thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with Beverly on my off days. \u00a0For the first time in two months I am consistently able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}