{"id":3502,"date":"2019-03-17T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2019-03-25T07:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:29:57","slug":"20190317-fingernails-on-my-ankles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"March 17, 2019 &#8211; Fingernails on my Ankles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that suffer from SAD &#8211; Seasonally Affected Disorder &#8211; I can relate. I don&#8217;t know if that is what I have, but I generally hate the month of February every year. I find myself going to work in the dark; driving home in the dark; going to bed early; and not doing much, if any, exercise. I eat too much bad food, drink too much beer, and generally slough around waiting for it to get warm.<\/p>\n<p>Winter continues to hold on this week, but its grip on my ankles is weakening. I&#8217;ll keep walking ahead until winter&#8217;s grip loosens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s getting better.<\/strong> We had a 75 degree day this past week, and I rode the motorcycle to the airport to go flying. Love those kind of days. While I&#8217;m in the funk of winter, I can&#8217;t bring myself to do much project work, and certainly don&#8217;t want to work outside. Now that I&#8217;m coming out of my funk though, I have a ton of work to get to.<\/p>\n<p>Projects I&#8217;m spending time on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Studying for the next jet.<\/strong> This on is state of the art and new, versus the Jurassic Jets I&#8217;ve been flying. I have allot of work to do before I head to Texas and start training.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reading &#8216;Grant&#8217;,<\/strong> about the life of General Grant during the civil war. It is a large novel that is incredibly well written and an easy read. I see lots of parallels in the politicians and newspapers of the time. Neither has changed much in all that time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>N833DF <\/strong>maintenance and improvements\n<ul>\n<li>AutoPilot work scheduled for March 26th<\/li>\n<li>Paint repairs to restore the paint after the restoration process &#8211; April 22nd<\/li>\n<li>Replace Left engine mixture cable and AD Refresh at next maint (25 more hours)<\/li>\n<li>Engine evaluations &#8211; keep running; overhaul; replace\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading Mike Busch&#8217;s<\/strong> Engine book. He is a noted expert on GA engines and I&#8217;m educating myself on how to evaluate my engines.<\/li>\n<li>Collecting and reading articles from Aviation Consumer Magazine on refreshing your engine(s)<\/li>\n<li>Gathering information and quotes on overhauls from noted vendors<\/li>\n<li>Meeting with the next A&amp;P to discuss a path forward (engine monitors, oil analysis, monitoring methods, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exercise<\/strong>: I just took my first walk of the season, bundled up in 40 degree wind. I really need to get back on track, and walking routinely will get me ready to get my bicycle out again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developing a path forward<\/strong>: I have begun to consider where I&#8217;d like to be in a few years. The last few weeks of work has been less than fun, and I&#8217;m wondering where Bev and I will be in 5 years. Contract pilot?\u00a0 Retired traveler in my new airplane with fresh engines?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instrument Training:<\/strong> I haven&#8217;t been flying my PA30 in IMC or even at night since I got it back. My plan is to get everything fixed first: autopilot; paint; and to at least get one more inspection on the engines. After that I&#8217;ll start flying instrument procedures and get my process down. Then I&#8217;ll start traveling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update this blog in the middle of all this; particularly after the autopilot comes back on line.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Safe!!<\/p>\n<p>Frank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that suffer from SAD &#8211; Seasonally Affected Disorder &#8211; I can relate. I don&#8217;t know if that is what I have, but I generally hate the month of February every year. 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