Boy, it's dusty around here

September 7th, 2007.

That's the last entry here. Damn. Let's start this over.

2009 is the year I reinvest myself to flying. I spent 2008 with a bad case of the yips, and a moderate case of boredom. While the Cessna 172 I was renting was a perfectly fine airplane, I never quite got the hang of the landings. So I tried out a Piper Warrior. It's like flying a Ford F-150. It's great for what it does, but it is an older plane. I don't trust it much, either.

So, you see that glorious modern machine up there? That's the Diamond DA40, with the Garmin G1000 avionics suite. It is, in a word, awesome. It goes fast, it does it effeciently, and it is just fun as hell. I have every intention of flying the hell out of it this year.

I also plan on gaining as much piloting knowledge as possible this year. On the docket is acrobatic flight training for safety, and probably the instrument rating.

I plan on flying the NYC Hudson corridor. I plan on flying back to Boston for a weekend. I absolutely have to fly down to Kitty Hawk. One thing I will not do, though, is wimp out and find excuses not to fly.

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