Routines

I didn't get to go up again yesterday. I was really geared up for it, but got pretty drastically sick to my stomach after what seemed to be an innocuous lunch. I'm starting to see the value now of a set routine, and I may start trying to have exactly the same meal for lunch on every flying day, if possible. Pasta. It's easy enough to cook pasta at home and bring it with me to work, so I think I'll go with the pasta.

It would've been really nice to get back up in the air after such a good outing last time. Not that I think it was a bad decision; cancelling was a very good decision given the alternative. But still, now I'm not flying till Wednesday, which is again almost a full week off between flights. So, back to the bookwork.

I'm learning how to read maps of airport areas, how to determine what the patterns are for given airports, what runways they have, what obstructions are nearby. Obstructions are "things you might crash into during takeoff or landing," like trees, mountains, towers, buildings, basketball players, etc. There is so much reading to be done, and so much to remember; I'm thinking about seeing if anyone at the club wants to form a study group, except I'm afraid I won't have time for it myself!

So, next flight is Wednesday. Then, hopefully, we'll go to Livermore or Hayward and continue our pattern work!