Go With It

I was looking back over the last couple months of posts, and the tags are overwhelmingly about the baby. I guess that’s inevitable. This blog is about our life, and the biggest thing going on right now is the incubation of a new human. Still, it’s a good thing that I started flying and that we went to Colorado last month or this page would be all baby all the time. That topic is terribly interesting to me, but maybe not so much to everyone else.

I’ve got two lessons scheduled for this weekend - Saturday and Sunday. I hope the weather will be good for both. When I went to the airport with Becca last weekend, there was a nice steady crosswind across the runway. My only crosswind landing lesson so far was on a very gusty day, and I wouldn’t mind seeing one where I could plan ahead a bit and didn’t have to “go with it” quite so much on every landing.

There was an interesting post a few days ago on a blog I like to read, Flight Level 390. He describes the mental calculations necessary to shorten the descent into Las Vegas on an Airbus flight. I wonder how long it takes to get comfortable enough with flying the airplane to be able to do math like that in your head on approach. I don’t have enough spare mental capacity to add 2+2 when I’m in the pattern.