I've purchased and begun to read Helmut Reichman's "Cross-Country Soaring" on the recommendation of one of our instructors. I'm getting brushed up for my adventures in cross country soaring this summer. I'm excited about finally cutting the purse strings but also mindful of the risk it can entail. I'll try to be as conservative as I can and learn the ropes slowly.
My soaring goal is to get checked out in the Discus single seat glider this year and fly it enough to feel confident enough to take it out when I want to fly cross country. I'm also intending to fly commercial passengers whenever the opportunity presents. It will improve my skills and cost me no money at all. That's what I got it for!
A new job for me
Our previous webmaster did it for 12 years -MORE than enough time! And now its my turn to help out. I've started from scratch and will try to use the current site to feed content into the new one while streamlining it a bit and trying to make everything easy to find, blah, blah, blah.
So far, I've got test pages for the main page and the passenger rides page. Probably two of the most important ones to get the season going. I'll run them by the powers that be and get feedback from them to get it right.
RASP
Rasp works, but I'm still struggling with getting the results posted on the web. I'm managing to make SLOW progress solving the various issues and problems of the web world and I've almost completed the local processing and machinations it takes to get the files into a format that you can depict them.
Then, comes figuring out the web side to get the files to display. Again, slow and steady wins the race. Thank goodness. This project has occupied me basically all winter.
Facebook
I'm the Facebook administrator for the HHSC Facebook page. It's fun and we've gathered a few 'likes'. Hopefully we'll get a few more as they discover us. I try to post one or two things there every day or so.
