I couldn’t be in a bad mood today if I tried to be. Crystal skies, mild temperatures, smooth air all made for a well-nigh perfect flight this morning. I didn’t go anywhere, but tooled around solo in the local area practicing maneuvers in preparation for my license test (“checkride”) in a month or so. The lack of wind made ground reference maneuvers kind of pointless (the idea is to vary one’s rate of turn to take into account the effect of the wind and maintain a consistent course with respect to the ground). I did practice steep turns at 3K ft and did some stalls and slow flight, the latter being particularly satisfying. The second time I entered the maneuver I set the plane up perfectly and didn’t gain any altitude in the process, just hanging in the sky, nose-high, flaps full in, just above stall speed. Did a couple of 90 degree turns in that state. That made the flight.<\/p>\n
After all my ranting yesterday about the holiday, I ended up having a fantastic time last night. Although truth be told, the activities could have happened on most any other night of the year and weren’t particularly tied to Valentine’s Day. David and I went to a bar\/club<\/a> downtown and partook of the weekly Latin dance lessons. Meredith, Heather and Chad joined us and we learned how to Merengue<\/a>, an easy dance. Everybody had a great time. This may become a weekly thing; we’ll see. But if nothing else it was a nice night out on the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I couldn’t be in a bad mood today if I tried to be. Crystal skies, mild temperatures, smooth air all made for a well-nigh perfect flight this morning. I didn’t go anywhere, but tooled around solo in the local area practicing maneuvers in preparation for my license test (“checkride”) in a month or so. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}