Before and After- me.

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In a few days, I go to Toronto to get my second “hair transplant” surgery done. (Its actually moving my own hair follicles from the back to the front.) So I was taking some “before” photos of myself, my head in particular, that I’ll eventually post once it’s all healed up.

But that got me interested in posting a few Before and After photo collection of my progress so far, about which I’m proud of myself for achieving. So, have a look:


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Hammerhead turn

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I was in the right-hand seat, and my daughter in the left seat. We were finishing up an hour-long session of practicing her skills on a wonderful day of crosswinds. We ended up discussing box canyon turns, and that’s when I finished up by demonstrating a hammerhead turn. (This was in the context of talking about being in a canyon, and converting forward speed into altitude.) I didn’t know it’s true name until later on (from Google), but it was basically exactly like the diagrams show. From level flight at 120 Knots, I pulled the nose sharply upward, slowing rapidly and applying flaps. When speed reached 80 Knots, I began a sharp left turn, which was complete by the speed of 50. My plane stalls around 55, so it must have stalled briefly without my noticing, but by then, my nose was pointing down to the ground, gaining speed again, for a nice pullout, going in the opposite direction.

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Prepping

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Here’s an interesting article that I didn’t want to lose track of. about Prepping for The End Of The World As We Know It. The introduction is quite humorous, “A Guide for Those with Much Money and Very Little Patience Whom Want to Prepare for Zombie Apocalypse But Are Afraid to Google It For Fear of DHS Labeling Them A Terrorist.”

This reminds me of a personal experience. As a doctor, I’m often asked by co-workers for medical advice. One time I was asked about syphilis, and so I googled it. After that, for days later, just about every other website I visitied was showing me ads that were presuming I was interested in promiscuous dating. So yea, nowadays you have to be careful what you google.

Canadian Banks, were-, and still are-, (I predict) at risk.

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I’ve been telling everyone who I care about, that there’s nothing different about our Canadian Banks. During and after the great financial crisis of Oct 2008 to Mar 2009, the mainstream media had been telling Canadians that our banks were safe. It turns out, they were lying to us. see this:

Zerohedge article about Canadian Bank bailouts. ( It says they secretly received 114 billion dollars bailout.)

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BC mountain flying – flight path

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I’ve made the flight from Camrose, Alberta to Hudson Island, British Columbia, a number of times now. Sometimes I file an official flight plan, and other times I use a relative as a flight itinerary contact. What I’ve learned is that changing cloud conditions can make flight plans go longer than planned, while the flight itinerary gives me much more flexibility, because I can send TXT messages from my cellphone whenever I fly over a town, to let my contact person know where I am.

To improve my own safety, I’ve made this webpage posting my route, and the choices I could make to avoid clouds. My ground contact person could then refer the search-and-rescue people to this webpage, to look for me along these routes, if I go missing. Plus, these Google Earth images tell a beautiful story, I think.

My flight begins by setting the GPS for a direct route from Camrose to Salmon Arm, BC.
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