Saturday, November 26, 2011

Day 55 ( 115.1 TT, 40.2 MET )

This was a busy week. On thursday, Aviator hosted a Thanksgiving lunch for all of the students that didn't have a chance to visit their families. Which was like 70%. The food was made by the students and was really good. Now that I have to cook myself, I pay a lot of attention to new tasty dishes.

Did a lot of flying under the hood, progressing through the instrument lessons pretty quick. Started working on approaches, the workload is now tripled, compared to visual flight. Its really easy to miss things on the checklist when you have to fly the plane, setup and brief the approach, and work the radios. Everybody says that I will get used to it, but for now I come home dead tired and squeezed of any energy.

Today I drove to the cape to watch the launch of NASAs Mars Lab, another rover that will once again, surprise, look for life on Mars. It seems like they can't come up with a different mission profile for a multi-million dollar rover. Anyways, I will never get to see a live shuttle launch, so I decided to at least see a rocket launch. Below is a shot of the rocket as it flew through several cloud layers and quickly vanished in the sky.




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