Back online - sane again

Service restored at about 10:00 today, and not a moment too soon. I fear another afternoon and evening with no internet connection would have driven Clare totally insane. Thankfully I had a day off today, so was around to let her have time to chill out and browse the web.
Clare was actually out at a friends house this morning, I was staying in the apartment trying to sort out my flying hours. I've got everything in order now, and have almost 100 hours flying time now. I should bake a cake or something...
I haven't flown an aircraft since last Wednesday. Last Thursday and Friday I had sessions in the simulator, Saturday and Sunday are our Instructor's day off (and also the airshow meant flight restrictions. Yesterday I was scheduled to fly - the plan being Steve would fly first, we would land at Casa Grande then I would take control. Unfortunately the aircraft's ASI was under-reading, and Steve aborted the take off. I have to say I'm very impressed by this - a lot of guys wouldn't have spotted that the ground speed was higher than normal and would have carried on. Steve noticed that we were literally thundering down the runway but with the ASI reading 50 knots. The GPS showed our ground speed to be about 70 knots, maybe more, and he was able to bring the aircraft to a controlled stop.



There was nobody in the Warrior sim, so we grabbed the key and each had an hour in there, so the morning wasn't a complete wash-out. Steve did manage to break the sim (one of the projector lamps went pop) - so that made 2 for 2 for him :-)

Back to business tomorrow all being well. I have 5 flights left to do in the Warrior before Progress Test 2, then hopefully move onto the Seneca. If all goes to plan we'll be heading back to the UK in under 3 weeks... time to order a couple of big boxes to ship all our stuff back.