The Airshow is on Saturday and Sunday. www.camarilloairshow.com for more information.
Should be fun -- bring water and sunscreen...
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Rod Machado's Private Pilot Workbook
Not sure if I mentioned I have a Private Pilot's License -- was certificated back in the mid-90's in New York.
Haven't been Pilot-in-Command in a while, so I'm reading Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook (www.rodmachado.com) to review all the material. He's very humorous and makes the learning fun.
Try this at home -- take a piece of paper and hold it by the top two corners. Gently blow over the top of the paper and see what happens. This is a good demonstration of Bernouilli's Theorem where increasing the speed of a liquid (air) creates a lower pressure system which causes the higher pressure (under the paper) to lift the paper up -- this is the major source of airfoil "lift" because the upper camber of the wing is longer than the lower camber and therefore the air on the top has to speed up to meet up again with the lower. Fun stuff to learn...
My intent is to get back into flying and pursue an Instrument Rating. Will fly out of Santa Paula (SZP) and Oxnard (OXR) in California. He's coming out with another book in September which focuses on Instrument Rating.
Stay tuned to more blog entries of my aviation experiences.
Haven't been Pilot-in-Command in a while, so I'm reading Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook (www.rodmachado.com) to review all the material. He's very humorous and makes the learning fun.
Try this at home -- take a piece of paper and hold it by the top two corners. Gently blow over the top of the paper and see what happens. This is a good demonstration of Bernouilli's Theorem where increasing the speed of a liquid (air) creates a lower pressure system which causes the higher pressure (under the paper) to lift the paper up -- this is the major source of airfoil "lift" because the upper camber of the wing is longer than the lower camber and therefore the air on the top has to speed up to meet up again with the lower. Fun stuff to learn...
My intent is to get back into flying and pursue an Instrument Rating. Will fly out of Santa Paula (SZP) and Oxnard (OXR) in California. He's coming out with another book in September which focuses on Instrument Rating.
Stay tuned to more blog entries of my aviation experiences.
Currrently Reading... GTD Book I (again)
I decided to read David Allen's "Getting Things Done" Book (http://www.davidco.com/store/catalog/) again. There is value in re-reading material, I've found - you pick up on distinctions that may have seemed overtly obvious in the moment, but can be subtly overlooked. His teaching style narrative also magically brings in to my conscious mind - "OH!! Now I get it -- I have to DEFINE and transform my stuff!!!"
A key distinction is transforming and clarifying "Stuff" into intended desired outcomes (which requires thought) and deciding the next physical action (which requires more thought) and then placing the resulting actions in a system you trust. Throughout my former Franklin Planner years (since 1997) I realized I was making lists (without much thought applied after), but didn't have a clear picture of the desired outcome and didn't have a specific next action to work on (but, I had really quite creative lists that filled pages, so I must have been quite busy...). I got REALLY good at drawing "-->" on each of my list entries and re-writing them all over again on the next page.
Anyway, humor aside, I must run and empty my mind, and then decide on the desired outcomes as my next step. Cheerio...
A key distinction is transforming and clarifying "Stuff" into intended desired outcomes (which requires thought) and deciding the next physical action (which requires more thought) and then placing the resulting actions in a system you trust. Throughout my former Franklin Planner years (since 1997) I realized I was making lists (without much thought applied after), but didn't have a clear picture of the desired outcome and didn't have a specific next action to work on (but, I had really quite creative lists that filled pages, so I must have been quite busy...). I got REALLY good at drawing "-->" on each of my list entries and re-writing them all over again on the next page.
Anyway, humor aside, I must run and empty my mind, and then decide on the desired outcomes as my next step. Cheerio...
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