{"id":2103,"date":"2015-10-24T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2015-10-24T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:24:13","slug":"even-the-downsides-are-upsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Even the Downsides are Upsides"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.\u201d \u2013 On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered<\/em>, 1908<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I spent most of the day yesterday with my instructor doing more transition training.\u00a0 I’m still metaphorically clawing my way toward the left seat from the tail as I try to internalize all the complex and high performance operating procedures.\u00a0 I did perform a feat that qualifies as a landing and not an ugly arrival saved by my instructor.\u00a0 That made me feel undeniably better.<\/p>\n

After we stopped for lunch, we started back around the pattern at Camarillo<\/a> for a few more landings, and noticed that the alternator was no longer charging the battery.\u00a0 We shed load landed and tried to debug, to no avail.<\/p>\n

The fine folks at Camarillo Air Service sent over an electrical tech to try to get us on our way, but there did not seem to be a quick fix in the offing. We had to leave the Viking with them.\u00a0 Their fellow – Harvey – was one of those fine, competent, eccentric people that one gets to meet in GA.\u00a0 He went out of his way to help us at every opportunity, but it was not to be.\u00a0 While I was working with Harvey to arrange for further debugging (and a probable alternator replacement) my instructor went off to look for car rentals.<\/p>\n

And here we lucked out.\u00a0 Nick, my instructor, somehow discovered that Patrick – a pilot who flies out of SMO<\/a> – was on his way back in his Comanche<\/a>.\u00a0 Patrick more than graciously invited us to hop in the Comanche and fly back with him.\u00a0 Even more graciously, he let Nick fly her most of the way home.\u00a0 We exchanged numbers and e-mail addresses and hopefully I’ll get a chance to return the favor someday.<\/p>\n

So, training was cut short by an inconvenience, but it turned into more of an adventure.\u00a0 The Viking continues to be a charmed creature that leads me into interesting places.<\/p>\n

Nick’s off at his day job for a few days and then we retrieve the Viking and I get back to clawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.\u201d \u2013 On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908 I spent most of the day yesterday with my instructor doing more transition training.\u00a0 I’m still metaphorically clawing my way toward the left seat from the tail as I try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}