This morning finds me on a day off around my old stomping ground of Baggot Street. It's not work you understand, well maybe some work research. I'm on a day off and I was meeting a friend for breakfast. He's back to work now and I'm back in my old coffee haunt. The difference this time, one, it's not for the benefit of my sanity but for pleasure and, two, I'm not drafting this post in a notebook but writing it on the fly on my PowerBook. I love wireless networking !!!!
Busy day today. There was my breakfast meeting, at too early an hour to tell you the truth; I'm going to a briefing on the European Performance of Buildings Directive in an hour or so and the highlight then will be a two hour flight lesson this afternoon. Bring it on!!
Thinking of familiar stomping grounds; I was flying the circuit yesterday and, for the first time in a long time, I actually felt like I was fully in control and on top of what I was doing. I had time to enjoy the scenery, to watch the world pass gently below me. I realised then that I had a new criterion for instructors judging a student pilot's progress. If you're flying a left-hand circuit and the student is looking out the right-hand window, he or she has spare brain capacity. Joe, my instructor de jour, agreed that this was a perfectly good yardstick.
Here's to lots of looking out the right-hand window today - with no instructor to obscure the view!
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