For long I wanted to do a coast to coast in USA or around Europe flying my self and enjoy the aviation. Since I’ve finished my PPL, another pilot Ivan Horsky and I were talking about doing the Euro Trip. It went through some highs ( like Ivan almost scored a sponsorship for the...
Read more →I’ve spent last Sunday travelling back to Bournemouth. Met my former PPL instructor Dean who is now working with BFC and we went back in the good old G-SLYN for BFC checkout and a refresher for me, as I haven’t flown since January. I really missed flying and it was a joy to do...
Read more →My competitive nature couldn’t resist the idea of trying my self in archery. Over last few weekends I’ve attended “Have a Go” and then after Xmas break “Weekend Intensive Archery Course” with 2020 Archery. Last weekend I’ve fully joined the club and I’ve asked to also get the GNAS membership. This is exciting, I...
Read more →So … it looks like I’m still working for BBC ( and this is my personal blog and opinions are mine not BBC ). Donno how log but hey, cuts will for sure affect me here.
Read more →Just a follow up on all things FlightComputer mobile App which I’ve developed with Qt. Since last week I am battling Nokia Ovi QA team and publisher web interface. Their instructions for publishing for Maemo platform are vague and whenever I submitted my app they returned it with cosmetics: deb categories – which they...
Read more →It is a while since I came up with an idea that I should invest some of my time to develop apps for pilots. Naturally, started developing some with me as primary consumer. That’s how very crude version of flightime appeared. It was KISS design, 2 buttons and it was logging my take off...
Read more →Last weekend, a day after I have moved to a new place. Decided to go shopping for stuff which I was missing at the new quarters. Like light bulbs , baskets and so on. On a way I to a shop I had a thought that maybe a label printer would be a good...
Read more →Suddenly world around becomes very strange. First Oracle is breaking it’s promise to keep OpenSolaris running. Then BBC Future Media & Technology is announcing more departments relocated from London to North… Now I just received sad news that Wesabe is closing down. So far I see that IT related stuff is going downhill… However...
Read more →I’m back from Europe where I had a chance to fly Diamond DA20 Katana. Aircraft is LIGHT! comparing to PA28’s it’s crazy. Bubble canopy also works great and you can see plenty. It was my first encounter with complex aircraft. It has Constant Speed Prop  what means, no throttle but manifold pressure and prop...
Read more →My pilot license arrived 2 weeks ago. I was so happy that I will be flying now as a Captain! First weekend, I couldn’t go up in the air, my health was not allowing me ( blocked sinus ). Bugger, that was a blow. So I thought about flying this weekend.
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