Here I sit in front of this electronic gizmo, sipping my 2nd cup of percolated coffee with one sugar and a spot of Carnation 2% canned milk, shaved, showered and shampooed and looking 2X better than the Old Girl...
Well here is a Link which might prepare you for tomorrow...
http://www.almanac.com/content/first-da ... r-solstice
Some interesting information if you take the time to read through it...
Now we here in Canuckland love all Mother Natures Four Seasons equally.
Each Season brings along it's own challenges and a variety of outdoor and indoor entertainment.
Having flown Military, Bush, Commercial, Private and Rocking Chair (Old Retired Rocking Chair Flying Geezer) aviating during all Four Seasons can be challenging and rewarding.
It is when your Profession becomes a Job is when it is time to make the change to another Profession...A Change is as Good as a Rest they say...thanks goodness aviation remained a Profession and a lot of fun for me and our family...
Now this being an Aviation Forum and mostly for a wonderful Hobby or Game called Flight Simulation I will stay within the bounds of Aviation or Simulated Aviation.
Winter for me
Well...-We bought one of the first home computers and I used the program Battle of Britain for entertainment...
-Along came Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and various new Flight Simulator Programs followed up to and including Microsoft FSX...all purchased...
-Flight Simulation at home became a Training Tool when the children were all away at school and the Old Girl was out...Training Tool...that's it...just a Training Tool and I used it during the Winter at home when not away aviating...Practiced ADF and VOR Approaches...etc.
-Flying the Douglas DC3/Dak/C47, the DeHavilland of Canada DHC-3 Otter, Cessna 180/185 on wheel skis was just a lot more fun than landing on a concrete runway, we would land on frozen Bays and Lakes during the winter, many landing areas were unprepared...made for a good horse ride
...they were mostly scheduled flights unless we did charters to set Caches for universities and private organisations doing research work...during the summer we would land on the same area using the Consolidated Canso/Catalina/PBY5A.-Friends would drop onto the strip at the Old Homestead with their Fleet Canucks, Cessna 120s, 140s, Tiger Moths with Winter Kit, several Cessna 150s and 172s on skis, maybe the odd Ercoupe and a few other types many on wheels, skis and wheel skis.
Made for some great Chewing the Rag around an open fire or in the wood heated hangar. The Tea or Coffee Pots were always on in the hangar when I was home, along with an ice box of wobbly pop for those not pilot in command types.
-We flew off Bugsmasher Fields or OFF Strips (Ontario Flying Farmers...OFF) covered in snow on skis, even did Poker Runs and Fly in Breakfast/Brunch runs several times during the winter months. A flying competition was usually held once during the winter...not bragging but did win a few...
-Taking the family and flying onto a remote frozen lake (always nice to have another aircraft and couple along summer or winter) and setting up an ice fishing camp, sleeping in a tent, listening to the wolves, the ice crack, the snow fall off the branches while sitting around a wood fire or laying in the sleeping bag.
Some really good Tall Tales and Ghost Stories were heard and told...
I know a few aviators who would buy Block Time on someone else's aeroplane and go winter camping...awesome and no bugs...
-Now myself, loved to buzz the ice fishing huts, chase snowmobilers on the lakes, rivers and bays, fly low and slow watching the foxes track the rabbits in the snow and these are just some of the Winter Activities folks did when not working which are related to aviation.
-Aeroplane engines always seem to run better during the winter also.
So folks...tomorrow is the beginning of winter...enjoy it...let us know what you do during the winter months...now hope you are not a couch potato and Flight Simming does NOT put one in that category...
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