What's new...

• I'm still waiting for FSX SP1... I'm really impatient to see what the FS team has improved in FS!
• Still having a lot of fun in the Citabria... But I realized that this tailwheel fun made me lose currencies on the Cessna 152 and PA28-181... That's really a shame... Oh well, I'll take a flight with Cory to fix this hehe...
• Preparing for my US License... I think I'll pass the check ride on a Cessna 152... Less stuff to take care of than in the Pipers...
• Not a lot of work with FSP lately... I was sick for the past couple of weeks, and not really in the mood for coding... I've worked on a few other coding projects though...
• Still watching the latest season of 24... which is becoming lamer and lamer every episode I watch... I guess I'm getting tired of all the exploding SD Cards, crazy presidents, impossible tech-hacks to fill for the lack of imagination of the writters...
• Still hooked up on Prison Break, which might be the best Action TV-Show I've ever seen!
• Just turned 26... And according to Julie, it's time to think about these anti-wrinckles creame... lovely! =)
• After almost 7 years of flying, I finally decided to start an electronic log book... I'm using an Excel file based of a template I've found on the Internet. It's really nice to count the hours easily now and cross reference stuff here and there =)
  Though, I have to say that I really hate the way we report hours on log books in France. It's hour/minutes based... which is a REAL PAIN to add!!
  In the US, it's fractions of hours... (1.2 Hour = 01:12, 2.5 Hours = 2:30...) So it's much easier to add up!
  Up until a few months ago, I was still converting from decimal to stupid hours and minutes but I've stopped... My log book is now all in decimals...
• Weather is still great in CA, I've started biking again. There is a nice trail next to my place that goes all the way up to San Jose airport. It's fun to bike there... Let's see if I can keep this up...
• Last week, I went boating with a friend from work. It was the first time I ever went on a boat like this! After boating, we spent the evening at this friend's house, having diner.
  The entire day was quite a glimpse into the american life, trucks, boats, barbecue in a nice house, in a Wisteria Lane-like neighbourhood, kids wearing their baseball outfits... It was like being in one of these american movie/tv show... :-)
  Some pics here
• I'm following the French elections from afar... I gotta say I'm quite glad to be away from all the fuss... and I hope that <censored> will not win =)

Happy Landings!

I've been in the US for more than a year now. When I got here last year, the weather was really bad, it was raining all the time... But this year, it's really different and it couldn't be better! We're having temperatures in the mid 20's celsuis, even 27 on sunday!

This good weather is perfect for flying and for some beach discovery trips :) So far, we've been to Capitola Beach, Pomponio State Beach, La Selva Beach... It's really fun to go to the beach in February/March :) Let's hope this weather continues!

(Click here for the beach trips pictures of Pomponio and Capitola and here for some other of Sausalito and Muir Beach.)

I just made an appointment to the doctor... I think I got over excited with the weather and probably caught something at GDC while walking to the restaurant thursday night... I was soo cold... The temperature difference between Santa Clara and San Francisco can be really surprising sometimes...

On the aviation side, I'm really hooked up on tailwheel aircrafts now! I fly the citabrias almost every week ends! Two weeks ago, I went on a little flight along the coast in the citabria, it was really wonderful!
I did some thinking recently, and I think I'll get my US license. Keeping a current license in France is quite annoying as it makes it really difficult to add ratings and such... For example, I can't fly at night, so I wanted to do the required time to be able to fly after sunset... I did a couple of flights, and then called the FSDO to know how I could add this to my license... and they said I was supposed to add this to my french license first... which means, go there, fly 5 take offs/landings full stop, and then stamp my license, and I would be all set... this is just stupid... so I'll retake the written test and a checkride here to get my local license here... it should be easier then! :)
Going through this all over again is quite annoying, but it can't be that bad... I made it once, I can probably make it again... Let's hope I didn't get too many bad flying habits during these 200+ hours I've been above the ground !

Happy Landings!