Well, after 2 weeks of theory, I managed to get a couple of flights in. It was great to get back into the pilots seat after 5 years - although I found that my skills were a little rusty. This has pretty much gone now - as I have become used to controlling the aircraft again and am able to pull of most manoeuvres without much difficulty. Todays flight was great. We did practice forced landings (PFLs), stalls, and advanced stalls - leading to incipient spins. It was quite good to see all that happen in 1.4 hours!

On the down side, we got our….. wedge of paperwork to study.

Yay me. :)

After forgetting to update this site with Release 7 details, I’ve now put up Release 8 of my replacement Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM on this site. Grab it from here.

Looks like Microsoft have pushed back the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 until near the end of February - even though the service pack has been finalised. There will be 2 service packs. The 32 bit version is around 440Mb, while the x64 version clocks in at around 730Mb!

EDIT: Vista SP1 can now be downloaded directly from Microsoft.

Well, my aviation course starts in 1 hour, 26 minutes. I don’t know which is the overwhelming feeling - excitement, nervousness, or scared. It’s been 5 years since I’ve been at the controls of an aircraft, and I’ve been trying to remember as much as possible. It’ll be interesting to see how much I remember.

Wish me luck :)

Looks like the word is that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been finalised by Microsoft and it’s group of beta testers. Preliminary reports seem to show that (as usual), the service pack has been leaked to numerous online web sites, however it will probably appear on the Microsoft web site fairly soon (within a couple of weeks).

It is unknown as yet if this will be a forced download via Windows Update for the existing Windows Vista users.