It’s always a bit of a bore to sit through the “safety lecture” in every flight you go on, however it has started to bring on a whole new meaning as I’m doing my pilot training. Having to memorise the passenger briefing and others word for word and recite it on every single flight makes things quite challenging.

Delta Airlines have made things a little bit simpler with a new video to be displayed on all their flights. I personally think it’s presentation is a lot nicer than watching the cabin crew half way down the aircraft!

Sometimes you just find some awesome stuff on Youtube. This is one of those.

I’ve put up Release 9 of my Dopod 838 Pro replacement ROM. Initial reports look good with no currently known issues. You can grab it here.

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.