HOUSE 77 Xmas EDITION

Aight so it's been like...a long freaking time since I last posted. This has been for a number of reasons. One is that I have started working again. Craziness hey? I didn't work for over a year before I got that job. So anyway yah, I am at the Brampton Flying Club, as a dispatcher. I dispatch planes. I take phone calls from crazy people who think we are Pearson and have jets. I process stuff. Etc etc.

I have also been working hard on my multi-engine aircraft rating. This means I can fly aircraft with (surprise!!) multiple engines. Or in this case, two. I have been flying the Piper PA-44-180 Seminole. It has two Lycoming O360 engines producing 180hp each. I cruise between 120-160 knots (220-300km/h), and have a boatload of fun doing so. But it costs around $400 an hour to rent, meaning my credit card got raped this month. But on the bright side, today, oh glorious day, I passed my multi-engine flight test. I did it in 7.3 hours. They say that it averages around 10 hours, so I just saved myself nearly three hours, or $1200 worth of flying. That = me SUPER DUPER HAPPY.

So other interesting things. Firstly, my birthday is on the 28th, I am planning to do something possibly on the 30th. Further details will come once I decide, and you are all invited provided you promise to consume near-lethal quantities of alcohol. NEAR - LETHAL.

I might also be getting a second job. Ugh. That will hurt.

Other fascinating things. People with bionic limbs = awesome. Montreal shooting = absolutely terrible (I hope that Harper realizes what a fucking tool he is and does something even MORE drastic than the registry to stop this from happening in Canada, he will look like a hypocrit, but he has to).

I am excited about the new fall season of television. Weeds. Lost. Battlestar Galactica. But alas, Entourage is over...how I will miss thee until the next season.

And finally, I get to work on my multi-IFR rating now. Translated to land-people speak, that basically means you are certified to fly a multi-engined aircraft using Instrument Flight Regulations. Basically it means you keep your head down and look at the purdy instruments to guide you along. That is the final piece of my commercial licence, and once I have that (as well as completing a 300 nautical mile trip) I will be legally able to earn money to fly. And then on to being an instructor at (you ready for this?) a whopping 900-1000$!!!!....per month. UGH. Easy street here I come...I'll be flying your sons and daughters as they learn to become underpaid flight instructors too.