I started the day trying out the 4K TV as a monitor thing, and pretty much hated it. The corners are too far away, so I ended up putting everything in the middle of the screen, and I couldn't get the brightness to where I was comfortable with it. Also, 30Hz refresh on the screen is miserable, and that seems to be the fastest rate that the laptop can support. So, having cleared everything out, we put the TV back on the wall in the bedroom, and I put my 2 monitors back on my desk. Oh well.
I went and met Chris and Randy at the airport for lunch - there were a lot of clouds around, so I didn't feel I had to fly, so we just went to Mary's. I did some fiddling with the power line to the transponder in Chris' gyroplane, and when he got home, he texted to say it worked just fine, so the problem is the fuse holder - that can be replaced pretty easily.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
March 28th
I went to the airfield and tinkered with the plane (it was raining - Randy got out for 18 whole minutes). I wanted to look at the dragging right brake, but found a bump on the tyre, so I ended up replacing that. I also cleaned and re-oiled the air filter. Other than that, I gave it a clean and headed home.
At home, I've been thinking about getting a curved TV to act as a single display, rather than have 2 monitors, so we took the TV off the wall in the bedroom, screwed its foot back on and put that on my desk. It took a while to get everything working (my home desktop with a GTC1050Ti said "OK, I see that monitor", but my work laptop's UsB-C extended claims to not have the bandwidth for 2160p at 30Hz, so I ended up plugging the HDMI straight into that and having to generate a custom resolution for the driver.) I'm on call tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes then.
At home, I've been thinking about getting a curved TV to act as a single display, rather than have 2 monitors, so we took the TV off the wall in the bedroom, screwed its foot back on and put that on my desk. It took a while to get everything working (my home desktop with a GTC1050Ti said "OK, I see that monitor", but my work laptop's UsB-C extended claims to not have the bandwidth for 2160p at 30Hz, so I ended up plugging the HDMI straight into that and having to generate a custom resolution for the driver.) I'm on call tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes then.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
March 26th
We went shopping, past all the empty aisles where there should be toilet paper, and when we got home, watched "Bombshell". I find it difficult to feel sorry for the two real women in the show, as I feel they helped do an awful lot of damage to American discourse.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
March 23rd
Vic came home from work early, and we got her work computer all set up so she can work from home now.
As we're stuck in the house, I figured I'd work on some of my projects, so I made up a cable to power Vic's heated gloves from a standard 12v accessory socket (like one of the two in the back of the plane). It took me several goes with the solder to get the wires in just the right place to put the damn thing back together again, but it works now.
As we're stuck in the house, I figured I'd work on some of my projects, so I made up a cable to power Vic's heated gloves from a standard 12v accessory socket (like one of the two in the back of the plane). It took me several goes with the solder to get the wires in just the right place to put the damn thing back together again, but it works now.
Monday, March 23, 2020
March 22nd
I went and met Randy at the airport, and we took the gyros out. We did a touch and go and go at Sutter County, then flew around the North of the Beale class C airspace. We talk to each other on 123.45 while we're flying, and could hear 8 Cubs talking to each other on that frequency who were hopping up and down in a river somewhere. I called them, but I don't think they could hear me, as I was concerned that the river they were talking about was the river we were flying along at the time. After I heard one of them mention the Van Dyke (private) airport, I realised they were on the other side of Lincoln. Anyway, we were all heading back towards Lincoln, and they landed a few minutes before we did.
After lunch at Mary's, we headed home.
After lunch at Mary's, we headed home.
Sunday, March 22, 2020
March 21st
Randy and I met at the airport, then headed out to Cameron Park via touch and goes at Georgetown and Placerville, and an overflight of (private) Swansboro.
We had lunch with Chris (sitting outside, as the deli was pretty much closed down), then tinkered with his non-functioning ADS-B for a short while, before heading out towards Nyack. I ended up in the lead, and as I was approaching 4,000', I was getting a bit of a battering and looking at clouds that weren't much more than 1,000' above me - Nyack's at 5,200', so we'd need to be at 6,200' for pattern altitude. There was also snow on the ground in front of me, and they don't plough the runway, so we probably wouldn't have been able to land anyway. I called the Randy and Chris, and said I was just going to head back to Lincoln.
There were a few people at Lincoln, and we chatted and worked on Chris' radio - it keeps cutting out. We checked the connections, then I suggested we just swap the power lines from the radio and the transponder for his flight back to Cameron Park. He texted me when he got home to say now the transponder is cutting out, so we know at least that it's a power problem.
I got home to a very tired Tilly - Vic had taken her for a walk, and Tilly'd led them to the dog park. Apparently she played for about 10 minutes, then wanted to go home, having to stop and rest a couple of times on the way. While Tilly slept, we watched Jumanji: The Next Level.
We had lunch with Chris (sitting outside, as the deli was pretty much closed down), then tinkered with his non-functioning ADS-B for a short while, before heading out towards Nyack. I ended up in the lead, and as I was approaching 4,000', I was getting a bit of a battering and looking at clouds that weren't much more than 1,000' above me - Nyack's at 5,200', so we'd need to be at 6,200' for pattern altitude. There was also snow on the ground in front of me, and they don't plough the runway, so we probably wouldn't have been able to land anyway. I called the Randy and Chris, and said I was just going to head back to Lincoln.
There were a few people at Lincoln, and we chatted and worked on Chris' radio - it keeps cutting out. We checked the connections, then I suggested we just swap the power lines from the radio and the transponder for his flight back to Cameron Park. He texted me when he got home to say now the transponder is cutting out, so we know at least that it's a power problem.
I got home to a very tired Tilly - Vic had taken her for a walk, and Tilly'd led them to the dog park. Apparently she played for about 10 minutes, then wanted to go home, having to stop and rest a couple of times on the way. While Tilly slept, we watched Jumanji: The Next Level.
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