Dad had complained about not being able to swing the camera around in the Insta360 videos, so I created a quick one around the dam on the Far West Lake reservoir. it's about 1 minute 22 seconds long, and some 1.8Gb in size, so it took about an hour to upload to the YouTub. Where they immediately went to work over compressing the whole thing.
We met the flying gang for lunch at In 'N Out.
As Xmas is on Saturday, we got the Friday off. Yay, 3 day weekend.
I met Shane at the airport so we could look at this parking brake thing he's been playing with. The wind was gusting to 21 knots almost straight across the runway (220, the runway's 150 degrees) and we didn't have to fly, so we didn't.
At home, we watched "No Time To Die."
I went and got the COVID booster shot. I'm still not magnetic, but I'm hoping my balls don't swell up.
Vic's new PC arrived - it's a pre-built HP system with an RTX 3060Ti, and after a few hours copying data from her old Alienware Alpha, we had it playing Warcraft with everything turned up to 11 at 60fps (the fastest speed the monitor can display).
I went and met Shane and Liza at the airport so we could drill a couple of holes and put his throttle unit back together. We also checked my wiring of his old headset, and that worked, so we put that into his Team Wendy helmet.
It was pretty crappy, but the AWOS was saying 1700', so we took off to go for a little flight. Our little flight ended up being even smaller than we'd hoped before heading back, but I did get to grab a short section of video of my flying alongside him before we headed back.
I was on call, so I got to keep the queue at work cleared out.
It was foggy today, so we drove up to Auburn to meet Chris for breakfast. He was late, but flying back from Tahoe, so we didn't give him too much grief.
After clearing out some stuff at work, I went to the airport to help Shane tinker with the parking brake on his gyro. After trying for ages to drill a hole in a bracket, I said "it's almost like this is stainless steel." Shane pointed out that stainless isn't magnetic, and sure enough when we tested it with a magnet, it was stainless. He's gone to Home Depot on the way home to get some cobalt tipped drills.
I tested my new Lightspeed headset, and it seems to work. It'll be nice to fly with it when the fog lifts.
Shane has been fiddling with helmets as well, and managed to completely screw up a headset trying to get it apart to install, so this evening I sat and rewired it. I thought I'd done a pretty good job until I went to put some heat shrink over the joins (that were already heat shrinked) and realised that the heat shrink I'd put over the wires was too small to get over the new bundle because it all had heat shrink on it. Still, I guess that's what electrical tape is for :o)
