No Flying for a While

I haven’t been flying since the trip to St. Louis. The Chicago weather most weekends has inhibited flying, but the primary consideration has been money. Due to other pressures on my family’s budget, I have postponed my IFR lessons and time building for about six months. I have a little bit of money left on my account at Midway Aviators, so if the bug bites once or twice between now and then, I can go up with an instructor.

I’ve thought about swinging by Midway Aviators’ office and seeing if I can right-seat or back-seat with anyone else going up, but it’s far enough out of my way that I don’t want to wander over “for nothing”. My work has been demanding more of my time lately, and while I adjust to the new responsibilities my work-life balance has been out of whack. Consequently, the time I have away from the office is focused on my family—otherwise I would pursue hanger flying more aggressively.

I continue to fly in X-Plane as time allows. I haven’t made any progress learning Morse Code because dual-booting into Windows just for Morse practice is too much hassle. I don’t like any of the Mac Morse trainers, but I’m working on a command line utility to generate Morse Code for me to listen to on my iPod continuing the Koch learning method.