Well, like they say, any landing you walk away from is a good one. Had a great flight today. This old dog had a few new tricks left in him. My flight was limited to OK, CO--sorry, George. We'll see if we can schedule a fly-by sometime in the future.
One thing did happen today that wasn't so smooth. Remember the first Star Trek movie? I know, most of us try to forget that one. Kirk was running around the Enterprise barking orders and Decker was following afterwards going, "No, belay that order," mostly because Kirk had a few things to learn about the new Enterprise. That was me today. We were climbing out towards our rendezvous with the tanker for the air refueling when I put something into the mission computer that caused a total blackout. That's a little disturbing in an aircraft that is like a big video game. It's like hitting the little reset button on your playstation. Everything went black and I was flying a Sopwith Camel at 20 thousand feet. Everything eventually came back up, but I spent the next 20 minutes pulling out seat cushion that had been sucked up into...well...
The young Captain (Decker) sitting behind me says, "Oh yeah, you did so-and-so and that caused the reset." Later discussions revealed that the earliest president this young Captain can remember is President Bush Senior. Back to the books.
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Glad you had a good flight. I'm surprised that the aircraft computer is so sensitive that it would crap out like that. They must be running Vista. So, what did you enter that caused the problem (I'm hoping you were trying to update your blog from the cockpit.)
I think it was when I tried to put a Blue Ray movie in the player. It only takes straight DVDs.
Those things don't take Beta, either, do they?
Beta or VHS. 220, 221, whatever it takes...
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