JJG Journal

While working out at the local health club I can glance up and see a row of TV monitors which are tuned to various TV channels. I do not listen to the sound - usually I have an mp3 player loaded with music or interesting podcasts - but the pictures on these monitors show a world dominated by deceptive commercials, reality TV, dumb, dumb TV shows and political propaganda. It looks to me that anyone that voluntarily watches commercial TV has to be a complete moron, or is on the way of turning into one. There are numerous...Continue Reading »

On Wednesday of last week I finally did the G1000 checkout ride. Initially I was unsure how many hours of actual flight training would be required in my case for the instructor to sign the G1000 transition endorsement. As it turned out a short cross country flight was sufficient. I had already trained with MS FSX and Garmin’s own PC-based simulator software and was a little more at home with the knob-twisting and button-pushing routines required to operate the G1000 than my instructor. As a training exercise...Continue Reading »