Last Saturday morning I did a spot of teaching in Rockcliffe Flying Club's classroom, being a guest speaker at the Co-Pilots' Groundschool run by a friend of ours, Jean René de Cotret. As a typical (?) right seat passenger, I'd been invited to enthuse the nervous participants in the course, who seemed to have little if any experience of going along for a ride in a small 'plane. I told them what they could do to lighten their pilot's workload—before setting off, during the flight and after landing—what to carry in the 'plane, how two pairs of eyes were better than one up there, when they should say something in the cockpit and when they should keep quiet. I spoke for almost an hour and hope I didn't regale them with too many horror stories, like the one about a gusty landing on the Isle-aux-Coudres in the summer of 2005, that caused me to scream.
What a super trip that was, though. We eventually reached Halifax by way of the Gaspé peninsular. We might head in an easterly direction again this month or next month, stopping at the Isle again with the intention of travelling on to explore the Saguenay Fjord northwest to Chicoutimi. We'll see. First I have to persuade my husband to take a break from working so hard to make QNX's ultra reliable software ever more ultra reliable.
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