How about a Quickie?!

Today's post is to keep up the habit. I realize that it has been a couple of weeks since I've posted and I want to stay in practice of keeping myself in the ink. I arrived home today to the news that my wife had started a blog and I figured I had to at least get on and link her into this blog so that you, the reader, can have the complete Lopez experience. Here is her link: http://lopezfour.blogspot.com. I will caution you to only believe the good things she says about me. I doubt that I will EVER give her any negative thing to say about me. (HAHA).

This past week I began a new equipment transition at work and feel that I may gotten in over my head. I don't say that to mean that I can't handle the information that the instructors are providing or that I can't correlate this to practical use. I say that to mean that after over 15 years of flying one way with limited yet regular upgrades in technology to help doing so, I am having to completely relearn how to manage a cockpit. It is truly putting the "old dog / new tricks" theory into practice. Hopefully with enough studying on my part and a lack of studying by my classmates I won't look to much like an analog man lost in the Nintendo world. On the left, are 2 photos. The top one is the new cockpit I will be flying (I got that one off the internet for those of you saying something about security clearances), and the bottom one is the E6-B computer that every cub aviator in the world still learns on. I still use the E6-B today. Or I should say that until today, I used the E6-B. The advances in aviation automation technology is rendering items like the E6-B, plotters, and possibly even maps things you will only see in a museum. Personally, I'm waiting for the software drop that makes the pilot irrelevant for everything except inputting the flight information. Eventually it will be 2 pilots, 3 laptops, and 1 monkey with a big stick.