Sunday, August 28, 2011

XC-Soar for Altair and one more Annual Dinner

Another nice busy weekend is coming to an end. Ziggy came up with the idea of updating the XC-Soar on the Altair to the newest version. He permanently removed the old version from all storage devices he had and proudly replaced it with the brand new one. After uploading the software to the device though he started regretting his move. Suddenly the communication between Altair, Vario and GPS took s....

soft and hardware engineer

Uncle Google please help

The whole afternoon was destroyed by the software issue till we came up with the simplest solution ever. Find the old version on the net, download it, put it back in and learn for the future: 
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

The "old gentleman ramp" in the trailer was broke and needed new rivets to fix it. Here is how many pilots it takes to put two rivets in:

fix the things that are broke

Then they decided to set the cutting length in the brand new grass mower. This is how many of them are needed to perform this highly complicated task:

"good enough for who it's for"

"My name is Ziggy Kusiak. You can call me Trevor."

In the evening we drove to Natimuk for the Horsham Flying Club Annual Dinner. The food was good, beer nice and cool, awards and life memberships presented and my presentation took much to long - I just can't stop talking about flying. They were listening though (were they just trying to be nice?) so it couldn't be to bad I assume.

Annual Dinner

life membership for Steve

and one for Mike

Marta's talk

the software is working!

"What have I told you?"

Max proudly presenting the tail dolly he made for the Grob