JoEsepHs/AndRewS Place

 

Okay!  I know!  I've not posted anything for agggggggggggges

 

Well, thats because everything has changed!  I no longer work at the hospital (well I do every now and again) and I've gone back to university to a degree in physiotherapy!!  I'm over half way through my first year of the 3 year course!

 

Flying? - on hold for now, but hoping to do another flight out of netherthorpe this summer, the plan is to get a 4 seater again and sell the free seats to my mates to help me cover the costs AND have ppl to take cool pics while we;re flying!

 

So physio.... well I can do massage, cryotherapy, TENS and interferential therapy now and if this week goes to plan I can add ultrasound and pulsed eletromagnetic energy therapy to the list as well!  They are big and cool sounding words.  Basically its different ways of treating tissue damage wth big posh machines!  If you wanna know more checkout a very cool website: www.electrotherapy.org :) )the site all my therapy notes are made from lol)

 

So I fell really lucky with this course, landed in the best group of the entire year! (yea group D rules!!)  Made some great new friends!  We have climbers, figure skaters, rugby players, footballers, ice hockey players and me (my cool thing is I piloted a plane lol.. twice!!) .  A few of us went ice skating last week - pics online in the album! - and our figure skater taught me how to do it better.  And I even survived over an hour of skating without breaking any bones w00t w00t, although we did see someone else break their leg, that looked painfull and made us think twice about how good an idea it was for us to be doing it lol... but it was a great day.   We have plans for a climbing day, going to watch a ice hockey game together and we;re even thinking of taking a trip to the ski village as well!  All of these will be very cool if we can manage to organise them!

 

What else do i need to mention.... hmmm

 

I'm still following manned space flight, sts-119 launches this week to add the last solar array section to the space station, I'm thinking if its a good idea or not to stay up till 3am to see it launch on thursday morning.... I have practicals 11-6 the next day...  I'm also hoping to study a bit of space medicine as part of my physio degree, looking at how physio can help astronauts on long term space flights with things like muscle and bone loss.  If I get my way my discertation will be on this topic!

 

So yeah, any questions? post below

 

And shout outs to:

>> Linz!! "once we learn to stop, theres no stopping us!"- great quote! << 

>> Abbi - for showing me spins, jumps and backwards skating! <<

annnd

>> Rich (not uni Rich tho lol) for yet again helping me fix my car... <<

 

Cya all soon =)

 

 

Hey all

 

I AM still here, live and kicking, back at uni now doing physiotherapy, will post more soon!

 

Woohoo, finally got the video of my second flight online here now!  Enjoy all (its the youtube video just above the blog)

So the weather was kind!!

 

I got to the airport and we were able to fly!!  It was windy and there was a fair amount of cloud around but it was okay.  It was a lot better flying from Netherthorpe as we could all get right up the planes.  Netherthorpe is owned by the local fling club and has four grass runways and a club house, it was all really friendly!  So we took some pics around the airport and watched a bi-plane take off then I met my intstructor and me and Rich went out to the plane with him.  This time it was a Piper not a Cessna, so I've now flown two different types of plane yay!  We got the plane started, we all buckled in and did some preflight checks and got a short brief on the flight.  We taxied round to the runway and took off heading back toward my house!  We flew back over my town and then did circles both round my house and rich's which was cool!  We were doing all this at around 2500feet but as it was a bit bumpy because of the weather, instructor took us up to 5500feet where it was much smoother and I got to do some flying.  I spent about 20mins doing turns and practicing pitching and this time we even covered yaw which I never did at Robin Hood!  We were talking to Doncaster Air Traffic Control throughout the flight except during takeoff and landing when we used the airports general frequency.  After I'd done some flying up at 5500 we came back down and circled the airport before my instructor landed (it was a tricky landing due to the wind!) and we were back on solid ground!

 

Rich did loads of aerial photography in the back of the plane, we saw all the towns and villages round where we live, photes a rainbow from above and got some very cool in the cockpit shots.  I will upload a few to the photo gallery!

 

All in all it was a fun flight, although i did feel queesy during the desent!  Just need to decide if I wanna do anymore flying training now, because if I do, I've found the airport i want to do it from!  I;ve got free membership to the club for two months so no dought I'll head back up there at some point to watch the planes and chat to the pilots!

 

check out the video of the day at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAgQxTMb_c

 

I just got latest weather update for takeoff time tomw...

 

Chance now of heavy showers all morning, winds are expected to be arond 15mph now and visability is forecast poor.... so its not looking good =(

Hey all!!

 

My second flying lesson is scheduled for 10:15am tomorrow morning at Netherfield Airfield!  It will be an hour long lesson in a 4 seater plane!  I am taking along a friend as a passenger so this time there will be in the cockpit photos!!

 

Weather for tomorrow is currently looking a bit ominous but not terrible...  we got 8-12mph westerly wind, fairly overcast, and for takeoff time, chance of some light rain.  However visability should be good to very good all morning so if we do get off we shouldnt get any haze on the photos! =)  It actually sounds kinda similar to the weather last time and it will all come down to how heavy the rain is if it comes.

 

Will be callng the airfield tomw between 8 and 9am to check things out.  In the meantime I'm charging camera batteries and making sure I have everything ready for if the weather is kind tomw!

Just a quick extra blog today because i wanted to share something that happened today.

 

I had a patient come to me today they were sayng to me how they had done everything in life they wanted to do and there was nothing else they felt like doing and they were ready for being finished with everything =(  So i was trying to cheer him up but he didnt wanna travel or go see any famous places or anything else i suggested.  So i asked him if he wanted to know the one thing that I would want to do if I coud get a chance.  He said yes so I told him i wanted to see a shuttle launch live from Kennedy space centre! He looked at me and said what a great goal he thought that was and how he hoped i managed it one day.  "You really think so?" I asked, and he suddenly started on telling me about spaceflight things he;d seen in the 60s and about space fiction.  We talked a bit about current missions and it was great for me talking to someone who got as excited about spaceflight as i do.   So as he was leaving I aked if he;d ever seen he NASA webste and he hadn;t!  So i gave the www.nasa.gov link to him and he was like a changed person, sudenly interested and saying he was going home to log on and find about the latest phoenix lander report and read up on shuttles.  It was a really nice moment to share my interest in space and inspire someone else to go and further theirs as well and to cheer someone up so quickly =) i thought id share it with everyone =)