I’ve had a pretty rubbish time, health and fitness wise, since November so I’m trying my best to get back into running and also getting fitter. I need to lose some mass and the running will get easier if I do that. Currently I can’t run up the Downs and so that is my aim. To lose enough weight to make my fitness enough to run up the Downs and back down again. Today I ran the furthest I’ve done for ages. It felt good but it fucked me up – I ache and feel so tired!
I will keep going. This week has seen a bit of a turn around in motivation.
I’m still moving on with my around the world mission in X-Plane. In the last communication I was bombing around over Brazil having visited Antarctica. I’m still working my northwards at the moment to complete the east coast of the Americas. I do have some new kit on the flight sim – two desk extensions that hold the HOTAS system.
The updated flight system
So, my last landing was in the Falkland Islands so we shall continue with the next airport visited:
Rio Gallegos International Airport, (RGL/SAWG), Argentina Comandante Luis Piedrabuena Airport, Argentina Santa Cruz Airport, Argentina Puerto Deseado Airport, Argentina Cañadon Seco Airport, Argentina General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, Argentina Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport, Argentina Comandante Espora Airport, Argentina El Palomar Airport, Argentina João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport, Brazil Aeródromo de Belém Novo, Brazil Diomício Freitas/Forquilhinha Airport, Brazil Florianópolis-Hercílio Luz International Airport, Brazil Costa Esmeralda Airport, Brazil Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport, Brazil Curitiba-President Afonso Pena International Airport, Brazil São Paulo/Guarulhos – Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, Brazil Jacarepaguá–Roberto Marinho Airport, Brazil Rio de Janeiro/Galeão – Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, Brazil Joaquim de Azevedo Mancebo Airport, Brazil Campos–Bartolomeu Lysandro Airport, Brazil Guarapari Airport, Brazil Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport, Brazil Una-Comandatuba Airport, Brazil Val-de-Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport, Brazil Macapá-Alberto Alcolumbre International Airport, Brazil Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago Maurice Bishop International Airport, Grenada Canouan Airport, Canouan in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Argyle International Airport, St Vincent Hewanorra International Airport, St Lucia Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, Martinique Douglas–Charles Airport, Dominica John A. Osborne Airport, Montserrat V. C. Bird International Airport, Antigua Princess Juliana International Airport, St Martin Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, British Virgin Islands Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, US Virgin Islands
So, not far to go now. Heading northwards and then I’ll curve over the Arctic to get back home. I’m looking forward to it.
I think I’m back. I’ve missed the diary part of this website and it’s time to utilise it again as a repository of my activities and thoughts.
In some ways the technical challenge of doing this has been fun along with frustrating. It turned out I felt useless not being able to check the things I’ve done or films I’ve seen. There’s a lot of effort gone into creating this site and a lot of words have been written. I want to be able to check my flying records wherever I am. I spent quite a while looking at getting my database exported to a word document but none of that was free. I thought about setting up more hosting accounts but that costs more than I am willing to spend in the current climate and so I recently decided it was time to utilise my NAS drive again.
I had used the NAS in the past for hosting but I never really got around the fact that my home IP address kept changing. It was a pain. Since then I have discovered a company that uses dynamic dns routing and can apply this to a domain name. Hence, this site should now work using the old addressing system. I’m currently working on cloud based back ups in case the NAS dies.
Current costs for this website are now around GBP30 a year compared to the over GBP100 I was paying. Mind you, I don’t have a security certificate so maybe that’s the next level of stuff to look at.
