To the skies again...

[cjsmith]

I am now the proud holder of an FAA Medical Certificate Third Class.

Next step: become the proud holder of a BFR (Biennial Flight Review) signoff from an instructor. That one will take a little longer. :-)

(Need a "flying" usericon. Can't figure out how to get Paint to crop a .jpg! Grr.)
edit: got one!

Comments

[layer.livejournal.com]

yay!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I am hugely fighting that "still not a good pilot" demon. Grrr.

[layer.livejournal.com]

we'll both get there. we need a support group or something...

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!
(send the .jpg to me and I'll crop it, if someone hasn't already volunteered - Paint *sucks*.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Finally got it! crazyladynocats told me how. (And once I forget how again, I may very well take you up on that offer someday, so thanks!)

Sheesh, that shouldn't've been so darn hard. :-)

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

It's three steps too many - I hate Paint. At least XP came with MS Photo Editor, which allows you to select and crop with two mouse clicks :):).

(By the way, I hate iPhoto even more - it **sucks**.)

Loves me my Photoshop, yes I do!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Paint seems very simplistic. But it's here, it's free, and it can (though sloppily) do what I needed to do... fortunately I don't need to do anything like that often!

I could imagine getting very addicted to Photoshop. From what I've heard, it's an excellent tool for the job.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

It's amazing, and much more than I need. But I love it!

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

Check out The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org). There's a Windows version available, too.

Yay Open Source!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Irfan View (http://www.irfanview.com/) crops and otherwise manipulates raster images very nicely.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

you trying to crop (cut out a part of) or shrink a pic in paint?

to shrink something down to size, click on Image --> stretch/skew and use the percentage thingey to shrink it down. if you do both as the same percent (50% and 50%) it'll shrink it down evenly.

to crop somethin out of a pic, use the "select" button (looks like a dotted-line rectangle, directly under "edit") and then select what you want. cut, then paste. to crop out the rest of the pic, if you look along the lower and right edge, in the very middle will be a black dot "handle" that will let you move the boundaries up and over to make it smaller. i have a hard time finding it usually.

make sense? this assumes you're using windows, which may not be a correct assumption. :(

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

or you can have kwalton do it for you! ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You can MOVE THE BOUNDARIES! Aaaiiiieeee! Cyd, you're a genius. Here's my new icon. 8-) 8-)

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

Any particular plane you want an icon of?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Got one! Pitts S2B. (S2C would've done, too. Twist my arm.) Ahhhhh, I drool at the thought of flying acro again...

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

Pitts are nice, yeah. I have a weakness, though, for Russian planes. So, here:

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Never been up in one of those. I do know it can take a lot more than I can take. :-)

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

All right, CJ! Way to go!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now if I actually get the BFR, that's the good bit. This was just looking at an eye chart and getting my ribs prodded. The BFR, well, I have to admit to an instructor just how much skill I have lost...

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Ok, you are just so freaking nifty! You do so much cool stuff!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! *blush* Now that I've opened my big mouth about it I'll HAVE to go to the instructor for the next step, right? :-) Can't back out now!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yay!! You'll have to take me up with you sometime. :-)

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

icon lurve

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If you're out here when I'm actually signed off. Warning, I like flying upside down. ;-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Warning, I like flying upside down. ;-)

Oh, the ways I could take that statement out of context. ;-)

*ahem* Actually, upside down would be cool, as long as I have the camera strapped on well. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Consider yourself on the list of potential victims acro passengers. Presuming time, availability, me getting my skills honed, good weather, luck of the draw... :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

congratulations :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The next step is the big part. I don't enjoy admitting how rusty I am. Too bad there's no cure for that except work. ;-)

[chiefted]

Hey Congrats on the new cert

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now let's see if I follow through on the real part. ;-)

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! I have no idea what any of that means, of course, but it sounds good. So woohoo! :)

So does this mean you are a pilot? Just curious. Ever since I was a kid, it's been my dream to learn how to fly. I always tell myself that this is the year that I will look into doing it, but I obviously haven't yet. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

'Deed I am a pilot. Well, I was one a few years ago. According to the license I still are one but I do need some refresher work. :-)

You could drop by your nearest general aviation airport for an "intro flight", just to dip your toes in and see how it might be. Warning, it can be fun as all get-out and might be addictive!

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's my problem. While I've never done it, I can just tell myself I will someday. My brain is used to that, I'm a great procrastinator. :) But once I do all the work of finding an airport and arranging a flight and all that, my brain is going to start reminding me how much simpler it would be to just take a class or something. And that's when I need to start worrying about money and everything. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

But once I do all the work of finding an airport and arranging a flight and all that, my brain is going to start reminding me how much simpler it would be to just take a class or something. And that's when I need to start worrying about money and everything. :)

Yeeeeeaaaaaah, there is that. Sometimes we can fool ourselves -- "I'm eating only one potato chip, really I am!" -- and sometimes we're just too smart to fall for that trick.

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

I'm not that smart, so I will fall for most anyone's tricks. But my own? I may JUST be smart enough to fool myself. ;)