Oil Painting Tutorial
Still on the hobby thread, albeit loosely now. I'm not even sure I know what that means let alone my poor readers. Lemme back up and learn from this. So it naturally flowed out of my mind silently, all I did was type it. I did give it a few seconds' thought then typed it out and went with it. So now I'm tryna make each posting on this platform a bit more stand alone yet relevant and indispensably intertwined with most of the pages. I think there's a difference between a blog page and a blog post but I'm a noob at blogging so I have to play my get out of jail free card on this one. If I may or can anyway. Pretty sure that makes sense mostly or at least half huh? Please leave a comment so I know who to track down without even looking. Haha. Sometimes I get my Kafkeesque on literarily and pen some absurd distractions that are both grammatically and syntactically challenged yet passable. A funny way of saying it moment for your Friday. Have fun in the sun everyone until next time, I'm out.
I'm gonna research the shit outta painting related things. Oil on canvas oriented stuff primarily. On Amazon for the most part. I'll pry start with just 4 colors and I don't know about white but red, blue and yellow are primary colors. I remember some from Art classes I've taken coming up the hill I've long been over. I know what I wanna paint and I have just 4 10" x 14" canvasses already stretched n stapled to wooden frames and ready to go. An easel would be very cool. Maybe I'll get one next month cuz I'm on tap for a new phone no pun intended. Let's go find one on Amazon...
Back to talking about X-Plane. It's worth mentioning right outta the gate that there is no actual "Instruction Manual" in print that I know of. There are myriad sites on the internet where you can find out how to do shit and there are inflight tutorials that get you started and comfortable. The best procedure is to just study up on all the menu items, settings and configurations right in the simulator with you.
Once you've become proficient flying light aircraft with only a single engine, the next logical step is to check out VATSIM, IVAO or Pilot Edge and vibe into some actual online flying with live Air Traffic Control in certain areas and during certain hours. Pilot Edge for example, provides full up ATC service. For a fee of course. There are several plans to choose from one is for just the LA basin and surrounding territory. The boundary for coverage corresponds to the Loss Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), or simply LA Center. ZLA it's called. That's about $179 annually if you pay up front or monthly it'll get the following tariff from you should you opt in: Either the LA Center Only & Westward Expansion Only are $19.95/mo. or $179.00 paid up front for a year. Save yourself a fifty 💵 dollar bill also known as a Grant. A hundred is a Franklin or a C-Note by the way. More on that bent later.
So they operate 15 hours a day and shut down at 1:00 am and they open at 10:00 am Central Time. 8a - 11p Pacific time. They're based out in California I think. Not sure though.
It's a great service for pilots of all stripe. Virtual pilots with zero or limited real world flying experience will experience significantly more challenges with the learning curve extremely steep. Make sure you take your time and READ. READ. READ. until you're head is dead as much as you can because preparation and preparedness foster awareness and that's critical to flight and ground safety. Practice and repetition are key elements to operate safely and efficiently. Organizing all your flight information will serve you well in this endeavor and it demands attentiveness. So I touched briefly on the Pilot Edge Platform. Getting set up is a breeze but the flight test scenarios get to be quite challenging and I'm a 10,000 hour total time ATP in the real world. Retired now but nonetheless. I flew the Cirrus Vision Jet (SF50) during most of the IFR check rides but for the VFR stuff I chose the Cessna 172. I think that's how it went now it's been a year since I signed on and flew with them so I'm at a loss on that. Meh. No worries. I chose a route that I flew IFR like a milk run nearly every time I flew and set the weather to low IFR. That afforded me the opportunity to really understand how to fly the light jet and master the aircraft. I've never flown any other jets large or small live though but tons of times offline in all sorts of weather. And that brings me to a waypoint so to speak, in that there's a snag when it comes to that. More on it later but it has to do with my inability to successfully master the Flight Data Computer or as it's sometimes called, the Flight Management System. I'm an old steam gauge pilot so Ive never received any official training on it or used it. So I was up against it from the start. Which sucks because I was looking forward to long haul flights. Or at least medium haul. Short hauls are great fun and challenging in their own realm but long overseas flights are serene and low stress most of the flight. Short hauling pilotos fly many legs during really long days up and down like a whore's panties. Lots of cycles meaning takeoffs and landings.
Later Gator, I'm gonna peel me up some seedless mandarin oranges and close my eyes for a minute.
It's 8:58.
Chow.
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