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  • qrcodelink

    QR Codes - Decoding The Box

    I made a minor discovery this morning before starting work in the studio. Something quite interesting, geeky and possibly useful too. It reminded me of some random time in my childhood, spent making codes with my school-friends that only we could read... Then trying to crack the ones that another group of friends had made. QR Codes. A QR Code is a two-dimensional bar code displayed in a square box. It was created...
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  • Air Navigation Pro

    iNavigation

    Friday, July 26 - Time for another section of navigation exercises from Sherburn. This time I had some technical testing and questions in mind as well as the actual navigation exercise. My questions - Does the GPS system that is built into the iPad work well enough to be used for navigation? And if it does - Do the navigation apps stand up to the task? First, a little about the iPad. Basically a big iPhone....
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  • MEAP Version 7

    MEAP 7.0 Released

    MEAP - Multi Export Audio Pro - has been released to the public today. It has had a huge redesign and lots of extra features added, including a new streamlined dialog and many internal code tweaks and enhancements. What is MEAP? MEAP is a tool for automating the process of exporting (to audio) all individual MIDI instrument and Audio tracks from your musical project.  If you wanted to deliver all your parts ...
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  • Entering The PA28

    Flying Navigation With Guest

    My navigation instruction continued on Friday with a trip to Hornsea (on the East coast of England). Instructor Jonathan gave me the OK to bring a passenger which was really neat. So I met my old friend Pete Neville in the morning and we finished off the flight plan and route calculations at home before heading to Sherburn. Pete took a few pictures with his phone which turned out quite nicely. Today's route...
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  • Web site with added icons

    Adding Extra Icons to the Mystique Theme

    The new web site is pretty much done now and I have pretty much settled on using the fantastic Mystique theme for WordPress. This is one the nicest and most useful themes I have seen. Built by the amazingly talented people at Digital Nature. Many people have been having trouble adding extra icons to the theme. There are a number of ways to do this found in various places around the web but none of them stand...
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  • Parked and Ready

    Up Down - Flying Around!

    We were pleasantly surprised by some more good weather today. So I managed to get over to Sherburn for an hour of flying instruction. It was time for some more practise of precautionary procedures today. It's a lot to take in all in one go but very enjoyable stuff and as mentioned before, essential to a pilot's arsenal of skills. A precautionary landing is a simulation of being low on fuel or some other similar...
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  • PA28 Rear View

    Flying The PA28

    I had to cancel flying again today, due to having no transport to take me to the aero club. I suppose it was just as well, after what I had to pay out for the car service, MOT and parts. So I thought I'd make a blog entry with some pictures of the planes I have been flying. Some of the pictures are a little old but the actual planes haven't changed much in that time. What has changed, is my knowledge of them....
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  • Corsair Obsidian 800D

    New Rig Up and Running

    This post comes under the category of Technical / IT and is for Geeks only.... You know who you are... I've been off-line for a few days due to building up a new computer. Something we should never take lightly, as there always a certain amount of problems that crop up just when you think things are going smoothly. Anyway, I have now got everything back up and running, including installing all the hardware and...
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  • Final 29 full stop

    Flying Training on Friday 13th - A Great Day!

    Despite the fact that there is still patchy snow and ice on the ground, the skies were clear and wind relatively calm today. After checking out G-SACS it was time to leave. My instructor Jonathan Anderson (centre) took some pictures while I was flying. The view is lovely. Especially seeing the little bits of snow still thawing in some of the fields. There was an eight Knot crosswind at the...
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  • Phil at the Landmark

    Thailand - Septemeber 2009

    Sawas dee khab! Riffs & Rays short tour of Thailand, September 2009. Any attempt to fit the whole trip into a blog like this would be futile. Also many of the really good parts are unpublishable or forgotten and the really really good parts are probably both. I have now calculated with the aid of 2 full passports plus my 3rd existing passport that this was my 28th trip to the land of smiles. Even so there...
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  • You're looking good out there!

    Good To Be Back

    Just a short post here regarding the past weekend of music: We played at Manchester Pride on the main stage Saturday afternoon to approximately 10,000 people (apparently). I have to admit it was somewhat a strange and of course great feeling. Why? Well, I've worked on stage now since I was 13 years old. But not since I was about 20 years old have I been performing my own material. In the middle east,...
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  • Instructor Jonathan Anderson & Mr Phil

    Solo Navigation

    Today I completed my first ever solo journey out of the local airfield vicinity. I have done a fair amount of solo flying but up until now, only in the circuit at Sherburn. This means plenty of take-offs and landings but not much radio and navigation work. Today was the day when instructor Jonathan felt confident enough to let me out of the circuit on my own. Incidentally it was my main instructor Jonathan...
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qrcodelink

QR Codes – Decoding The Box

Jul 14th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in IT

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I made a minor discovery this morning before starting work in the studio. Something quite interesting, geeky and possibly useful too. It reminded me of some random time in my childhood, spent making codes with my school-friends that only we could read… Then trying to crack the ones that another group of friends had made.

iPad, iPhone, IT, qr code, Technical
Instructor Jonathan Anderson & Mr Phil

Solo Navigation

Jul 9th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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Today I completed my first ever solo journey out of the local airfield vicinity. I have done a fair amount of solo flying but up until now, only in the circuit at Sherburn. This means plenty of take-offs and landings but not much radio and navigation work. Today was the day when instructor Jonathan felt

Aviation, Flying Training, Google Earth, GPS, iPad, iPhone, IT, PA28, PPL, Sherburn, Technical, Weather
Air Navigation Pro

iNavigation

Jun 27th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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Friday, July 26 – Time for another section of navigation exercises from Sherburn. This time I had some technical testing and questions in mind as well as the actual navigation exercise. My questions – Does the GPS system that is built into the iPad work well enough to be used for navigation? And if it

Aviation, Flying Training, GPS, iPad, iPhone, IT, PA28, PPL, Sherburn, Technical, Weather
MEAP Version 7

MEAP 7.0 Released

Jun 11th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in IT

1 comment

MEAP – Multi Export Audio Pro – has been released to the public today. It has had a huge redesign and lots of extra features added, including a new streamlined dialog and many internal code tweaks and enhancements. What is MEAP? MEAP is a tool for automating the process of exporting (to audio) all individual

Cubase, IT, MEAP, Music, Nuendo, Steinberg
Entering The PA28

Flying Navigation With Guest

May 28th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

1 comment

My navigation instruction continued on Friday with a trip to Hornsea (on the East coast of England). Instructor Jonathan gave me the OK to bring a passenger which was really neat. So I met my old friend Pete Neville in the morning and we finished off the flight plan and route calculations at home before

Aviation, Flying Training, Google Earth, GPS, PA28, PPL, Sherburn
Sherburn After Landing

First PPL Navigation Exercise

May 21st

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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Today marked my first PPL Navigation exercise from Sherburn. I have been learning to fly now for over two years and today was the first time I have actually flown to a destination outside of the normal Sherburn circuit. There is some out of circuit work involved before the navigation exercises begin but it’s mostly

Aviation, Exams, Flying Training, Google Earth, GPS, PA28, PPL, Sherburn
Parked at Sherburn

Runway 24 Grass

May 14th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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Just a quickie… I went over to Sherburn today to do the final preparation for next week’s navigation exercise. We’ll be flying to Bridlington and Brough. So I need to get the procedure straight. There’ll be a small chance to revise it before we go. This will be my first proper navigation using a map

Aviation, Flying Training, Google Earth, GPS, iPhone, PA28, PPL, Sherburn
MEAP Dialog - Main Options

MEAP 7.0 Coming Soon

May 5th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in IT

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I’m in the process of putting the finishing touches to the new release of my MEAP application. Multi Export Audio Pro will reach Version 7.0 within the next few weeks. There are quite a number of changes both visible and “under the hood”. All internal code has been re-written, pretty much from the ground up.

Cubase, IT, MEAP, Music, Nuendo, Steinberg, Technical
Parked and Ready

Up Down – Flying Around!

Apr 30th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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We were pleasantly surprised by some more good weather today. So I managed to get over to Sherburn for an hour of flying instruction. It was time for some more practise of precautionary procedures today. It’s a lot to take in all in one go but very enjoyable stuff and as mentioned before, essential to

Aviation, Flying Training, Google Earth, GPS, iPhone, PA28, PPL, Sherburn
Some Fields

Pick a Field – Any Field – Now Land On It

Apr 23rd

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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PFL – Practised Forced Landing So what happens if you are up in the sky in your aircraft and you get an engine failure? That’s what today’s flying lesson was all about. We take off from Sherburn and head to the southern training area (Over and around Doncaster). This was fun in itself, as it

Aviation, Flying Training, PA28, PPL, Sherburn, Video
Mmmm Cold Beer

Wind Calm and Human Performance

Apr 10th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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Finally, good weather and finances permitted me to get over to Sherburn today to get some flying done. It was one of those very rare days when the weather forecast says “Wind = CALM”. Which means, as it says, there was little or no significant wind – at least from the surface to where I

Aviation, Beer, Exams, Flying Training, PA28, PPL, Sherburn, Weather
Corsair Obsidian 800D

New Rig Up and Running

Mar 25th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in IT

5 comments

This post comes under the category of Technical / IT and is for Geeks only…. You know who you are… I’ve been off-line for a few days due to building up a new computer. Something we should never take lightly, as there always a certain amount of problems that crop up just when you think

IT, Music, Technical
PA28 Rear View

Flying The PA28

Mar 19th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Aviation

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I had to cancel flying again today, due to having no transport to take me to the aero club. I suppose it was just as well, after what I had to pay out for the car service, MOT and parts. So I thought I’d make a blog entry with some pictures of the planes I

Aviation, Flying Training, PA28, Personal, PPL, Sherburn, Weather, Winter
Web site with added icons

Adding Extra Icons to the Mystique Theme

Mar 18th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in IT

31 comments

The new web site is pretty much done now and I have pretty much settled on using the fantastic Mystique theme for WordPress. This is one the nicest and most useful themes I have seen. Built by the amazingly talented people at Digital Nature. Many people have been having trouble adding extra icons to the

iPhone, IT, WWW
Salmon Fillets

The Price of Fitness

Mar 17th

Posted by Phil Pendlebury in Health

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Fitness and diet – Something I haven’t really written about before (and probably won’t again) but here’s a little story for you: Around Christmas time, like many of us, the result of some rather indulgent meals and lack of exercise prompted me to weigh myself for the first time in years. The results were not

Diet, Fitness, Health, iPhone, Personal
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