The weekend of December 12th

I decided I'm going to go up on my own tomorrow. I have the plane from 9 to 11. I figure two hours is good enough for the day. I'm really excited about it. I finally got that mic for my headset. I can't remember if I've told this story already, but all well. I bought a David Clark H10-76 headset from ebay for $122. The thing with this headset is, it's military issue and is supposed to be used for helicopters. It came with "the" adapter I needed to make it work in the Cessna, or so the guy who sold it to me said. So the Saturday I was going up that I had the headset, I took it up with me and tested it out. The earphones worked great. Crystal clear. The mic however, did not work at all. I went hom and check some stuff out. Apparently, I needed a 133 dollar adapter to change the impedence of the whole thing. Well I don't have 133 dollars so I looked for an alternative. Thankfully, another person on ebay had my solution. A new mic that should work with the headset and the adapter. She sent it to me for free to test out, and if it worked, I could pay for it. She gave me free shipping cause of me being the Navy DEP. I really hope it works. The mic is only $40 though. So that's good. Much cheaper than the david clark adapter. It's a really nice headset though, and I'm really happy with it. It's been a stormy, snowy, icy week thus far and thankfully it ended today. After 1800Z was a real nice time to fly, the runway was cleared, the sky was over 10sm visibility, winds were from 350 but were so low that they showed up at 0knots, and was lightly snowing. I can't wait to see what it all looks like snowcovered. I'll definately be reporting this one tomorrow afterward. Sunday, I am going up with Jerry. We're doing another XC flight. I think this time we're going to Tri-Cities again to work on the VOR. This should be fun. Two updates in two days! Lucky me! Peace.