Some random pics

…from the last couple weeks. 

A Coast Guard helicopter:

A view from Charlie pattern, the main practice pattern for students:

Another view from charlie, this time of the airport.  You can see the main runway and juuust make out the tower way over on the left above the runway.

Lady J took the next few  (side note:  i just realized my wife’s new nickname is lady j, it’s perfect cuz she’s such a ninja.  fans of g.i. joe will understand, everyone else…well, just roll with it.)

gettin’ my Blue Thunder on… 

And this one, well, Lady J took me to the Portland City Grill.  30th floor.  It was a fine, fine time celebrating my successful checkride.  At one point, seeing that now I’m also a pilot as well as being a geek, I found myself trying to determine, purely by eyeballing it, how far above the ground we were.