On the way to my License

And then there was the day: May, 18th 2003: My first cross country solo flight with a Cessna Skyhawk N54838 from Teterboro, New Jersey to Sullivan County International in Upstate New York!msv
My friends Rainer, Stefan and Miriam surprised me there and took these takes – Two calls and two pics:

Entering the traffic pattern – the call
Turning final – the call
The landing Youtube
Exiting the plane Youtube

June, 2nd 2003: Returning to Teterboro, New Jersey with the Cessna Skyhawk N98786 from my night cross country flight :Landing TEB, runway 24 Youtube

Videos

Links to flight videos of my friends Stefan, Rainer and me:

Stefan landing in Connecticut (watch the eyebrow!) 11/2002: Youtube

Rainer’s Night Landing FRG 11/02 Youtube

My first landings in Morristown, NJ (January, 19th 2003):
Rainer was courageous enough to sit in the back and to tape them. Very amusing, especially the rough landing #2! To see the videos double-click on the Icon

Landing Morristown, NJ #1 01/19/03 Youtub
cdw#2 (quite rough) 01/19/03 Youtube
#3 01/19/03 Youtube
Landing back in Teterboro, NJ 01/19/03 Youtube
Landing in Caldwell, NJ 02/08/03 You-tube

Harbor Island, Bahamas

Stefan joined us with a Piper Warrior in the Bahamas! The trip took him three and a half days from New York. Rainer, Uschi and I made a trip around ‘the Cays’ and flew to Norman’s Kay (place where Carlos Lehder, accomplice of Pablo Escobar, had his hide-out for a while). Very little Island, a short and relatively narrow runway but very impressive! See also at the Picture section!

Arrival Stefan on April, 15th in North Eleuthera, BahamasYoutube
Rainer flying along the East Shore of Harbor Island 04/16/03 Youtube
Landing in Norman’s Kay, April,16th 2003 Youtube
Flying along Harbor Island, Hanne and Petra waving on the beach! 04/16/03 Youtube
Landing back in North Eleuthera 04/16/03 Youtube

Data-Industrial Complex

An interesting overview of several contributing factors for the result of the last election of the President of the United States is to be found on the “US Centre’s” blog of the London School of Economics.

How Trump’s campaign used the new data-industrial complex to win the election

The data that turned the world upside down

motherboard.vice.com/…/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win

An excellent overview about the state of the art Military psy-ops, Facebook data-mining and the possibilities and limits of influencing public opinion. In a way scary stuff, but important be aware about it.

The data that turned the world upside down

Background Paper on Michal Kosinski, a psychologist specialized in psycho-metrics, his invention of the five factor personality model “OCEAN” used to analyze big data through coming Facebook for “Likes” and “Dislikes” people give to posts. Furthermore it reads like a detective story about using scientific findings in order to influence elections and support Anti-EU groups in the Brexit vote 2016 by Nagel Farage who hired the company Cambridge Analytica.

Democracies not attractive anymore?

How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’

Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics: that once a country becomes a liberal democracy, it will stay that way.

Google and social research

US data scientist Seth Stephens‑Davidowitz on disturbing truth about our hidden desires, beliefs and prejudices by analyzing Google trends:

Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets

Everybody lies. People lie about how many drinks they had on the way home. They lie about how often they go to the gym, how much those new shoes cost, whether they read that book. They call in sick when they’re not. They say they’ll be in touch when they won’t.

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