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Before loading a visual, assume the following basic setup:

• The destination airport is already in the active flight plan and set as DEST on the FMS.​
• The FMS is the selected lateral nav source on the PFD (FMS1/FMS2 as applicable) and the aircraft is navigating normally in LNAV along the route.

Step‑by‑step: database visual approach (simplest method)

1. On the CDU, press DEP/ARR to open the Departures/Arrivals page for your destination.​​
2. If you see departures, press DEP/ARR again until you see ARR for DEST at the top of the page.​​
3. On the ARRivals page, select ARRIVE for your destination airport if prompted.​​
4. In the list of approaches, scroll down until you see the VISUAL approaches at the end of the list.​​
5. Line‑select the VISUAL RWxx you want (for example, VISUAL RWY 34).​​
6. On the next page, check the RX (runway extension) distance in NM from the threshold (default is usually 5 NM).​
7. If you want a different length final, type the new distance in NM in the scratchpad and line‑select it into the RX field.​
8. Press LEGS and make sure the route flows from your last fix to RXxx, then to the runway, with no discontinuity you don’t want.​​
9. If there is a DISCONTINUITY, line‑select the next waypoint (for example, RXxx) over the discontinuity to close it.​
10. When the path looks correct, press EXEC to activate the visual approach.​​
11. Verify on the MFD that you see the extended runway centerline from RXxx to the runway.​​

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References

Sim video:
Hot Start Challenger 650 Collins Pro Line 21 FMS Basic & Advanced Procedures​

Flight Management System
FMS-3000 operator’s guide (Page 524)

Time

About 30 minutes

Equipment needed

• Jugs and/or 5# weights
• Chair with arms for L-sit (optional)
• A timer or clock

Warm up!

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10 slow hinges

10 slow lunges (assisted if needed)

4 x 20 second door jamb stretch

10 air squats (or sit-to-stand if needed)

30 jumping jacks

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Workout!

This is a Partner Workout. That means you will:

• Complete all of the movements between the two of you, splitting the reps evenly.
• While one partner completes their reps, the other partner holds an L-sit position (from ground or chair with arms).
• Don’t start your movements until your partner is in position.

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100 shoulder press negatives (use jugs or 5# weights)

100 floor presses (use jugs or 5# weights)

100 sprawls

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Score is the time your team took to finish all of the movements above.

Record your score in the comments below.

Time

About 30 minutes

Equipment needed

• 1 full one-gallon jug to share
• Couch
• A timer or clock

Warm up!

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10 slow hinges

10 slow lunges (assisted if needed)

4 x 20 second door jamb stretch

10 air squats (or sit-to-stand if needed)

30 jumping jacks

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Workout!

This is a Partner Workout. That means you will complete all of the movements between the two of you, splitting the reps evenly. While one partner completes their reps, the other partner rests and cheers the other one on.

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200 couch push-ups

100 leg raises over the jug

50 alternating single-leg deadlifts with jug

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Score is the time your team took to finish all of the movements above.

Record your score in the comments below.

Time

About 25 minutes

Equipment needed

• 2 full one-gallon jugs per person
• 2 chairs per person
• A timer or clock
• A method to keep track of how many rounds you do (putting change in a cup, or marks on a chalkboard)

Warm up!

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10 slow hinges

10 samson lunges

4 x 20 second door jamb stretch

10 couch push-ups

30 jumping jacks

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Workout!

15 minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) of these movements:

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20 weighted step-ups

10 weighted sit-to-stands

5 chair dips

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The above 3 sets of movements = 1 round. Your score is how many rounds you can do in 15 minutes.

Record your score in the comments below.

A tune my brother and I put together recently:

Happiness seekers tend to focus on changing their life circumstances, such as buying a new house, switching jobs, or getting married. However, people have been found to adapt to both positive and negative life changes, such as marriage, job promotion, disability, and widowhood. This process—known as hedonic adaptation—can serve as a formidable barrier to achieving lasting happiness.

Stability of Happiness, 2014

Is there something that you’ve always felt you were naturally good at? Think about that “talent” and try to remember all of the practice that you actually did to get good at that thing without realizing it.

Naturally fit? Maybe you grew up in an environment where you loved running around and climbing trees a lot – you were practicing without realizing it.

Naturally good at cooking? Maybe you’ve spent years putting together meals from your cabinets and learning what goes with what – again, practicing.

“I’m not naturally good at that” is really just a wrongheaded way of describing something that you haven’t practiced enough. If you find a fun way of practicing something without realizing it, then you will eventually become a “natural” at it.

I recently refurbed an old Atreus62 that I got used, and I’m loving it as my new office board.

It was originally built with Cherry MX Greens, which were waaaay too heavy and clicky for me, so I desoldered them and ordered and installed some Gateron Silent Browns, which I love. And not only that, but my coworking officemates also love them, because they are actually really silent. They took over four months to get here, due to COVID-related shipping backlog from China, but it was worth it.

Behold, my home board and my office board:

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My 3-year-old loves her music, but our SONOS speakers require a device (phone, computer, etc) to control them. She always has to rely on us to start her music for her.

Last week, I had an unprecedented day off; it was glorious time to let my mind create whatever it wanted. And apparently, messing around with an API was what it wanted.

Here’s the final product:

Features

• Touching a thumbnail will play that album or playlist from Spotify on the SONOS speaker in my daughter’s room.
• We can add a new playable item from our phones by saving something as a favorite in SONOS, and naming that playlist with the first part being my daughter’s name, e.g. “[Name] – Frozen 2”

Nitty Gritty

Interface

The touchscreen is an old Lenovo Yoga 13 I pulled out of the basement. It is pretty beat up and slow, but I gave it new life by loading Ubuntu onto it.

However, since I’m just loading this on a web page, you could do this on anything that is able to run node.js.

SONOS http API

The first step is getting something set up to interface with the SONOS API. If you’re not familiar with SONOS, the speakers in your house set up their own little wifi network, with one of the speakers acting as the master, that you can interface with.

In this case, I chose to use this API, since I knew I could whip up a webpage quickly to leverage it: https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api

This API allows you to control individual SONOS speakers on your network through simple http calls. Nice!

You first have to install node on your computer, then start the API running. It has to be running continuously for the interface to work.

Webpage

This is super hacky – don’t judge 😉 (I did it in one sitting on the couch)

One spring day, a girl and her best friend were lying in the grass, looking up at the clouds in the sky. “I wish I were a fairy,” said the girl.

”Maybe you are a fairy but you just don’t know it yet,” said her best friend.

”There’s only one way to find out,” said the girl.

So she got a tall ladder out of the garage and put it in the middle of the yard. “If I jump off the top and flap my arms really hard, I’ll probably fly away, just like a fairy!”

“Wait a minute,” said her friend, “what if you fly so fast, you get bugs in your eyes?”

So the girl climbed down, got her goggles, put them on, and climbed back up to the top of the tall ladder, ready to jump.

”Wait a minute,” said her friend, “what if your clothes catch on the trees when you fly by?”

So the girl climbed down, changed into her swimsuit (it was the tightest thing she had), and climbed back up to the top of the tall ladder, ready to jump.

”Wait one more minute,” said her friend, “how will you ever know that you’re flying, if you can’t see yourself?”

So the girl climbed down one last time, dragged the pool over to bottom of the ladder, filled it with a hose, so she could see her reflection in the water, and climbed back up to the top of the tall ladder.

She took a deep breath, counted to three, jumped off the ladder, and flapped her arms as hard as she could.

And for a moment, she thought she could fly, just like a fairy.

Then, she realized that she’s definitely not a fairy, and she fell down down down and splash, landed in the pool.

But since her arms were still flapping, she started to swim. She did three laps around the pool, then did a backflip and twirled around twice, grinning.

”Oh well, I guess you’re not a fairy,” said her best friend.

”That’s OK,” said the girl, “because I’m pretty sure I’m a mermaid!”

This month, I was lucky enough to spend a week in Charlotte taking the 3-day intensive leadership training course that was lead by Reboot. I’m sure there are many recaps and reviews that try to take 3 days worth of jam-packed content and try to distill it into a single post. Instead, I will drop in some takeaways and bite-sized quotes that will give you a flavor of what it was like from my perspective.

TL;DR Reboot was valuable. Here are some tidbits and thoughts of my own.

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We take actions based on beliefs.

To generate action, first generate belief in the motivation behind that action.

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Stress can result in leaders treating people like problems.

When someone brings something to you, don’t assume that it’s a problem that you need to take action with. If you’re tempted to take action or offer a solution, ask first if that’s what they need.

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The number one indicator of a high performing team is psychological safety.

This has been obvious to see with the Prospress acquisition. Our team went from being in a safe space and clear sense of belonging to a period of lack of clarity around where we belong. Ideally, we are and can continue to work our way back to belonging, and by extension, being a high performing team.

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Asking good questions is the most underused leadership skill.

My thoughts: what are your thoughts on that?

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Code poetry tends to go above my head, but puns are right on my level.

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