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An ILS Approach After 14 Years – A Journey Through Time and Skills

  Shooting an ILS approach after 14 years. It was on Microsoft flight simulator, but it was worth knowing, it was consoling to know that I still know the things. I decided to fly out from Lakefront airport, as I was familiar with the environment. I decided to fly out to Gulfport airport which is just over 50 nautical miles from Lakefront airport at New Orleans. It was the flight path which was flown by me when I did my first cross-country flight. I asked for an IFR clearance and it was given as cleared for Gulfport airport as filed asking me to climb to 3000 feet. I was on runways 18R and decided to keep the climate foggy to get a real feel of using the ILS approach. I put in the throttle and climbed out, after a positive rate of climb I made a left turn to 067 degrees. The GPS showed that the airport was 54 NM from here. Since it was all white outside there was not anything to look around except to track the instruments. It was easy to maintain the altitude however, it was difficu...

7 of 10 for Cafe 21 Restaurant at Shri Anandpur Sahib

Raise your hand if you don't like to eat out! If anyone claims to be so, than it is certainly not true, for there wouldn't be so many restaurants coming up. I don't remember a weekend when me and my wife had food at home! Well, it is certainly nothing to be proud of, but this is how we are. This past weekend we camped at Cafe 21 restaurant at Shri Anandpur Sahib to subside our hunger for diverse food.  After juggling through the menu we picked up two items, this is a drill in which 99% of the time I come first. I should say my wife come second, not the last, to avoid her from obvious shame!! Anyways, we picked up a paneer grilled taco and veg. burger.  So after ordering the stuff it barely took 5 minutes for the first dish to arrive on our table. I would call this ETA to be under standard test conditions as there was none else dining at that time. The first item to come on our table was the veg burger, and I must say that I liked how it was served. I mean the plate was cute...

5 out of 10 for the New Restaurant "Roots" at Shri Anandpur Sahib Ji

ऊँची दुकान फीके पकवान  I have heard this quote nearly 1000 times and I have used this quote nearly 1000 times. In the latest, the dine out me and my wife had on a weekend evening fit rightly with this quote The location is Shri Anandpur Sahib, this one of the primary religious place of Sikhs is frequently visited by me.  10 years back when I visited this place for the first time I fell in love with it instantly. The roads of this place were almost empty and were much different from the extreme chaos I used to experience in Delhi or even Chandigarh. Visiting Shri Keshgarh Sahib for the first time was memorable too. However, there was nothing much to visit here except for fulfilling your religious sentiments. Interestingly there were no good restaurants back than other than few small dhabas, one main reason was the Guru Ka Langar that is being served here. The primary motive of almost all the visitors coming here was to have the blessings of Guru Ji by eating at the Guru Ka Lang...

The Changing Phases of Human Nature #1

We all know people change around us. Someone who is a friend today may turn into an enemy tomorrow, or the other way around. I too have seen people change. Someone who claims something today may change their stand tomorrow. Recently, I went through a series of episodes that highlighted the changing verdicts of people.  Episode 1 Around 4 months back, a content writer named Himala joined where I work. On the very first day, she expressed her anger that tea was not served in our department. I said, it is the way it is, and if someone wants to have tea during office hours, then they can purchase their own. By the end of the day, she was so angry that she wanted to talk with the HR department or with the Head of our department. She was reasoning as to how a person survives for a full 8 hours without tea at the office. She also expressed that it is nearly impossible for her to stay in this situation and that she is a die-hard caffeine addict. For the next 2 - 3 days she was quite dissat...