Author Archives: Ross
Around Cape Point by Powered Paraglider
Yesterday yielded the opportunity to do one of the premier Cape powered paraglider flights – Cape Point. The PPG is an incredibly portable and versatile aircraft, but with a cruising speed of only around 25 knots and maximum sustainable speed peaking at 37 knots for the fastest XC wings, we need ideal wind conditions to [...]
Greyton to Botrivier PPG
My good mate Ant of The Aerial Perspective was very kind to invite me along to Greyton, where he needed to take some pictures. We cruised out there in the Vito early this morning to find the town dead still (wind and street-life) with heavy dew on the ground, and so we stopped at a local coffee shop [...]
Great SA PPG video
Eish… the work, she has been too much. I have been nose-to-grindstone for quite some time, but the experience has been incredibly rich, with a number of firsts. Some of those stories will follow, I hope, but the blog takes a back seat at these times. Unfortunately, the flying has also been exceptionally sparse. In [...]
SASA 2013 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Full set
Wow, I’m exhausted. The 2013 South African Society of Anaesthesiologists congress was a fabulous success, with huge kudos going to the local and national bodies who did all the hard work. I was particularly gobsmacked by the quality of the registrar presentations, but everything from the overseas guest speakers down to the ice-cream stand was [...]
Grrr… “To err is human; to really muck up you need a computer”
A glitch somewhere in the Matrix has caused all the permalinks (the nice descriptive links to my blog’s posts and page) to fail. We’re busy looking for the problem, but haven’t found it yet, so if you’ve landed up on the home page after trying to follow a link from elsewhere, I apologize. You can find [...]
SASA 2013 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Congress Day 2
I was taking part and listening to the Registrar Communications stream for most of the day today, which was absolutely fantastic (even if I say so myself!). The quality was phenomenal. As a consequence of doing my own talk, however, I didn’t transcribe all of the others. Here’s the rest, and some updated notes: SASA [...]
SASA 2013 – Rough Notes – Congress Day 1
The first day of the main congress has just been completed. I felt strongly about attending the registrar research stream in the afternoon after the plenaries, which proved to be fascinating and of very high quality. Unfortunately, my battery again suffered for the last two talks, so I apologize that those were not transcribed. The [...]
Beautiful time-lapse photography
Stumbled across this while doing other things and couldn’t help wanting to share. Watch in HD if you can. Folks from Cape Town and surrounds will particularly enjoy the new visions of familiar scenery… A Lapse in Time – 2012 Time Lapse Showreel of Rory Allen from Rory on Vimeo.
SASA 2013 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Day 2
Here are the updated notes after the second day of the refresher course. I still have to find a chance to transcribe the notes from yesterday after my laptop battery died. Day 2 is complete. SASA 2013 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Day 2 (incomplete)
SASA Congress 2013 – Ross’ Rough Notes – Refresher Day 1
The annual South African Society of Anaesthesiologists Congress for 2013 is underway in Port Elizabeth, where we are being treated to good organisation, excellent weather and great hospitality. I’m trying to keep some rough scribbles to jog my memory down the road. As usual, I offer these notes to the wider community with the caveats [...]
