Light at the end of the tunnel

I have been working the local aviation scene in and around San Antonio for some time now. I have met some great people. If only I had more time and experience built up! With very little flying work available you do all you can do to keep moving forward, even if it doesn't add any flight time to your logbook.

Finally I am seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel. I have been in contact with a somewhat local flight school who is hiring. I am waiting for the call for the interview. I'm pretty much guaranteed the interview, I just need to get them to schedule it. It sounds like a great opportunity. They have plenty of students and I would be flying with at least 4 students per day! it's wait and see for now. I hope to know before the end of the week if I'm employed full time again.

Freelancing is still a tough avenue right now. I have met some people and gained a few new customers but nothing that keeps me busy full time. I have a friend who manages a Challenger 300 for a famous country singer who also does A&P and IA work on the side. I have been working with him for a while which has been a good source for contacts. We installed Vortex Generators on a Cessna 310 a while back, and while doing the work I met the owner. I have since had the opportunity to fly with him. He needed to do an instrument proficiency. Fortunately for us the weather agreed with us and we were able to do it in actual IMC conditions. It was soft IFR but it is still much better than using foggles.

I had the chance to go up the 172 the other day to keep working on my proficiency. We also stopped for the proverbial $100 hamburger. I don't know why it is so appealing to jump in a plane and fly somewhere for a hamburger, but it is a lot of fun.
I hope to report good news very soon!

The Pain of Aviation

Aviation...explaining it with words is very difficult. From that first flight you never look to the sky the with the same eyes. you see something most other earth bound humans just cannot see. For many aviation becomes a passion, maybe even an obsession. I have a friend who is a Doctor in St Louis, his wife jokes he doesn't have platelets in his blood he has planelets. He is passionate about flying. Put two pilots who do not know each together, and suddenly they can talk for hours, as if they have known each other forever. Get a group together, their like a family. When you get that news that of your fellow aviators dies, it's like a family member dies.
I frequent an aviation forum on the internet. jetcareers.com This morning I found out one of our brothers took his last flight. I have not found out the details yet. really it does not matter. Yet! I will eventually look into and try to read the NTSB report, because every accident is a learning experience, and we we learn something, hopefully we will be able to prevent another such accident.
I did not know Ben personally. Only by his "screen name" on the forum. He was a great guy from what I could tell. Loved his family, and was passionate about flying.

I have lost a few friends now to aviation, it's never easy. I have to admit when I took off today in the C182 I had to test fly I had a lump in my throat and my thoughts where with Ben's Family, and my own. I had that "what if it had been me" thought. What if it had been my family that just had their world pulled out from under them.

I have to remind myself that our time here is short, God can call us home any time. It really doesn't matter what we doing, I believe when it's out time its our time. It still doesn't make it easy.

Flyer's Prayer
By Patrick J. Phillips

When this life I'm in is done,
And at the gates I stand,
My hope is that I answer all
His questions on command.

I doubt He'll ask me of my fame,
Or all the things I knew,
Instead, He'll ask of rainbows sent
On rainy days I flew.

The hours logged, the status reached,
The ratings will not matter.
He'll ask me if I saw the rays
And how He made them scatter.

Or what about the droplets clear,
I spread across your screen?
And did you see the twinkling eyes.
If student pilots keen?

The way your heart jumped in your chest,
That special solo day-
Did you take time to thank the one
Who fell along the way?

Remember how the runway lights
Looked one night long ago
When you were lost and found your way,
And how-you still don't know?

How fast, how far, how much, how high?
He'll ask me not these things
But did I take the time to watch
The moonbeams wash my wings?

And did you see the patchwork fields
And mountains I did mould;
The mirrored lakes and velvet hills,
Of these did I behold?

The wind he flung along my wings,
On final almost stalled.
And did I know I it was His name,
That I so fearfully called?

And when the goals are reached at last,
When all the flying's done,
I'll answer Him with no regret-
Indeed, I had some fun.

So when these things are asked of me,
And I can reach no higher,
My prayer this day - His hand extends
To welcome home a Flyer.


God Speed Ben...Please everyone keep Ben's family in your prayers. The will need them!

Grass...

There is just something about a grass runway. Maybe it's just me, but There is something special about it.

Zuehl field began life as an auxiliary field for Randolph Air Force base in 1932. Randolph had just opened in 1930, it was named after Captain William Millican Randolph, a native of Austin who was on the Randolph base naming committee at the time of his death. CPT Randolph died in a plane crash returning to his home base after a meeting.

We have been working at Zuehl Field for a couple weeks. We are doing an annual on a 182, and an engine an a debonair.

I like the country feeling a small grass field offers. Sometimes it is fun to play with the big boys, and taxi out behind an md11, but other times it's just nice to be on a small quite little field, knowing if you want to go for a ride around the patch you can just jump in, fire-up and pull onto a runway and go!

The other side to the small air field is you tend to see a few of these

This Mooney has been on the ground for at least 8 years. For someone who loves to fly and would love to own their own plane, it makes you sick to see one sitting and rotting away! You have to wonder what the owner is thinking!

On the other side of the field sits this beauty. again, unfortunately she has not flown for awhile.
Its an amazing looking airplane. I'm not sure what happened but in 1997 she was in Oakland CA being rebuilt, notice the old United paint scheme had been put on. after all that work she now sits in a field.


I would have loved seeing it land on that grass field. Reports are that the owner landed on a small wheat field next to zuehl field (this wheat field had been a runway during the military days) The landing roll was under 900 feet. I would have loved to see that! There is supposedly a video, if I ever find it I will post it!

This airplane also as an interesting History. She began life as an Air Force C118 53-3279

Later it became Navy 53-3279 and flew trans Atlantic and through out Europe.

It flew under Navy colors until 1983. Also note worthy she has come home in a sense, It began life in the Air Force in 1954 being assigned to Randolph AFB, and now back at Randolph Auxiliary Zeuhl field.

The plane is in flying condition, it's about 90% complete, but because of litigation the owner has been unable to finish restoration. The shame of it is its a group of pilots fighting the owner.

That is the great thing about a small field, you just don't know what will pop up next, sometimes they are full of great stories.

Bringing it back?

I got an email a few days ago, What can we do with her? She has been on the ground for about 4 years now. A couple of A&P's later she is sitting in pieces, and I have no real idea what it would take to bring her back from the dead. I have a couple phone calls in to see what the cost would be to taker her apart and truck it to Alpine Tx, where the owner has an A&P he would like to work on it. There is a shop here at KSAT that would be happy too get the work, but after 4 years sitting outside, they cannot even begin to estimate how much it would cost. Shop rate of $75, trying to figure out what parts are missing, how much corrosion is in the fuel system, engines, and airframe. I would love to see her fly again! The owner would like to use it for business (he travels all over Texas) and I would love to fly him around! So now we wait for all the quotes to come in and then he will make a decision! It will be interesting to see if this old bird will fly again!

Beautiful Day to fly!!!

Saturday Morning I had the chance to go fly. My father-in-law wanted to get the 172 out and stretch it's legs. I REALLY Needed to brush up my Instrument Skills too! Once I got to the airport I noticed a T6II sitting on the ramp, along with a few other planes. I just recently got a new Phone so I figured I would try out the camera (since I forgot my digital camera at home)

Even an old Lockheed Jetstar, waiting for her new life in Mexico.

Which was next to a 601

So finally we are ready to go. So we figure we will head out from KSAT to Divine for an NDB approach, Return to KSSF Stinson
for the VOR 32 circle to land 14 (plus a hold over SSF vor). Stinson is an interesting Airport, A lot of History there. it i sthe second oldest GA airport in the country!, and then return to KSAT for an ILS12R.
The Air was incredibly smooth. Under the hood while climbing I had the feeling we were not even moving we felt like we where simply suspended. En route to Devine we could not pick up a signal from the NDB, so we broke off, and steered toward SSF VOR. Listening to KSAT approach it was a busy day at the SSF VOR with two in the hold, and one on the approach. Luckily once we got there it had cleaned out, for the most part. One lap around the hold, and then the VOR approach and we were done. Go missed turn heading 090 contact KSAT approach. SAT App. gave us 310 on the heading and 3500,vectors for the ILS12r. They were nice enough to send me out over my house so I could snap a couple pictures of our area (did not ask for it, just the way it worked out).
Of course just in front of us a small cloud bank is building up at 3500
...Right where we need to be, and of course app is suddenly very busy and doing his rapid fire routine. Had it not gotten so busy all of a sudden I would have simply asked for a local IFR clearance and pushed on, but he had a flight of 3 F16 somewhere right in front of us...also at 3500 so I decided to just ask for 3000 to clear the clouds and remain VFR.
Finally on the 12R ils app into KSAT things have settled down again, the rapid fire transmissions from atc were back to a more relaxed tone. Not the best Instrument approaches I have ever done, but they would have gotten me home if I had been in the clouds. All in all It was a great day. Great flying weather, and just plane fun! Flying the way it should be!!!

SOOOO SLOOOWWW!

It's so hard to believe we went from hiring 250hr wonder pilots into the right seat of a 70 passenger jet, to begging for a CFI job. Its the classic catch 22. You end up with 250hrs (ish) after receiving your commercial certificate, and there are NO jobs for pilots with 250 hours total time. So you get your CFI. Because you can always flight instruct to build time, right? Maybe, maybe not. So here we are a year and half later, even go jets is 1000tt min. Flight schools who were desperate for CFI's are now laying off. So what do you do? As a commercial pilot you have to stay proficient, but how do you do that when there is no flying to be had? The one thing you can do is learn to be flexible. I'm not flying much, but I am trying to adapt to our new strange situation. I have been working ON airplanes not in them. I know two A&P, IA's who are willing to put me to work working on airplanes. I do not have my A&P (aircraft mechanics license) but under their supervision I can work on planes. Its interesting. I am not a mechanic, I really do not like working on things, but being flexible helps keep me plugged in, For instance, I just installed a set of vortex generators on a Cessna 310. While working on the plane, I met the owner, he needs an Instrument Proficiency check. Flying work...oh yeah! Working with the other A&P has also afforded me a few flying opportunities. He was doing an annual on a Cessna P-210. I had never flown a 210 so I jumped at the chance to deliver this plane for maintenance, and of course test flights. A few more hours in the log book! I have also flown the pa23 twin Geronimo I mentioned a couple post back! It's great to get twin time, especially PIC solo multi time. So it's frustrating to not be flying full time, Sometimes it really is very frustrating. As a pilot All you want to do is fly. I'll keep plugging along! Something will happen, we just have to be ready for it!

HOT

We have been stuck in this heat wave for so long now. I'm sooo tired of HOT! Its been triple digits for 4-5 weeks now. I really want to get busy with work, but at the same time flying in this weather is horrible. KSAT is 809 elevation. Yesterday at 1pm DA was 3500. We have been having 2500 DA early in the morning. I had a guy who called me for instruction last week, but he owned a 150. We would have spent a two hour lesson just climbing to altitude! I called a friend who is furloughed from an airline and asked him if he would like to work with him. This friend had offered to fly with with me when I was working on my commercial ticket. He was going to fly one trip with me for free! "Pay it forward" kinda thing. We are both members of the Jet Career forum which is big on networking. So, by offering to do something for me, it turned out to help him when he needed some help! That's what aviation is. I try to help others out too. maybe someday it will turn around and help me out!
Aviation is a small world. It is much better to have a good name, people ALWAYS remember the people who have bad attitudes!
Now If I could just find someone who has a great high performance plane with A/C...at least until late sept who need full time instruction! :-)

the 10 day for cast is calling for temps between 99 and 105 woo hoo!

MORE GOVERNMENT?!?!

I tend to keep this blog focused on aviation. Even though I do not have a "personal" blog where I talk about whats on my mind. I like flying, no I love flying. If I were one to talk about non-aviation things I most certainly would speak about my Faith. I am a completely sold out follower of Jesus Christ. I do write about it sometimes on another blog, that I'm contributor on for a church group. So I do not think of it as mine. But I have a rant today. I'm so sick of our new administration trying to ram all this useless and wasteful garbage down our throats. Tonight abc aired an infomercial of obama (guess who paid for it, not him!) talking about HIS desire for a national health care. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! I was at the post office today trying to by stamps at 230pm. Not lunch time or some other time you would think would be busy. There were at least 30 people in line. this location ALWAYS has a huge line. You watch the "workers" as they move in super slow motion obviously not giving a single care in the world. Last month I had to go pay my tax on my car (which I already paid tax on when I bought it...hmmm they should have some kinda rule about double taxing people) it was the same scenario. They move at a snails pace, they could care less. Their hours m-f 8-5. I have never had hours like that in my life. There is no such thing as customer service when dealing with the government. They act like they are doing you a favor by even looking at you, and now this guy wants to turn our medical system into another government institution. HELLO, ask a Canadian what they think of their health care. Find out why they come over here for health care! I just cannot believe people would want the government in charge of their health care. Guess what you will NOT get something for nothing! Our Country is broke, there is no way we can continue to waste and spend and build even bigger government!!! If this happens, if he get this shoved down our throats i can only begin to imagine what will happen to our economy then. God help us! I want our Country to recover and for business to pick up. I'm ready for aviation to recover. If you cut your arm you don't stop the bleeding by making the cut bigger! You need to wrap it up and stop the bleeding.
No I'm sorry we close in 10 minutes, please bring your severed arm back with you tomorrow. when you return you need to have these forms filled out, and notarized. Please bring your photo id, ss card, passport to prove citizenship. Yes the service is free, but there is a $200 processing fee for the paper work. and there is a users fee for the operating room. There is also a clean up fee, if you spill any blood we have to bring in the haz-mat clean up team and there is a user fee for that too!

ok rant off. Seriously I hope we as a country can focus on getting our economy running again, getting people back to work, and start enjoying what we love the most...Flying!

Welcome to the web.

Well, I finally broke down and created a website. The flight schools are not hiring here and I need work, so I figure its time to go freelance. I also teamed up with a couple other cfi's and an A&P so we could offer a more full service product. be sure to go by and check it out. www.victoryaviation.net Now the huge task of "linking" it with other sites. From what I have been told its easier to be "found" on the web if you are more linked to other sites. I'm very much a newbie to the whole website thing so this is a huge learning experience. But hey, if someone moves your cheese you have to go find new cheese! OK, if you have never read the book "who moved my cheese" you don't get that last statement, if you have not read it, you should! It should be required reading by all high school students in my opinion! So here we are in a bad economy, what do we do? I don't know about you but I keep moving forward. Take flight training, it has moved to a crawl. If one was a smart person right now is the time to begin flight training. WHY you ask, because in a year or year and half when you are done flight training, and you have built some time hiring WILL be back to full swing. Ask the guys who got hired on at the beginning of the last big hiring swing what they think, and then ask the guys who hired on at the end. They are the one who are now furlough and are looking for jobs, or are now going back to school and jumping out of the aviation industry. Now is the time. Yes it stinks not having work, but when the next hiring boom happens, I will be ready!
For now I go look for the next piece of cheese

Where are the students

Where oh where are the student's tonight, why did you leave me here all alone....Ok, I don't know why but that silly Hee Haw tune popped into my head today. I know, many of you are saying what in the world is Hee Haw? It was this horrible show that my father loved to watch when I was a kid.
I'm sorry now you have it stuck in your head too, don't you?

In all seriousness, It is amazing how quickly flight training has dropped off to nothing. My flight school is barely getting by, and I know several others are in the same boat. One of the big reasons our school is slow, is that the Indian market is drying up. Hiring by the airlines in India was very strong, and now its dropped to nothing. I'm still optimistic that things will turn around. I'm not sure how quickly, but it will turn. In the mean time, it's time to get creative. I need to start working the local market a little harder. I figure you can sit around and feel sorry for yourself, or you can try to make something new happen.

So, anyone in San Antonio need a flight instructor, personal pilot, or anything else? :-)

I have a friend in Oregon, his school is doing quite well. I am curious how schools around the country doing. I know my Friends In Kansas city could use a little more business. We just have to hang in there, be ready to change. Just like planning a flight, You have to be ready to change the plan at any moment. Fly Safe everyone.

MEI...Finally!

I was in Kansas City again last week. I had to go back and finish my MEI. Now I'm a Multi Engine Instructor!!! WOOHOO! It really was pretty uneventful. My Multi flying was a little rusty, and I felt like a beginner again (truth be told in twins I am a beginner) but it went well enough that the examiner felt I could teach others to fly twins. I was flying good ole N125RJ
I like the Twin Comanche, they are a fun plane to fly!
I like the airport (GPH) Midwest national (except for the name). It's in Mosby Missouri. I did manage to swing over to the St Louis side of Missouri and visit my parents for couple days.
I have to say that the guys at Career Pilot School are really good guys! I have been there three times now, I had some bumps in the road , but Michael who was the owner stands buy his word! He is smart enough of a man to know in this industry a good name is absolutely necessary! Aviation is to small a world, and word travels fast when you have a bad name. He is also a good instructor. The new owner of CPS was also good enough to honor the previous arrangement I had with Michael. I flew with Patrick who was able to get me done in three days! I took the exam with Ron Albertson, who is a great guy, with a load of experience. I like taking check rides with him, because I guarantee you will walk away having learned something!

So, Now I am all done CFI, CFII, and MEI. NOW WHAT? Thats the million dollar question right now. Every body is so slow, not even flight schools are hiring. Just a year ago they were begging for CFI's. What a difference a year makes. Its a catch 22, you have a commercial license (Multi and Single), you have all three CFI's, but you don't have enough hours to get a job (other than a cfi). So what do you do? Seriously any suggestions???? :-) The big picture is I'm not worried about it, My Faith in God makes me believe He is in control, and He will meet my needs!

I'm just really excited to be done with formal training for a while. I guess the next thing I will prepare for in the next 1000 hours is the ATP. I have a little time to prepare for that!

So lets look at where I was and where I am. 2007, decided to pursue flying as a career after 17 years in transportation. Working part time on IR, Feb of 2008 decided to go to school full time to finish and try to catch the last hiring wave. I finished up my CSEL CMEL, Cfi, Cfii in just a couple months, started working as a CFI, and to step away from flying for a while (but made my goal of being a commercial pilot by the time I was 40). It really Stinks to be in this slow time right now with no work, but I'm still very excited about my future! For those who might read this and are either in training, or would like to become a pilot. DO IT! There is a lot of negative talk out there right now, but it all boils down to this, If you want to fly, if that is your passion, just do it! Good luck!

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Where is your hand? between two pillows...THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!! John Candy and Steve martin. What A great movie! So why am I talking about Trains, Planes, and Automobiles? I had a guy who wanted me to drive to Alpine Texas with him, so I could fly his Mooney back to San Antonio. Sounds like a nice trip. I had never been to that part of west Texas.



So of we go in his vehicle on a 5.5 hr road trip. I had some second thoughts about going.


The plane had just come out of "annual". I have worked on and around airplanes long enough to know a fresh annual doesn't mean a thing. Well, When we arrived to the Hanger, I realized my reservation were well founded. The plane had obviously not been touched for a long time. You could tell by the solid coat of dirt over the entire plane, with not recent marks in the dirt. I wont bore you with the other details, but lets just say the plane was not airworthy! After some attempts in trouble shooting and fixing issues the owner decided it was best to park the plane and try again another day. So...now I'm 5.5 hours from home, in the middle of nowhere Texas and He was not going home for some time. What options do I have? Only one, a Train stops in alpine. Ok, so I have never been on a train...legally! After the arrangements were made I found out it was an 8 hour train ride. I'm still thinking it sounds like an interesting adventure. So there i was waiting at a train station in middleofnowhere Texas waiting for a train.



I was surprised to find the seat are comfortable.



Very wide, reclines nicely, and even have leg, and foot rest. I was one car behind the lounge car, which had big windows and seats that sat sideways.



Great for watching the scenery go buy.





The length of the trip was a bit long.




I did not get back into town until 1030pm. all in all it wasn't bad. It reminds me of why I like aviation...you just NEVER know what will happen next. You always have to be ready to make new plans!

Poll anyone?

My friend Rand recently did a poll on who was reading his blog. Honestly I do not know who comes by here and reads this. I do have a counter so I know it gets hits, but I have not really looked at the history of visits in months. At one time I knew this blog had hits from 13 different countries. I never really thought this blog would have any "followers" since its just my random thoughts about where I have been so far in my short aviation career. I wanted to be able to keep track of what is going on. Kinda like a log book. I go back every now and then and look at my old log book entries. It triggers memories of past experiences and flights. I try to add information in my log book entries not just about flight details, but where I went, with who, did we go for a $100 hamburger...was it any good? Was it their first flight? It is interesting to read those older entries. So back to Rand, He was curious who was reading his blog, and it made me curious too. I would like to know about your aviation background. If you care to share check out the poll to the right. Feel free to leave a comment if you would like to share in more detail your flying experience...or non-flying as I am sure there might be a pilot to be reading the blog too :-)

In Memory of...

First I want to offer my condolences to the friends and families of the victims of flight 3407. God bless you. You all will be in my prayers. I was shocked to wake up and see the news on the web that a Dash-8 had gone down. For those of us in aviation, especially General Aviation we know and understand that accidents can and do happen. We never like to see it, but obviously we do learn from it, and it continues to make aviation the safest form of transportation. With each accident we learn something new. Just today I watched a video produced by NASA talking about tailplane stalls due to icing. I had never heard of this before and the stall characteristics and recovery of a tail stall are completely different then for a wing stall. There is speculation at this point that icing is what cased the accident of 3407. we will not know for sure for some time. I know crashes like this make big news. There is a lot of false information being reported, and there are even those who publicly are saying horrible things about the crew. The simple fact is there was a crash. We lost brothers, and sisters, moms and dads, and sons and daughters. Let the pros do their job, figure out what happened, and lets all learn from it. Now let's honor the memory of those who perished.

Learning to fly!

WOW, $100 to learn to fly with a "qualified" flight Instructor! The funny thing is, half of those planes are still sitting on a flightline somewhere still flying!

Something old...

So just a day after flying the Geronimo, my friends ask me if I can pick up a Mooney for him. Sure why not, I love Mooneys! Come to find out it was the Mooney I used to own! It had an annual due. It was a nice surprise
Then he comes to me asking if I would take the 150 into KSAT leave it and pick up the Mooney. better yet. The 150 is another plane I owned before. It is also fun to fly. It has a 150 horse engine in it rather then the factory 100 horse. This thing leaps off the ground!



Here is my arrival into KSAT
It ended up getting very turbulent on th ereturn trip, and it had turned into a cross wind at Kestrel, which made for an interesting landing. It has been an interesting few days, you just never know whats going to pop up next!

Something new...

You know its a good feeling when you have one of those "I just love flying" days. After fighting the weather the last few days today was perfect. Calm wind, clear skies, cool temps. I had to meet a friend at KSAT to pick up a plane that needs an annual. I have never flown a PA-23-160 Geronimo conversion. Basically it's an old Piper aztec that went through a face lift and engine upgrade. It is always fun to fly a new plane. It is not easy. Things are in different locations, and it takes a little getting used to. Then the second part of the challenge was flying it into Kestral airpark. It is an interesting little airport. A 3000 ft runway that slopes down the side of a hill. If you look close you can see the drop. Coming in from the Northwest your approaching the top of the hill (Approaching from the NW in the photo above). Just after you cross over the numbers the runway drops out from under you. Lucky for me winds where calm, or slightly out of the north. This allowed me the peace of mind that I could roll out up hill, in case I came in a little fast and landed long. Which I did. It was a smooth approach, but I have a habit of carrying a little extra airspeed if I am unfamiliar with the plane. It was still a nice touch down and rolled out without braking. I was impressed with the Geronimo. It was fast, had a great climb rate, and was a very stable plane! Even though I had never flown one, I had no problems flying it at all! I'm not sure why, but it is always fun adding a new type of plane to the logbook, and trying new airports. I think that's why aviation is so appealing. There is so much to do, learn, and experience. Each day, every flight brings something new. while Flying I look down and feel sorry for the 99.5% of the population that will never experience the freedom, the excitement, and adventure that pilots enjoy. Monday I get to ferry a Mooney over for an annual. This one will not be new as I used to own her! It will be nice to see her again! Fly Safe

Happy New Year!

Wow, almost half way through January! There is a lot going on right now. Things could be better, could be worse. I have an offer on the table to fly for a private party. A guy I met through a friend has two planes and wants to hire a pilot to fly Him around. I'm working on a proposal to give him. It will be a little while before the plane is ready to go. It is going through some maintenance right now. I was working with an A&P friend today. He is doing an annual on a plane I used to own and he needed a little help. I don't mind working on them once a while, but I don't think I could do it as a career. Well, it seems that 2009 will be an interesting year for me. Hopefully I will have some great news to report over the next couple months, of course the other side of that coin is that I could have some bad news...My cup is half full though, So i believe I will have good news...Have a great 2009 everyone!