long (good) day

Started off with an intoduction to one of the basic simulators. There's a few different kinds apparnently - I was in the basic one where it's a full mock-up of the cockpit with working screens and buttons, etc but there's no screen to actually fly visually. Then there's types that are in dark room with screen in front of you (perhaps behind also I'm not positve). And finally, they have some full motion, full screen models where you feel like your in the real thing. 

The simulators are all run by civillian instructors who are former Military Pilots, mostly AF - some Navy. Our dude was really cool and explained stuff well and was easy to talk to and made it enjoyable. It was helpful to see how some of the buttons actually work to get a better of idea of what does what. Of course we only scratched the surface, but for the test it was definitely nice. 

That being said - after the sim I had some time to study and took my test and got a 98. We have another exam on Systems 2 on Friday but supposedly that one is much easier so I'll try to split my time with that and looking over some flying stuff since all I keep hearing is that we have a huge amount of free time right now and once we start flying I'll be so overly tasked I won't have time to sleep - or something like that.

In other news, I hope everyone got a chance to watch that 4x100 mens relay last night. I wouldn't call myself a HUGE swimming fan or anything resembling being knowledgeable on the sport but that was one of the coolest things I'v seen in any sport - right up there with some phillies comeback wins.