4 day weeks are nice too

I think every weekend should be a 3-day weekend. Although it makes getting up Tuesday that much more difficult. Had a 'fire-hose' sim today but it actually went pretty well. The instructor was speaking a mile a minute and it gave me a pretty good idea of what I can look at to look slightly less stupid on my first flights. This involved departing from Laughlin, flying the departure to Wizard, which is a Laughlin Auxiliary field, doing a touch n go there, then climbing to the ELP High key which is the special pattern used for emergency procedures, doing another landing then going into the MOA for a few stalls, a spin and some uncontrolled flight recoveries. Followed by departing the MOA for Laughlin performing a straight-in landing followed by a couple in the pattern. Apparently this is more than we normally ever do in one 'real' flight but it's supposed to kinda scare you at all the stuff you COULD have to do. 

Besides that, we met our flight commanders and some of the IP's for our flight today, which was cool. They seem alright but they're ALL "FAIP's". This is First Assignment Instructor Pilot. Basically, they graduated pilot training and went straight to flight instructor school and are here now before any, well, Non-training assignment. This basically means we'll have guys who are 100 up-to-date with the training requirements but will expect a lot out of us. AKA it's not gonna be easy street for the next 5 months. 

Finally, we had a couple more weather classes. We'll have 2 more tomorrow and then the Test on Thursday, which is our last day of academics. We report to the flightline on Friday and some of us may get our "dollar rides". This being your initial ride where the IP kinda intro's certain aspects of the pattern and such - though supposedly they still expect you to have certain things down at that point and will call you out on it.

So that's the deal; Test Thursday, Flightline Friday. Wish me luck... :)