I also flew the last emergency procedure sim prior to soloing today and it went A-ok. My buddy aaron was the first from our class to solo today; his wife and daughter came out and a group of us ganged up on him and tossed him in the "solo tank". A pilot training tradition where you get tossed in this dinky pool full of nasty water after you solo - It's a lot of fun and he was a good sport. I can't believe that I'll be doing that early next week (if everything goes well!)
We're left with very little time, it's 8 right now and I can't believe I have to sleep and be back there at 730 tomorrow. Hopefully I can get a decent hour of studying in before my brain shuts off and get some sleep. We had another "welcome to pilot training, etc." brief today. Oh yeah, everything here is a brief somehow - there's no presentations or meetings it's briefing after briefing. But anyway, yeah it was the same old stuff but he went around the room asking who was academy, ots, rotc, etc. and finished asking who was from the Academy of Minimum Standards heh and of course this is the commissioning program for the Air Nat'l Guard... kinda amusing (kinda not). What was funnier was that one of the AF Academy guys thought he meant "who graduated from the academy by meeting the minimum standards" and raised his hand. It was cool though This Lt. Colonel is from Cherry Hill and is a big Eagles fan and told me I'm not allowed to bring up that I'm an Eagles fan if he does an 89 ride with me. (this is where the commander takes you for your "last chance" ride to determine whether you get the boot or stay in training if your messing up - hopefully that won't be required).
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