Saturday, September 20, 2008

Little Speed-bump

Ah Sorry about the long delay in updating this thing, it's been a busy week. I flew Mon, Tues, Wed and there was a lot of learning going on in those flights. I finished the first "block" of flights, they group the flights into blocks and there's certain requirements you need to meet by the last flight of the block in order to progress. After this next block, 6 more flights or so I would be scheduled to solo, pretty crazy! 

As far as the speed-bump is concerned I missed the required score on the instruments test Thursday morning by 1 question - bummer. So I had use my mulligan on that one leaving me with 4 tests remaining and if I was to fail 2 more I'd get the boot. But that's not going to happen so we don't need to worry about that. It's a lot more difficult to try and get ready for those tests when your concentrating so much on trying to fly better. 

Next weeks going to be a lot of work and I'll be expected to bring every aspect of my flying up to a level where they trust me to go fly a $4 Million airplane around by myself, so I'll be trying to make the most of tomorrow and make Monday a good ride. I'll be with a new instructor tomorrow but I think he'll be good, I've sat in on a few of his debriefs and he seems very thorough and my buddy has said he's learned more flying one flight with him than 3 rides with his previous instructor. Today we might go see that movie 'burn after reading' and relax a bit. Thanks for checking up~

2 comments:

DAM said...

It is nice to see you speaking positively CJ.

Your time at UPT is flying, can you believe you arrived there over 2 months ago? A little speed bump is bound to happen and you're doing an amazing job (as usual). I know you don't have a lot of time to get everything done but you really are managing it all well! I'm proud (as everyone else is!)

Anonymous said...

i keep thinking that movie is called "burn before reading" but then i have to continually remind myself that... that wouldn't make sense.