wow

So I had my dollar ride yesterday! recap: this is where the IP takes you up and basically intro's a lot of stuff - basically a freebie. It was pretty awesome but I felt like crap for the majority of the ride. Not a big deal since most people don't feel too good and a lot of guys have thrown up. I fly again tomorrow and I'm hoping I'll be feeling a bit better then. The fact that I've been a little sick the last few days with some congestion isn't helping matters. The next ride they expect a lot more out of you it has the title of being sort of the worst sortie in flight training because it's your first ride and they expect you to kind of take control and you're going to mess up a lot of stuff. So the IP's make jokes about not wanting to instruct those rides but it's all good.

Since I didn't fly today I spent the majority of the day doing random tasks and listening in on the debriefs for the guys that did fly - basically the critique of their flight and with some general knowledge type stuff that the IP's will lay out during the debrief. Tonight I'll look over some more pattern stuff, etc. 

On a kind of cool note every time I tell an IP that I'm flying C-5's they go into these diatribes about "their buddy" that flies C-5's and how they go to all these awesome places and other guys will be staying in tents and the C-5 crews are in the Hilton and this and that so it makes it only that much sweeter - the light at the end of the tunnel here :) I'll let you know how the next flight(s) go. Objective: not feel like crap. Adios.