It's a bit hard to explain but basically we have to learn all these ground references for the runway and this entire time (except 1 flight) we've flown the same runway. And of course right before my checkride the winds shift and I have to fly the other runway flying ground references that I'v studied but never completely seen. Needless to say I was off my game and besides screwing some of the pattern work up I was worried about it a lot and it definitely made the flight frustrating.
They ended up giving me an extra ride today to prepare for the redo and it went smooth. Hopefully the winds stay the same and I can go in on Monday and bang out a good flight. It's definitely nerve-racking knowing your always 2-3 bad flights from being out of the program but you can't think about that part of it and just go out and do your best.
We actually lost our first guy due to inability to keep up with the flying. Kind of a shame - hopefully he'll be the last but it's unlikely.
I'll be relaxing this weekend and preparing for the flight on Monday, and as long as everything goes well I can look forward to about 2 weeks before the next big checkride ha not a lot of recovery time. But after that there's only 2 more for the last 3.5 months or so of flying T-6's.
I'll make sure to update this thing Mon or Tues and let everyone know how it went.
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