Last week was a strange week as it was a night fly schedule and I went another week without completing a contact flight. I flew an instrument flight on Monday which was just OK and then on Wednesday I flew a contact ride with our squadron Commander, the dude who's from Haddonfield I think, or at least the Cherry Hill area - I get those towns confused around there. But anyway we couldn't do the aerobatics stuff (which is basically the entire point of this block, it's basically a continuation of the contact flying I've been doing but with a bunch of new aerobatics like chandelles, barrel rolls, cuban 8's, lazy 8's and a couple others) as it got too dark so we headed back and afterwards he told me my flight was really awesome and I have great control of the plane, that I would definitely get through this program... basically he seemed a lot more confident than I am and I felt 2 or 3% better after his barrage of complements.
Then on Thursday I flew with my flight commander for a treat of sorts. We did an out-and-back to San Antonio. Now this is a requirement for the navigation phase of flying but luckily for me this ended up being considered an instrument flight on the way there and then my night flight requirement on the way back meaning I still get to do another out-and-back --probably sometime next week most likely. It was pretty cool and while I was a little overwhelmed with all the stuff going on that I haven't even really learned yet it was still very cool to do something besides fly to the MOA and the auxiliary field and back to Laughlin. The actual reason for the flight was funny, my flight commander was having difficulty exchanging a mattress he bought so we took a car to the place he bought it so he could deal with them in person. He and a couple other pilots that went along in another T-6 picked up some sushi which I don't really like but next door to the Mattress place was a "Texadelphia" a texas styled cheesesteak place. It wasn't a bad steak and it comes with chips and salsa - I guess that's the texas part... weird.
Anyway I didn't fly yesterday but the next two days should be pretty killer. I'm flying twice tomorrow - 2 contact rides full of crazy aero - I'll just be happy if I don't puke after a few weeks of no yanking and banking. Then on Thurs I'm scheduled for two Magoo rides - these are area solos where I get to go out and practice all this aero I learned umm yesterday(?!) by myself. Sometimes I think the AF doesn't think this stuff out too well but oh well! My flight is with this reserve pilot who is supposedly a Delta pilot out of Atlanta and very relaxed so that should be cool. Adios
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so, i'm glad you explain what all this jargon means, because otherwise i would have no idea what you were talking about half the time. Magoo? seriously? haha
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