Friday

I had my instruments checkride on Wednesday and it went very very well. I had to do the 2-check twice because I screwed up my missed approach the first time so I was a little apprehensive going into it but everything went nice even with some crazy 30 knot gusts out there.

No rest for the weary though, as they stuck me in my formation 'dollar ride' the next day. They paired me up with a good dude in our class, Allin, and we had a pretty nice formation ride. On the dollar ride the IP does most of the flying but from the sounds of things we got to do a larger share of it than most and my IP seemed to think for my first try it was pretty decent. It's pretty awesome to be up there with another plane 10 feet from your wing but it's going to be frustrating trying to get good at keeping it there... 

I have my last T-6 simulator ride today which is a low-level sim where you fly a low route 500' above the ground. I'll get to do 2 of these in the plane at some point. 11 more day...