back to the abc's

Well the track business is all done with and it turned out very well - We have a great t-1 class from the looks of things and there weren't any BIG surprises on track day except that a couple of my buds are off to corpus christie to enjoy the "easy" program with the Navy there flying T-44's. Pretty cool except that you kinda limit yourself to flying airplanes with propellers on them for the remainder of your career.

I had a great time showing my dad around Laughlin and the beautiful city of Del Rio while he was here and I think he actually enjoyed it a little bit. The biggest hit was probably the simulator - I got to take him in for a Red Carpet sim where you can take family in and let them take the controls and he was able to take the T-6 down for an ILS, do some aerobatics, some formation (with a loose meaning of the word :)  and then take it around San Antonio and fly around the skyscrapers at 200'. We hit up 2 of the uh 4? decent places to eat and 1 of them was still a letdown, saw a 5-minute crazy duststorm with winds probably hitting 50mph and all in all it was a lot of fun.  Megan was shooting some pictures and I'll try and get them up on here soon.

We had our track party Friday night and it turned out great, we had a lot of other people show up at the Ramada Lounge where it was held and everyone had a great time from the looks of things.

Now it's back to academics. Everyone else gets a few weeks to savor completing T-6's but not for us T-1 guys. We get thrown right into the new jet and it's back to learning systems and checklists and taking tests every couple days for the next month or so. We'll start having sims later this week in addition to the academic stuff so that's cool. Right now though there's a lot of free time and I've been able to do some golfing and hit the gym so that's good for the body and mind.