CJ's UPT Blog: 3 day fly week

So that part was nice except that like I previously said we ended up with enough lines for our entire class to fly those 3 days so it was a long 3 days.

On Monday we flew down to Corpus Christi which was cool. I got the PAR in then dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Since it's night week we got back at like 1130 and didn't get to my apt until like 1 (aye). Tuesday kinda sucked since we did an out an back down south again and then headed over to Kelly in San Antonio. Here our IP had his fiance pick us up and we got some crappy seafood. It was pretty terrible but oh well. Anyway then we got back to the airport and I got in the left seat to do my portion of the flight and as we were taxiing to the runway to takeoff we got a call that we had to return directly to base because of bad weather near laughlin. So that meant I put in a 12 hour day and it didn't even count as a flight for me... bummer.

Because of issues with most our class not having the nigh time requirement done for us to graduate they ended up splitting our pairs all up and had one person in our class fly with one person in the class behind us so we could all get night hours. So I flew with a good dude and he was pretty proactive in all the planning and we flew with one of the reserve pilots. I hadn't met him but he was really cool. He's an Academy guy and flies for Southwest. He comes down for like a week every month and flies with students for some extra cash on the side. We did a short local flight out to Abilene and I did a couple approaches and then he flew us back and did the landing at laughlin. Very chill and a pleasant way to end the 'week'. Thursday we had an epq and hung out at the flightroom for a couple hours, then Friday there was a picnic out at the lake and I went out there for an hour before heading to Austin.

Wills dad is a golf ref and was in Austin for the weekend, reffing the champions tour event held there. So we headed out Friday afternoon and met up with his dad, then got some dinner and waited while 3 of the other dudes in our class came out and picked us up to go downtown. We had a lot of fun in Austin and it was definitely a wild scene there. ( a little too crazy maybe but cool nonetheless) Saturday we woke up later than as planned (big surprise) but we got up around 830 and headed to The Hills CC where the golf tourny was at. We met up with Wills dad who gave us our badges and parking pass and got to hang out there half the day and watch a lot of golf. It was the first real tournament I've been to and it was definitely cool seeing guys I've watched play on TV drive right by in their carts and get angry when they missed 5-footers.

The other guys ended up heading out to float the river on tubes for a couple hours kinda late so we got back from the golf tournament and got dinner and went and saw Hangover while we waited for them to get back. We went back into town and hung out for a couple hours with the guys then headed back to get up and watch an hour of golf and get lunch with Wills dad in the clubhouse before heading back to Laughlin.

It was a nice weekend and I'm glad I decided to head out there. I might actually stay in Del Rio this weekend and try and start preparing for my checkride I expect to have in a couple weeks and maybe get some golfing in. Flying Tuesday and Wednesday and hopefully that will be it, but we'll see.

Finally, if you got an email from me about some pictures thing don't bother clicking it. I think it's some kind of spam thing as it somehow sent emails to all my contacts. I'm sure I stupidly gave it my password or something - anyway yeah don't click it.

Here's a few pictures from the last couple weeks. Adios!