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I don't know how FOX could screw up Firefly so bad. The show is fucking awesome. I've been sitting around relaxing which is rare for me, so even if I'm sitting at home it's still vacation to me. Yesterday was a very busy day for me however, as I had my interview for an internship with American Airlines. I had to wake up at bloody 4 in the morning and get to the airport at 6:00am. Took an American Eagle flight to Dallas. It's so much faster than driving, I'll tell you from experience! Some of the other applicants got to take a real American flight in first class, but I thought riding in the RJ was cool enough. It was a Canadair RJ, not the Embrear that I learn about at school though.. :( Anyways, got to Dallas managed to get to the AA training building which is huge and had the interview right away. It went pretty well I thought, not perfect but good. Very Short. Came all that way for a 15 minute interview. Then got a tour of the building where they showed us the simulators and the rest of the building, answered questions, etc. Then back to Cleveland by 4pm! It was a lot of fun, and although I am still waiting for the Expressjet interview, I look forward to a great time this summer!
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Earlier in the month, I applied for internship positions at three airlines: Continental Express, American Airlines, and Mesaba Airlines. American Airlines has already called me back and scheduled an interview with me on Tuesday, March 28th. They are going to fly me down to Dallas and hopefully the interview will go great. I'm so looking forward to this!
Express is revamping their internship process, so I hope to hear from them soon. Mesaba was kinda my backup choice, and that airline is going through financial problems (they are hooked together with Northwest who just filed for bankruptcy). So for summer I can hope to me interning with a great airline! It's so exciting that everything is coming together. I know I've been working really hard these past few semesters and haven't gotten to hang out as much as I wanted to, but in the end this is really really good for me.
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My multi-engine checkride was scheduled for Thursday, March 16th. As always, I never get to do the checkride when it's first scheduled. I've been flying a Piper Seminole (PA-44 / 180) since the start of the semester. I had 11.1 hours in the airplane by the time I took the ride. So anyways, Thursday comes by and I get to the airport. Turns out the FAA had come by and took one of the Seminoles somewhere for something (I don't even know what). The other one was down for maintenance, so I was like "damn" and all that. I did the oral exam, which lasted for about an hour and a half and went fine. Scheduled the flight for Sunday at 9am.
Sunday 9am comes by and the clouds are pretty low. One of the requirements of the checkride is to actually shut down an engine in flight, which has to be done at a high enough altitude so that if it doesn't restart you can glide to an airport. I needed to be able to get to 4,500ft, and the clouds didn't let me do it. My examiner is leaving town for the week on Tuesday, March 21 so there's not much time. Rescheduled flight for 7:30am Monday March 20. 7:30am March 20 comes and it's the same thing. Lake Effect is causing a lot of clouds pretty low. Examiner says he can do it later in the day, like 3pm. Waited all day for the clouds to rise. About 4pm they finally start to break up and we decided to go. The ride went pretty smoothly. I was very nervous before the flight, but once I actually start flying I'm always better. I ran through the maneuvers which were okay. Then we failed the engine, which was cool and probably the last time I'll see a stopped prop hanging out there for a while (hopefully). Then we did the VOR-A approach into KSU with a simulated failed engine all the way to the landing. After all that, we took off one more time and did a short field landing and I was done! There's nothing more satisfying than the moment when you realize you passed a checkride. Glad to be done. Now I can focus more on my Certified Flight Instructor work and it frees up about 3 hours in the middle of the day for me too. Woots.
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Since I have no plans for spring break, I was wondering if anyone wanted to do anything. I was thinking maybe we could fly somewhere cool for a day or something. Also, LAN Party on one of the days (or more) to be determined. Flying wouldn't be too expensive, especially if there are 4 of us. Anywhere people want to go? I just want to fly somewhere.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/ap_on_hi_te/origami_unfolded
 ""It ideally brings the best of what a Windows PC is and marries it to what the best of a very capable consumer electronic device is," Mitchell said." WTF? OMG I thought marriage was defined as between a man and a woman! This is outrage! What's next? Hardware marrying software? What is this world coming to? The government should take action to prevent this kind of thing!
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