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Today was the first day of competition here at Western Michigan University. We practiced E6-B for months straight for this. KSU hasn't placed in E6-B in.....maybe forever....I think I did pretty well. Normally these tests are so difficult (35 Questions in 60 minutes), but this time it seemed so easy. I don't know if we did especially well, or if there will be a lot of people who scored very well at the top. Everyone except one person ended early. Won't find out results until Saturday. I just want a medal, and to help the team go to nationals. Such pressure... Still have Simulator, Navigation, and Landing Competitions until Friday.
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I passed my Commercial 2 checkride on friday, which is good news although I would have liked to do better. There are always 2 parts to a checkride, the oral exam and the flying exam. I know, I know, everyone makes jokes at the oral exam. Anyways, the oral part was mostly a joke were we sat there reading some weird legal definitions from part 1 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. The flying part was worse. I had never flown with, or even really talked to the instructor I was doing this with. I didn't understand a lot of what he was asking and he mumbled a lot. All that on top of my anxiety and bad decision making and you have one lousy checkride. Still managed to pass and I guess that's all that matters. I hate commercial manuevers. Now I'm flying the retractable landing gear Cessna 172's for Commercial 3 for about a month until my Commercial 3 checkride where I will become a commercial pilot and can be paid to fly. After that, on friday we went to see Serenity. It was just Rick and Alison and me. It was a really good movie, but they killed some characters I liked. I was hoping another tv network would pick it up, but I don't know if I want to see any more without them. He didn't even need to die. There was no point. But I guess there never is...
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I flew for the first time today using my instrument rating without the foggles (foggles make it so you can only see the instruments and not outside). It was totally weird being in the clouds and you lose your balence with your inner ear and all that. I did well though and it was cool and I can't wait to do it again! My hard work this summer has paid off somewhat then!
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I assume you all figured out that I got too lazy to continue with that logbook thing. It wasn't that interesting though. Hell, even I'm not that interested and I'm the one doing the training. Well, my instrument class is coming to an end, I'll get my rating soon. Looking forward to that.
In other news: I have no other news.
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So I was going to fly a Cessna 172P Skyhawk for the first time today. I even got out to preflight the aircraft, but then the flight manager comes out and tells my flight instructor that I can't fly wearing shorts. And I need a second class medical (I only have a third). But the shorts were enough to ground me(aviation term for not allowed to fly). So I got to play with the new 172R's but not fly. They were cool and all, but they were on the ground.
I bet they are beautiful from the air.
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