Well, being that Hurricane Wilma is right around the corner, I had some recurrency training yesterday in the DA40. It was fun to fly that plane again. The landings were nice and smooth and I was even impressed. We did three approaches and because it wasn’t a checkride, we got to act as a crew. I had the Standards Manager, Wes Treco as my co-pilot. It is so intimidating to fly with him because he’s so well trained. He’s just an overall awesome pilot. He did all my radios and configured the avionics accordingly. I shot three approaches and finished up. I did all this because I was almost at the 90 day mark for DA40 flying. Now, I might get to rent it when Adelle gets here. That should be fun.

I got a call this morning at about 11 EDT just to notify us that we were not going to be evacuating today. We are still on standby for 8 AM EDT Sunday until the evening and even till perhaps Monday morning. It’ll be interesting to see what ends up happening. I’m starting to feel how it is being on standby. I just need a pager now!

After logging my checkride as PIC, today was the first real log, without testing the anxiety factors. To my dismay, the flight wasn’t that great at all. You probably would have been asking how the heck I received my ticket. I guess you can attribute it to being very tired and weary (preflight was at 6:00 AM EDT). I was just so drained. I stayed awake for Manoj’s ride and when I got in front, I just started to get sloppy. I wasn’t holding altitude well nor was I actually cleaning up the plane due procedure. I was a mess. Oh well…I’ll do better next week.

We might evacuate this weekend actually when H.Wilma comes along. It’ll be really interesting. I’m excited for the flight. I’ll definitely be posting daily as I hear more news on this.

I also got my first iPod today from my one and only. Go over to TECH Rants for the small words. I’ll have a review soon enough.

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This is by far the best damn audio commercial! You have to listen to it. Tell me what you think!

CAPT has put up a temporary advisory notifying us qualified pilots that they might need our assistance. As of now, we are on standby for temporary evacuation! It’s nuts huh? Check out this graphic. The red circle/dot is where I live. We are just north of the track, so it shouldn’t be that bad, but H.Wilma is still a very scary Category 5. For those who don’t know, Hurricane Hunters have already called this the strongest Hurricane ever measured in the last 150 years. This means that the central pressure was measured to be the lowest at 882 mb. That is just darn low and abnormal. Wish us luck!

Summary: A solo pilot misjudged her landing and ended up long at the opposite end of Runway 29 at Flagler. She ditched the plane and was in waist deep of water. Apparently she landed long, skidded out and was unable to come to a full stop.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Flagler/03FlaglerFLAG03101905.htm

Guess what? I can fly multi-engine, complex, high performance aircraft! Let’s go do it! Now, I just have to build up a lot of PIC (pilot in command) multi-engine time so that I’ll look qualified to the airlines. Come to think of it, I’m already at the level of being 3rd senior in the piston phase of CAPT! That’s just ridiculous! One more section (Commercial Multi-Engine) and Advanced Meteorolgy and on to jet! It’s soon all going to be over! I just hope that I’ll be able to finish and have a job ASAP. Umm… Ft. Lauderdale?