Laundry and Holding Patterns

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So I'm doing my laundry and cleaning up around the house because Adelle and Corrine (or maybe its Corrinne or Corinne) are coming in tomorrow night. I end up washing everything and only notice as each loads goes through the dryer that it is unusually hot. So far so good up until my last load.

The last shirt that I have to hang up, I pick up and it is my favorite new shirt (a black (040) Penguin Shirt regular polo from Nordes) mind ya, I find a huge hole. Did the dryer burn it? I read the directions, which I'm usually good at, and its says okay. Well, it says reshape and dry flat, warm iron if needed. So I assume that it shouldn't be that bad.

WTF? My dryer is just freaking too good I guess? So careful everyone. It was set to medium too!!! I'm pissed!

School is going well. We did holding patterns today. It was really nice actually understanding and getting all the details on today's lecture. It'll be nice to actually simulate one in the King Air. The workload is a lot different when you have a lot of time in class and a huge piece of paper to draw things out. I'm excited. We are halfway through I guess with Instrument Ground.

A good day!

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So, today started with the fact that our first Qualifying Event for Instrument Ground wouldn't start until 10:00 am. That left me comfortable time to go to bed, sleep in a little bit and study some more. I realized while I was at home reviewing with Laura that the software I was using was giving me questions that were too advanced already and some of the questions that I needed to know, I have never seen. I started to get nervous then.

As always, the test started out w/ me being confused about the basic VOR / HSI indicators and knowing where the airplane was in respects to the station. After I got that sorted out, I started turning pale / green and the professor handed out the test. He laughed a bit because I also dry heaved again right before. I finished early as always, but sat in my chair doubting a lot of the primary / secondary instrument answers that I jotted down.

We got out at 11:30 am and left for a lunch at home to be back at 12:45 pm. We got back and while in the car, Manoj tells me that he thinks he missed four, so that means that I missed some ridiculous number. To my surprise, I missed only 1, but of course, Manoj didn't miss any. So, once again I am one behind. It's not that I'm competing w/ him or wanting him to do worse than me, but that just the fact that I can do just as well. I honestly didn't push myself that hard, but that's always my excuse. I have to make it a reality to actually and try to get this done. Well, until Stage II, I better keep up or even get farther ahead. =)

We are moving on to approaches, departures and enroute procedures which should be fun! We organized our Jeppesen Airway Charts today. That was fun. Learned a lot too but there is always time to keep reviewing.

"A good pilot never stops practicing." <-- yes that means that he is always learning, even when flying passengers! j/k...well, kind of =)

Updates...

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Don't expect that many updates folks until my 1st Instrument Qualifying Event is over on Tuesday. To be honest, I only feel partially ready. I'm going to head out the the Palm Coast library for the next 5 hours. See how much of that UCSD nerd thing I got going...ya know, just kicking it in Geisel the entire day, etc. Hopefully I can last and learn quite a few things. Till then, most likely it'll be easier to update my trelijah news blog because I'll always have my phone on me. It'll just be pictures but hey, I hope that you guys can get a feel of how it really is in Florida.

By the way, QE1 is on all Instrumentation. Just that.