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After getting a 96% today on my Stage III, I am now allowed to take my FAA Written for Instrument Certification. Tomorrow, I'll have some good news hopefully. Being that I have to match a %100, its going to be a tough one!
miss already ya babe!
Going to Jacksonville! As you can see, my baby is driving while study! Thabks boo!
This is the last weekend that Adelle is here. It's going to be lonely again, but hopefully I can catch up with some things in the upcoming week. I have Stage III this Monday and then the Instrument FAA Written on Tuesday. We start flight on Wednesday. It should be fun! I can't wait really to start getting up in the air and advancing my flight experience. I'll be studying again this weekend so, no updates till then. Sorry for the lagging!
I knew that I wasn't 100% ready and this time, my worse nightmare came true. I let everyone down. I scored an 87%. Of course, passing at CAPT is standard for 90% or higher. I'm taking the Stage 2 Exam again tomorrow and the Stage 3 is still set for Friday and the FAA on Monday afternoon. This instrument stuff is killer. I just didn't get to study enough. Oh well...I knew that it was coming. :-(
Look what's headed our way here in Florida. No its not a hurricane, but it might as well be one in my perspective! I'm located in the northern central half of Florida. If you check out below, I'm near the small circular blue blob in the northern half. See the Red!?!?! It's going to be a fun day tomorrow around 11AM forecasted!
At Flagler Beach enjoying the memorial day monday!
Just a fun picture of Corinne and Adelle visiting me in Florida. This shot was for Marella because she likes Sea Cows. Hi guys!!! San Diego-esque weather eh? Only it as humid as heck!
I have Stage II this tuesday, Stage III on Friday, the FAA test whenever I can take it within the next two weeks (and I have to beat Andy again) and we start Aviation History this week with the assigned HW of reading chapters 1 and 2! It's going to be a fun filled weekend! Oh yeah, and Adelle is here visiting so I have to entertain her! Although, she is very nice and understanding in the manner.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/03NewsHEAD02052805.htm
hopefully this forecast will prove its stuff this coming hurricane season!
Hurricane-esque like rain eh?
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.
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 =)
Matt on Forrest's couch, "studying hard!"
Fort Matanzas! So far though no fish.