It has been a long couple of weeks, stressful I suppose. But mainly, just really long. Had a rough time getting good at landing and such. But I seem to have it now. It just took a little longer for me, and caused some grief. The long breaks due to weather did not help much either.

Now the weather is looking up and I have been put on Flying CAP (commander's awareness program) so that my instructors know I need just a little extra help with the flying thing and that if I do have breaks in training it will affect my flying a whole lot. It has turned out to be really good. Where I was getting one or two flights a week, I am now getting about 4, and now I have only experienced instructors fly with me. That way I am not the experiment of the new guys.

So, all these long weeks led up to an amazing Friday. I solo'd the T-6! It was awesome. I was trusted with a 6 million dollar plane to fly all by my lonesome.



Next is the first checkride, which is basically a test of how well I am flying up to that point in training. This is the most failed checkride of all the checkrides in the T-6, so I have a lot of studying to do. If the weather holds and we don't have too many maintenance cancellations this next week, I should have the checkride the end of this next week or the beginning of the one after.

Today, I learned how to land. The End.

No, just kidding. But it was awesome. Saturday fly day tomorrow. But who can complain, even since I am not scheduled to fly. My job is awesome.

Well, back to studying. No rest for the wary this week.

The weather this week has been better than last, sort of. Yesterday was the best flying day we've seen for the last week and a half or more. Today the clouds rolled in and cancelled most flights. Tomorrow is scheduled to be even worse, but we'll see how it goes. I have had two flights this week and one last week. I feel like I am improving a lot, but if also that these long breaks between flights make me relearn everything over again. I really don't have enough experience to just be rusty after a week or more out of the jet. But this is the desert, so hopefully the thunderstorms and rain will let up enough to give us a few solid weeks of good fly days.

In either case, tomorrow is Friday, which means I have made it through 4 weeks on the flight line. There are a painful amount left, but hey, there are definitely worse jobs out there. In fact, I can think of few better.

This week was not very productive in the way of flights. Weather has cancelled most flights and completely cancelled flying for today. Pretty ironic, considering this is the desert.

On another note, it is finally the weekend. And it is a beautifully long weekend. Definitely looking forward to relaxing and recharging.