Today was a glorious day. Not because of the clouds, or the rain, or all the mugginess that is supposed to move through, but because I FREAKIN' SOLOED BABY! I was the first airplane out on the runway this morning ready to takeoff. I was on the runway before the tower even opened at 7am! It was amazing. I did 1 touch 'n' go with Adrienne and then on ( Read more... )

Ok so the past 6 attempts have been failures due to weather...but TODAY! Today is a different day. I was scheduled to go flying at 7am this morning but the weather sucked. Clouds at 400ft. visibility 1 mile...and mist...I soft-scheduled for 7am. My hard schedule is 2:30pm, and the difference is that my hard schedule is the time DWC gave me to go ( Read more... )

H'okay here's the low down. Today was an exciting day, I tried to fly with my flight instructor at 10:45am, but I was #16 standby for a plane, so I didn't get to fly then, but I was on again for 2:30pm. I was a little pissed off because I didn't get to fly when the weather was excellent, but instead the weather started to get progressively worse ( Read more... )

Write 20 Random Facts About Yourself Then Tag The Same Number Of People As Minutes It Takes You To Write The Facts If You're Tagged, It's Your Turn ( Read more... )

*Shakes fist at sky* Darn you weather! This weather is really cramping my style because it puts me really behind on flying. I am right on the edge of soloing, it is the next lesson, but I can't solo when the weather is like crapparoni and cheese. Can you believe it? Me in control of an aircraft, and my mom thought that me starting to drive was ( Read more... )

H'okay so here's the deal. I went flying today, even though that the ( Read more... )

H'okay, this weekend was probably one of the best, even though it was short it was the best. I couldn't come home Friday night because I am scheduled to fly on Saturdays, so I had to stay at school until my flying was done. Well in anycase my flying lesson was cancelled due to the monsoon we had so I got to go home a little earlier than I thought. ( Read more... )

The forecast for today: Sucky with a chance of suckiness developing in ( Read more... )

All right so tonight I was supposed to have a half day half night flight with my instructor. This morning and afternoon didn't look to promising, but you know New England, by the time it was my time to fly everything cleared up...everything except the freakin' winds. So I got all ready and junk, did my weight & balance, weather briefing, got my TAF ( Read more... )

Update time. Where to start, well last Thursday I held a meeting with anyone who was interested in being in the "drum corps" group that I'm manager of. There were only 4 of us, and that includes me and my roommate Don. But it was productive, I found out that one kid that showed up played with the Spartans at the beginning of the season! Also there ( Read more... )