So Friday I headed home after my morning class in Battle Creek. I hit home at around 11:00 a.m. and helped the parents unload grocery's. My grandparents came over at around 5:00 for my birthday party but I had to leave my party for about an hour becuase I decided to call Kay for a hair cut.....yes, My long golden locks are now gone. I had Kay ( Read more... )

Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man.... Landing is the first ( Read more... )

So its a Saturday night, and I am studying....whats up with that?? All my pals are downstairs drinking it up while I am trying to figure out why in the hell the dynamic pressure of the air in an aicraft duct wont add into the static pressure as well as the total pressure!! Ahhhh!! There is so much in Aviation that I need to consume and finding ( Read more... )

So everyone was right, ya do learn alot when you are on your prog check. I just got back from flying with Jay and I did good for the most part. He taught me alot of new things I can use to my advantage when in the air. I do have to go back and take part of the test over again hopefully on Tuesday. My landings sucked today due to how windy it ( Read more... )

So I just got done flying with Andy and it rocked!! Did some more Instrument flying and he put me back under the hood for lesson 22!! On take off I tail struck the ground but no big deal, I guess it happens quite a bit!! Tomorrow is my huge Flight exam with Jay Waalkes. Im so nervous. My flight time is 1:30 out of Kalamazoo and I have to show ( Read more... )

So its a winter wonderland outside right now. It's snowing good right now and I Love it, well of except I had to cancel my flight time due to it today but I guess I have the rest of my life to fly!! But anyway I have decided to not be as lazy this semester and get my butt into gear. After my classes yesterday I hit up the rec and ran a few laps ( Read more... )

After a month of no flying, I finally took off and took to the blue skies today!! My new instructor is a really cool guy but has a slight different teaching style than Joel W. It fely wonderful to fly again, but I only had a small bowl of cereal before I left and Andy turned the heat on too much and I felt slightly ill going through some ( Read more... )

Happy MLK Day!! May we keep living for equal rights everyday of our lives!! But anyway this weekend rocked my socks!! One of my best freinds came over from Chicago to spend the weekend with us four guys. Bren called on Friday night to tell us that she would be coming on over so to celebrate Dave ran out and got a bunch of scary movies to watch ( Read more... )

It's a new semester with some news classes!! Feels damn good to be back, with the exception of missing Kimmie!!;(....I got so use to seeing her over break that it is weird to not see her everyday!! But anyway my new flight instuctor Andy called my last night to tell me that I would be flying today at 10!! I got to the airport at 10 and at 10:15 ( Read more... )

So I am still feeling the affects from all the board games I have played over the last couple of days. New Years Eve rocked. Kimmie and I headed over to her friend Dawn's house that she goes to nursing school with in Onsted. Dawn and Brandons house was quite beautiful with a "man" basement and all. Kimmie and I started out the night playing air ( Read more... )