Well, I wound up going with a plan that doesn't involve LJ. So much for me posting on here again.

Well, friends (I'm mostly talking to you, Lex, since I don't expect anyone else even remembers this blog exists), something has sort of come up, and now there's an outside possibility that I'll be posting on LJ again in the not-too-distant future. Possibly more to come soon.

Well, things have gotten pretty bleak on my LJ. I've only got 2 friends who post with anything even slightly resembling regularity. As for me, I just don't feel inclined to post here, anymore. It seems like this blog has lost all significance as a social tool, and I've got a paper journal for writing down my thoughts. I think it's safe to say ( Read more... )

I'm just less than 2 hours away from my first flight period with my new instructor. I'm trying hard not to be nervous. As far as my training is concerned, she's just an instructor now, not a pilot examiner. I have no reason to be nervous. And she's only going to know where I'm at with things if I can shake the nerves and fly with my wits about ( Read more... )

I've been simming a lot lately, for various reasons. First and foremost, I have some sim time requirements I have to meet before I can do the mid-stage check. Unfortunately, simming isn't going too well for me, and I'm not totally sure why, but it's really beginning to frustrate me. It might be that I've been "flying" approaches that involve an NDB ( Read more... )

Remember this for me: Banjo Wazouli.

I didn't fly at all last week, thanks to my allergy-enhanced cold. It's killing me to think I missed an entire week. I have to have this rating done by Christmas break, or I get a big, ugly F mixed into my 3.8 GPA. Incidentally, I just found out, this morning, that my GPA is no longer 4.0. Apparently, I got a B in both Commercial 1 and ( Read more... )

"Whatever happened to that Josh guy ( Read more... )

I washed my first airplane today. Talk about hard work. It took around 4 hours, and there were 4 of us working on it! I'm exhausted! And I found out, a little while after finishing, that I have to go back and do another one tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

After a bit of a delay (Erin called me last night to tell me I'd been rescheduled to 9:45), I had my stage check. Despite a little bit of trouble with my commercial maneuvers, I still passed, with the assurance that my flying is right at the appropriate level, if not a little beyond that. So now I'm on to my Instrument Rating, and the Cessna 182 ( Read more... )