4 down, one to go!

Well, I only have 6 total flights left in the Tweet!!!! Holy cow!

This week was quite an interesting week. The first two days were horrible cause we got weathered and sat in the flight room for hours on end, doing standups and studying. Actually, I wish we could have studied. It mostly just turned into slacking off and telling stories and wasting time. Oh well, Wednesday we finally got a break with the weather and were able to fly.

My flight on Wednesday was horrible. I can't put it any more simply than that. I should have busted for a number of things, but the IP I flew with was feeling generous and told me there would be nothing worth while about busting me on that flight. It was my second to last flight of the advanced contact block, so I had one more before the checkride so he just let some stuff go that probably he shouldnt have. Thank you so much! Haha, but he was right, nothing would have come from busting me, and the fact that I had another flight made it better.

The flight itself was my worst flight yet. I busted the area by 0.1 miles and almost oversped the flaps twice... Stuff I've never done before. There was a really bad cloud deck right in the middle of our areas, so I was trying to complete aerobatics and maneuvers in the holes as I found them. It made for some sporty flying. Not that I blame it completely on the weather though, not flying a contact flight for 15 days up to that point didnt help either. Oh well, I made it.

Thursday's flight was only about half as bad as the other one. I was definately rusty on everything and really needed these two flights to knock off the rust before my checkride. This flight could have gone a little better, but I'm not complaining after what I went through the day before. Thursday's weather was the nicest weather we've had in weeks, which made it alot better for aerobatics, thankfully.

Finally, Friday I got to fly my advanced contact checkride. I originally was supposed to fly it about two weeks ago, so I'm happy to finally be able to get it done. I ended up flying a much much better sortie than the past two, and passed with only 4 downgrades. Two of them I got cause I was an idiot and started my cloverleaf maneuver low on energy so I scraped the bottom of the area boundaries. One was because I didnt flare enough in one of my landings, and the other for a power on stall recovery being too soon. All pretty fair, and I'm just glad to be done with the thing. On a scale out of 100%, Wednesday's flight was 100% bad, Thursday's 40% bad, and today's only about 10% bad. Not too bad for not flying contact for a few weeks.

Anyway, like I said in the beginning, this leaves me with 4 checkrides done, 1 to go for formation. I have 6 flights left in the Tweet, and should be done in the next week or two. Thank the lord, cause the heat is starting to increase, and the A/C in the jet doesn't exactly exist. It's gets hot as hell in that thing! Well, that does it for this week, only one or two more, and then it's back to square one in the T-38!!