Well, after a week of not being able to fly due to scheduling and weather cancels from all the thunderstorms, we finally got to fly at least one formation flight today. My wingman, Jeff Searcy, and I have flown 4 of the first 5 formation flights together, and we are beginning to learn each other's techniques. This is a huge part of formation flying because once you learn how your wingman flies, you know what to expect from their roll rates and how rapid they put on the "G"s, which helps alot when you are trying to stay 3 feet away from his wingtip while flying aerobatic maneuvers.
We also took our last phase test today, which covered advanced contact and formation information. I ended up doing well, but better have considering I studied hardcore for the past few weeks on the information. Now that that phase test is out of the way, we are able to take the advanced contact and formation checkride whenever we finish all the flights leading up to it.
We also finally started the last portion of the T-37 academics, which happens to be weather, and should be taking the test on it next week. It really feels like we are coming up on the end of our Tweet training, finally, and I cant wait until we start T-38 training next month!
I also came across three badass pictures and I figured I'd share them with you...enjoy!
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