I gave the brief this morning, followed by an uneventful early morning of FDO duties. Then I got a U for my ride later in the morning. Three more rides until the mid phase checkride, so I have some work to do. Frustrating but not unrecoverable. I have another ride tomorrow to clean up the mess.
A taco is another way to refer to an Unsat ride.
On a lighter note, the weather was beautiful today and I had fun flying. We started baby aerobatics too. Split-S, loop, and aileron roll.
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Showing posts with label FDO. Show all posts
07 April 2010
10 March 2010
This is gettin a little ridiculous
So this has been our 3rd day of no flying. I'm confident we will fly tomorrow though. The weather looks much better.
Today we briefed our flights, but didn't step, just like the last two days. I didn't get a walkaround today because I was FDO("fido"). Answered the phone a couple times, wrote up some accountability forms and gradebook checklists for the IPs. The little office job stuff (AKA arts and crafts) never goes away. As FDO I also had to give the formal brief this morning, which turned out to be a disaster. The Computer folks decided to do something that made all the computers restart 2 minutes after login, so I had to give a hacked together brief with no A/V support reading from random slide printouts that the printer managed to spit out before the computers shutdown. There will be many chances for redemption as the year progresses. I'll have to brief at least once every 2 wks, since we only have 12 guys.
That said, I was really impressed by the help offered to me by my fellow classmates as we struggled to get the day started with seriously broke resources. Everyone asked what I needed and helped me out getting the weather, NOTAMS, the coffee, and figuring out wind corrections for the pattern.
Sim in the morning and flying after lunch. Get up for it.
Today we briefed our flights, but didn't step, just like the last two days. I didn't get a walkaround today because I was FDO("fido"). Answered the phone a couple times, wrote up some accountability forms and gradebook checklists for the IPs. The little office job stuff (AKA arts and crafts) never goes away. As FDO I also had to give the formal brief this morning, which turned out to be a disaster. The Computer folks decided to do something that made all the computers restart 2 minutes after login, so I had to give a hacked together brief with no A/V support reading from random slide printouts that the printer managed to spit out before the computers shutdown. There will be many chances for redemption as the year progresses. I'll have to brief at least once every 2 wks, since we only have 12 guys.
That said, I was really impressed by the help offered to me by my fellow classmates as we struggled to get the day started with seriously broke resources. Everyone asked what I needed and helped me out getting the weather, NOTAMS, the coffee, and figuring out wind corrections for the pattern.
Sim in the morning and flying after lunch. Get up for it.
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