Fam 0

So Fam 0 turned out to be pretty chill. We've evidently won the lottery with a great on-wing. She's supposed to be one of the better instructors. She explained everything clearly and succinctly. She showed us how to get and aircraft, check the book, compute the weight and balance, and how to get the dash-1 weather report of the Navy weather site. We went over briefing expectations and how thorough our systems knowledge is expected to be. After the tour of the hangar and a cursory explanation of the preflight inspection, we briefed the landing pattern and the course rules/local procedures for transitioning to Cabaniss, our auxiliary landing field. Not to bad, so hopefully a weekend of studying will pay off on Monday.

Procedures and Basketball

This morning we finished up our lectures before sims start. One of the AF IPs came in and briefed us on the local procedures for transitioning from Corpus (NGP) to the area, to Cabaniss (NGW), the aux field, and back to Corpus. The local procedures consist of when to switch frequencies, cancel with ATC, what altitudes and headings to fly at which locations, and local landmarks. I finished up the last CAI on normal flying procedures, and we got a brief on CRM. CRM is emphasized even more in this aircraft because we're getting trained to work with a crew from now on, not just an IP. So the CRM consists of utilizing the copilot in the most efficient way possible and learning to see the IP as copilot instead of threat and the observer as a contributing member of the crew.

Intramural basketball picked up again today. We played much better, even with only 7 guys, but still lost even though we had it tied up with 5 minutes to go. I'm just glad to be getting back in shape and hittin' some 3's.