Fly the Plane!

Today I flew early. One of the first takeoffs, we were airborne shortly after the sun came up. The weather was clear and a million, and the air was crisp, with low cross winds. Couldn't have asked for better weather. The winds were blowing right down the runway. I did the area profile and the baby aerobatics without much incident. I enjoyed almost every minute. It wasn't great, but I felt like I was getting better.

I got much better at prioritizing tasks today. We say aviate, navigate, communicate all the time, but my latest IP has really crushed me for misprioritizing, so I think I'm finally getting it. I realized it's really a brilliant metaphor for living life. You really have to fly your own self first and foremost, in the immediate sense, then you can think about where you're going in the future, and then you can become part of a community and interact with other people.

I had an EP sim, and fought off EP after EP, but screwed up a couple. I had a really good IP who had a different viewpoint compared to most of the other sim IPs. He gave me some gold nuggets of EPmanship, so it was definitely a day of positive gains.

In the books,
Mulli

Good Monday

It's tough to ask for a better Monday. The highs are high and the lows are low, but I appreciate the days when things seem to go well. It was an early day, but I much prefer a 0600 brief to getting back to my room at 2100. I might even be able to work out today.

My flight went pretty well, I flew the entire departure and arrived at Hacker without any intervention on the part of my IP, but messed up the straight-in. The rest of the sortie went well.

My instrument sim was a little rough. It went well up to a point, but I started getting the course intercepts all wrong. I couldn't visualize it and didn't really have the formulas down.

I made sure to look at our newly painted solo tank coming up initial on 15L.

Passed the Instruments 2 test as well. The weather's getting warm now...it's beginning to feel like Texas proper. I don't know if I like that, but I'll enjoy the good weather for now.