Berck is down at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls this week. He and three other guys from work flew two of their planes down there. Today, after going through a medical exam, ejection seat training, and getting fitted for a parachute, he got to fly one of these. They did loops and rolls…
On August 3, if I haven’t found another one, I’ll be out of a job. As you might imagine, I’m suffering from a fair amount of anxiety as a result. I had seriously hoped that I’d have a job offer from a certain organization south of here by now. But I don’t. I still hope…
It’s cold out. Looks like it got down to about -10F last night. The red car barely wanted to crank over this morning when I took Joanna work, the clutch felt frozen, the shocks didn’t work. It was cold. We’ve only got one car with snow tires, which generally works out okay, since I don’t…
I’m exhausted. Part of it is because I got up at 5am, a feat to which I’ve recently become unaccustomed. Most of it is that, for some reason, flight instruction is physical exhausting. It’s not like you do much physical. Sit around, talk, stand around, talk, sit in a plane and move levers while talking,…
I currently have four decent students and one “project” as my coworkers and I tend to refer to them. I’m honestly hoping that the project decides that flying isn’t for him, because I don’t think it is. Admittedly, he’s only had 4 flights so far. But still, by this point, I can get a pretty…