the clueless american

Back in the air! e took me to work this morning, and I treated myself to a nice warm shower since we're still without water at home. When I got out, they were looking for me in the locker room because I was on the flying schedule! Apparently the #2 man on base realized that I'm being needlessly punished by the flight physical mess, and he authorized me to fly for up to 30 days while it's being resolved.

I can't tell you how happy I was to be able to go up again, even after such a short break. My poor alumno, who's flown nearly the entire instrument phase with other instructors, was almost as happy as I was! All problems aside, that is why I came here to do this job: to have students and fellow IP's happy to see me on the flying schedule.

Today's flight was a lot of fun. I'm glad that I got to fly my student's last normal ride instead of watching someone else do it. Monday he'll do fine on his instrument check, and within a few months he'll be seeing some real instrument training at Salamanca.