Only a short one as not much happened in the briefings week
apart from, well the briefings, exploring, sleeping (jet lag!) and chilling by
the pool. It definitely still feels like a holiday and it’s such a great
feeling after all the ground school.
We had the weekend off to relax, explore our apartment
complex (mainly lounge by the pool and soak up the rays) and recover from jet-lag.
Then we were in school on Monday for…more ground school?? I know we need to
learn this stuff and know all the safety operations and regulations but it is
tortuous sitting inside when we know it’s 90 degrees outside and after 6 months
of lessons we just want to fly! There’s a minibus that picks us up right
outside our apartment complex and it’s about a 20 minute drive to the school at
Falcon Field airport.
We have two weeks of briefings in school, always followed by
coming home and going to the pool of course, with trips to Wal-Mart, five guys
and going to get our FAA class 3 medicals and student pilot certificates.
The class 3 medical was so much easier than the class 1, we
just went in had an eyesight test, urine test and blood pressure check and a
general chat with the AME. Who was very informative about my skin and how I'm
going to burn in the summer months, it is something you have to be really
careful about here. All of us passed the medicals!
I also had to knuckle down and do my first Buck’s university
assignment. I wasn't in any hurry to start as it’s very easy to get stuck into
a routine of going to school and chilling with our classmates by the pool
afterwards. We also got an Xbox and TV for the apartment which is definitely
going to be detrimental to our studying….
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