UPT Week 27 (March 15-19)

"Formation Flying......I never thought I'd see the day!"

Monday March 15, 2010 (Day 119)
89 ride - "an above average sortie on a challenging instrument day."

I nailed this ride...home run...out of the ball park! See what you can do when you get properly trained with proper flying continuity!?!?!? (To put things into perspective, those 4 instrument rides I flew last week took me 4 WEEKS to accomplish before!!! No wonder I was sucking at instrument flying!! I'm still kind of upset that I was even placed in this unfavorable situation to begin with, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles. Thanks for all of your support!!!

1.4 hour “Elimination” Ride (73.5 hours total T-6 flying time)
129 Total landings

Tuesday March 16, 2010 ( Day 120)
T-38 Sim - it was sweet! I guess it's part of an on-going 2 year study that all of us T-6 trainees have to do before track select happens (in 5 weeks). I flew approaches to/from the airfield start at speeds of 250 mph, then went up to speeds of 600 mph!!! Then the sim dude put a T-1 trainer flying with me, and I got to dog fight (aka shoot it with my guns). It was awesome. I could definitely get used to flying that T-38, but I don't know how many trainees with 3-in-a-row hooked check rides track T-38s....

Wednesday March 17, 2010 (Day121)

Low Level sim, which just happened to be my LAST T-6 SIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEE-HAHHH!!!!

Thursday March 18, 2010 (Day 122)
Flew my first FORMATION FLIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy oh boy I never thought this day would arrive! I flew with another student/IP combo in another plane, and flew in formations with our wings only 10 Feet apart!!!! Madness, just madness. Soooooooo close!!!!! =0 I was #2 for the first half of the flight, then we switched. I took the lead position and flew us back to base. It was sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1.5 hour Formation Ride (75.0 hours total T-6 flying time)
129 Total landings

Friday March 19, 2010 (Day 123)
Took a Physical Fitness Test......69 push ups.......69 sit ups......9:18 run (1.5 miles)!!!!!!!