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The end of ITR and day one of RTF

Posted 02-07-2009 at 05:06 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)

Thursday was our last day of ITR. In the morning, we did our last lesson and then did our review for our block test. After we took the block test, we did a final review and then took our final. Both tests were fairly easy because it was mostly a review of basics. During ITR our class lead had been having us do some practice exercises with the radar emulator in our classroom right after lunch. The first couple of times we did some practice with the Alpha-Numeric Keyboard (ANK). Our instructors pretened...
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Basics Final and the Ice Storm!

Posted 01-26-2009 at 09:36 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)

Well, I am officially done with basics! We had our final today and I got a 97%. Everyone in our class passed with ease, so it was nice having some time to kill during the day. We are also getting a little bit of an ice storm, so we got to leave the academy early. Who knows if we'll even have class tomorrow. Apparently half of Oklahoma City is already closed in preparation for the bad roads. I don't really want to miss class, but I would rather find out the night before so I can sleep in instead...
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A week full of weather and my facility manager.

Posted 01-15-2009 at 11:33 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)

My last post I had written at lunch time on tuesday, so I wasn't able to put in what happened that night. I guess this week was the selection panel for the public hire announcements 3 and 4, so different regional managers and teams were here sorting through applicants for different facilities. Well, my facility manager happened to be one of the people here. There are a total of three of us in my class that are going to c90 (me, dave and rj) and we knew she was going to be here. Around 5pm on tuesday,...
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Days 15 and 16

Posted 01-13-2009 at 12:16 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)

On monday we finished up our lesson on approaches and then had our lesson on the pilots environment. This is basically a general overview of some of the key instruments that a pilot may have in the cockpit. The main reason to learn this is so we have a basic understanding of what certain instruments do -especially if there were an instrument or systems failure, we should be able to at least know what is affected and what the pilot can and can't do. I found this to be a fairly interesting lesson...
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Days 12-14

Posted 01-10-2009 at 09:37 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)

For the past three days, we have been finishing up our lessons on the VFR and IFR charts as well as the approach plates. We are almost done with block 3 and we have our end of lesson test on tuesday. Also, our per diem checks and our first real paycheck should be coming that day so that will be nice! Just watching some playoff football this weekend!
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