NAV Checkride!!!

I passed my NAV checkride!!!  Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts.

I had a great check IP (instructor pilot) that really helped me relax at the beginning.  Wow, it was a stressful week leading up to it though.  I studied all day long for the week leading up to it.  It was worth it in the end though because I passed!!!  That was the BIG checkride......  Now I have 12 flights left and I'm done with pilot training!  Six weeks away from my drop night, eight weeks from graduation!!!  Fun times over here.  My flight just got taken off of formal release which basically now means that we have to be in the flight room for everyones flight briefs and then we can leave and study from home.  Sometimes it's nicer to be able to study from somewhere else.  We can even go off base now and get lunch.  Haha.  It's kind of a big deal.

I had my last simulator ride on Thursday.  It was a refueling sim.  The first half you pretend that you are the refueling plane and the next half you pretend that you are going to receive fuel from a plane.  I took fuel from a KC-10. It was so freakin' cool!  Next I flew behind another T-1!  Oh yeah, the strangest part of this sim was that my wing commander came to "fly" with us.  Yeah, the wing commander....................of the base.  It was cool.    He was a really nice guy.  He flew F-15s so he had a lot of thoughts and teaching techniques on refueling stuff since he had something like 1500 refuelings during his career so far.  At first it was a bit stressful but it turned out to be really cool to have him with us.

Kristen made some delicious cookies for my flight on Friday with chocolate chips, shaved Hershey's bar, oatmeal and pecans........ They were good!

We went out on Friday night to a wine bar.  Sounds nice for Del Rio huh....?  Son't get too excited because it's attached to a gas station.  Haha.  People talk about it a lot over here so Kristen and I were excited to go, but it was not that great.  Haha.  We went with a few friends of Kristen and I.

Kristen is leaving sometime this week to go back home and visit for a week or so.

Till next week, see ya everyone.