Wow, I need to be more diligent in writing on here. It's a little tricky when things are as unpredictable as my life tends to be! Well, I'll try to catch up without being too long-winded, and add "make a new blog post" on to my list of things I do each Friday. Here goes!
For the end of last spring, the big news with me is I GRADUATED!!!! My masters degree is officially finished, and I'm finally no longer a college student. And it only took me seven years. No sweat, right? It took until about 4:00 Sunday afternoon after graduation before boredom set in... but no worries there, things have stayed just as chaotic as ever!
I've now got six students, which keeps me plenty busy! I'm still teaching at the UCM airport, waiting for the right job to come along. Paul got his instrument rating, and is working on his commercial certificate. He's been doing a lot of long flights, so we've been going to see his friends, fun restaurants, etc. We played lawn golf in Storm Lake, Iowa, and ate lunch at Lamberts in Sikeston, Missouri, among other trips. Good times! James is finishing up his private certificate, trying to get through the stage checks before the checkride, which is a little tricky because he also needs to be at work, in St. Louis, 4 hours away! Then I've got a bunch of new students: Dan, Clint, William, and Suzanne. Dan is working on finishing up his commercial certificate. He's trying to finish it before the middle of July, when he leaves for the prep school for the United States Air Force Academy. Clint is working on his instrument rating, so we're hoping to get over to Kansas City this week to do a bunch of instrument approaches. William is also working on his commercial certificate. I just gave him his complex endorsment this week, which allows him to fly airplanes with retractable landing gear, flaps, and a constant speed propeller (you can change the angle of the propeller blades to get better performance). Suzanne is also working on her private certificate. I have yet to meet with her, she starts with me this coming week. This is going to be a bit entertaining, because her first flight with me is supposed to be a night flight to Kansas City International Airport!
The other big exciting thing is that I got to go back and volunteer for another flight team national competition. This year was in East St. Louis, and it was great to get to see a lot of my friends I don't usually get to see. It was a crazy busy week, and loads of fun. I got to do something that made everyone VERY jealous. A friend of mine, and fellow UCM alumni owns a Stearman biplane, and he brought it over and took me for my first open-cockpit flight. It was way more fun than anybody should be allowed to have!!! Of course, I took my camera along, and took plenty of photos. I'll have to stick some up here. It was great, to see that plane pull up right along all the 152's for the competition, and to see everyone's jaws drop when I got to get in and we taxied out!
Also think I've got a new job coming... but I'll save that one for later!
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