Wrapping up Summer

Well, summer semester is officially over, as of last Thursday. So now it's just oddball flying with a few students. Andrew and I went over to Paola, Kansas for some barbecue. It's great when good food fits into a lesson plan! While we were there, we had the lovely experience of being ramp checked for the first time. Some guy from the FAA was there, and he just goes out to the ramp, starts poking around on people's airplanes. It was kinda funny to watch, because if you want to get a reaction out of a pilot, just send someone out to their airplane, and have them start taking notes, looking all official-like. They can look at your airplane, check to make sure you've got all your personal documents (pilot certificate, medical certificate, etc), lots of stuff like that. Apparently he was looking more at airplanes that day, versus pilots. Kudos to our maintenance department, the FAA guy said that ours was the only airplane on the whole ramp that didn't have anything wrong with it!

Other than that, it's been a pretty dead week. William is getting closer to finishing his commercial certificate, and is really starting to get the maneuvers smoothed out and looking nice. Paul was up at Oshkosh for the big EAA AirVenture fly-in. I wish I could've gone this year, but it just wasn't in the cards, I guess. Maybe next year!

I finally have more than 900 hours of flight time, which means it's time for me to quit procrastinating sending out my resume... see if I can find someone to hire me! I didn't want to send stuff out saying that I had 886 hours or something like that. It just doesn't look as impressive as 900 hours. It's kinda like why companies advertise that things cost $99.99 versus just calling it $100. $100 just sounds bigger, even though it isn't a big difference at all. I like instructing here at the school, but teaching at a school is tricky, because every time the semester ends or there's a big holiday, your income disappears! We'll see what happens, but personally I'm hoping that the airport here needs to hire a new supervisor soon. I like this town, it's home, so I'd really love to stay here. Stay tuned for future developments ;-)