BOB

JP and Jordan came in at Kokomo before 7:30 am.  So I was up at 6, left the house around 6:30 am, and was pulling all the planes out when they got there.  I couldn't complain about it being so early when they came all the way from Terre Haute.  :)

JP flew first and I rode in the back, while Jordan was in the right seat.  When JP had his first round done, he crawled in the back and I crawled up front left.  I took off, flew around for a minute, then did three full stop takeoffs and landings with a crosswind.  That went fine so we came in for lunch.  Topped back off, and then I went up first this time and flew from the right seat.  Did steep turns, slow flight, power off stall and recovery, full engine failure to feather/shut down, restart, and then three or four crosswind takeoffs and landings.  Today went really well.  I felt pretty good in the plane, even from the right seat.  I stayed pretty well in standards, made nice landings even with the crosswind, and hopefully I'll repeat a good performance this coming Sunday/Monday for the check flight(s).  It's supposed to be terribly hot and we have to wear flight suits, so that stinks, sort of literally, but I look forward to having this done.  But that check flight will count towards my T-6 currency for the CAF too, so that's good.  :)

Something sort of exciting.  Terre Haute is having a shin-dig next weekend, and they want me to bring down the T-6 and maybe the Twin Beech both.  And they're going to have 4 T-6s there, and a couple of IPs, and a check pilot.  And the possibility exists that just maybe I can get my FAST card.  I told them I sort of hate to get my hopes up on it after all this time.  If it can happen...that would be wonderful.  I could get a Twin Beech checkout and a FAST card in the same week.  It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.  I'll be disappointed now if it doesn't happen, but they also had a Plan B.  If this didn't work out, they wanted to go out to California to get their LEAD cards, and I could go out with them and do my wing card at the same time.  So either way, just *maybe* this will actually happen.  Bad timing financially after winter and then COVID.  But I don't think I can let the opportunity pass if it comes to be, not after all this time.

So that's my update for the day.  I have some studying to do by Sunday.  Maybe tomorrow's weather will be icky and I'll have a chance to do that...

JP and Jordan

Me in the back of BOB