Interesting stuff first. Kaylee texted "I like this internship. Did I tell you I sat in on an admission and scored the psychological assessments that the girl took? It was cool. One of the therapists said they've never had an undergrad intern back here in clinical therapy before. And I'm going to get to lead a group." She's so excited. I'm really happy for her and I hope it keeps working out so well for her!
Ann had Stormy the caretaker come over today, and they had a more successful day. She got her to change clothes and clean up and everything. Last time Ann wouldn't do everything, so that was progress. We still have to tell her it's coming ahead of time, and then go over there and be there when she gets there and smooth the way every time, or she won't cooperate, but it helps Steve out from not having to do personal care for his mom.
It was foggy and rainy all day. Steve went out to the airport to work on maintenance stuff, and that left me all day to work on my own paperwork problems. I started by going through 120 slides on the C-45 presentation, multiple times. Editing, deleting some, fixing errors, and trying to shorten it up a bit, for my presentation that I have to give on Sunday. I have to do about 6 hours of training on the C-45. Then I opened the quiz, but I haven't gotten anywhere on updating that. JP originally made it and supposedly the performance questions on it are all wrong. So I need to redo that thing, and I lost motivation to do that after everything else I did today. Next up I printed off the PT-26 quiz, which is four pages long, and I had to watch things and read things in order to get the answers, because the quiz questions were halfway less about the actual airplane and partially about making sure you spent the time to do it. So that took awhile. Then I had to watch four videos towards the CRM training required this weekend. One video was over an hour, for the record. Next up I printed off the C-340's quiz, which is 7 pages long and I don't have the info from the guy doing my recurrent training in it in about 10 days. So I'll have to do that quiz a little on the fly, or try to get the info. I answered what I could. I know that plane pretty well but he didn't ask normal questions. So basically. Saturday I've got groundschool on the PT-26 and a quiz, and then CRM training, in Indy, all day. Sunday I've got groundschool on the C-45 and BT-13, that I have to teach, and two quizzes, which will take all day. Monday I leave for Vegas. While in Vegas I have to do the 7 page C-340 quiz. The 20th I have students, and then Mom and Ernie can hopefully make it up and visit us! The 23rd is Kaylee's birthday, and I have to run the 340 over to Illinois for maintenance. The 24th I have to do my own 340 currency checkout with a check pilot from Tennessee or Kentucky. Then coming up I also have to do the T-6 for the CAF, groundschool and quiz. That's the down side of flying a lot of different airplanes that aren't your normal 172s. Checkrides, ground schools and damn quizzes. ;)
The FAA released the audio files from the Air Boss at the Wings Over Dallas crash that I was at/saw in November. It was a little tough to listen to at one point. Air Boss did ask everyone if they saw each other while he was giving directions, and he handled the aftermath firmly and directly and stayed in control after one almost scream of "ROLL THE TRUCKS". I don't know if he'll ever Air Boss again, but...while I think an example may be made of him and mistakes were obviously made, the mistakes weren't just his. I wrote out other things but this is a publicly searchable page, so I'm just going to shut up for once. I should shut up on the lawsuit stuff too, but I halfway WISH those people would see what I have to say and think about THEM and their actions since. The people on this crash...I feel nothing but sadness and sympathy for everyone involved. That is the definition of a tragedy.
Tomorrow I meet with a man who is driving from Ft. Wayne. He's not a pilot, but he's buying or bought a T-6, and he is looking to have someone fly him in it regularly, and his dad (not at the same time obviously), as a bucket list item. Eventually he wants to fly it from the front seat, but I'm not going to start him off there. There are a few things I can't do from the back seat, and like I said, he's not a pilot at all, so he'll need to get more familiar with the plane first. But before committing to this, he wants to meet in person to see if we even get along. Works for me, too. But if we do, I'll basically have another T-6 to get to fly locally--and that would be T-6 #16 for me. :)
There's also a fellow who has asked if I'd be available to ferry a Stinson 108-3 for him to St. Louis. He bought it from our instructor Jerry, and is trying to ferry it home and not getting it done. I've landed the Stinson once. It'll be fine. ;) He's got someone to maybe do it Saturday. If that doesn't get done, he'll contact me back...
And now I'm caught up.
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