It has been over two months since I last updated this blog. Way to long in my opinion, I apologize for the tardiness of this update but my life has been a bit crazy of late. WOW, A lot has happened since I last updated. Quick recap, I graduate from API with academic honors, moved to Enid, OK in a matter of days, checked into my squadron at Vance AFB, started class a week and a half later.

I started Primary Flight training here at Vance AFB in Joint Undergraduate Specialized Pilot Training (JSUPT) class 09-06. Class started on the 20th of February 2008. Our class spent the first two days going through the standard welcome briefs from all the commanders of the base. After all these welcome briefs our class started physiology. For me and the other Navy and Marine Corp students in our class most of the physiology training was waived because we finished the majority of physiology training at Pensacola. The only training we had to get were refresher courses on the oxygen systems for the T-6, emergency egress procedures for the T-6 and parachute landing falls. We also got a brief on local area survival. After, completing physiology training, we began to learn the systems of the T-6. From what I have seen of the systems and stories from others who have flown the T-6 is that this is going to be a great little plane to fly. After learning the basics of the T-6 systems, our classed moved on to my favorite subject Aerodynamics (the one class it pays to be an Aerospace Engineering, cause while everyone is studying all I had to do was rely on previous knowledge). We just finished what is called flying fundamentals, basically it taught the basics of flying from how to takeoff, to taking off in a crosswind, to straight and level flight, to landing. I have an exam next week on this and then we start learning basic contact flight. Contact has classes on stalls, spins and aerobatics. Next week I have an exam in flight fundamentals and contact. Along with all these classes, I have been doing simulators. The first couple were just familiarization with the cockpit and systems of the T-6. The last two I had his week were basic checklist running. In the next week and a half I have four more simulators which are progressively going to get harder. In a week and a half my class is going to hit the flight line. I am excited to get back to learning how to fly but nervous about how I will do. (Note all this information is about a week and a half old. I have one last sim and then I hit the flight line on Thursday. Everything has been going well up to now.)

Now that I have bored you with the details of what I have been up to in my military training. I’m going to share what else is going on in my life in the next post which should be in a day or two.