Semester end

[Simaril]

Took my last final 24 years ago....

...but have to take major recertifications every 7 years for one specialty and every 10 years for the other.


Never ends!

[Tac]

thats why im going for archeology. Dead stuff dont require your constant re-certifying... and the equipment used is either a shovel and brush or an extremely expensive piece of gear that comes along with his own specialist to operate it. *point at spot on ground* here, here and here... and he does it.

[shotgunneeley]

Lets put it this way, I have final exams coming up the 13th-17th and I think it will be a vacation compared to the last two weeks. I've come to the peak of the mountain, the worst is behind me.

[BoilerDown]

Tuesday night my Java programming final project was due, I just turned in my Technical Writing final project, and now its all gravy other than finals.  Which won't be gravy, but at least its just study and do exam type hard, not deadline upcoming pull all-nighter to finish type hard.

[FiLtH]

I'm still fighting with the Financial Aid people  I just recieved the THIRD set of the same documents I've filled out twice before! 

    Its part of the exam. Make the right choice!

[branch37]

Done till Jan. 11th 

[eagl]

Maybe someday down the line it'll seem like a hassle, but today it was an adventure. 

That's cool.  Doing new stuff in a plane is always fun   I didn't mean to bring ya down, I was probably just being grumpy about my last trip into DFW airspace.  I'm not exactly an "old" pilot, but I'm old enough that I take offense when someone else's conduct makes me have to "do that pilot stuff" to avoid a mishap.  My last 2 trips to the DFW airspace were somewhat more difficult than I prefer for student training sorties.  I don't like taking students into environments where I have to take control to avoid a mishap, but that happened on both of those last 2 trips.  A philosophy of mine is that on a "normal" flight, if you have to rely on a demonstration of your best piloting skills to avoid a mishap, you are probably doing things wrong.  But that's mostly because I spend most of my flight time with primary students and I need to keep things well within THEIR capabilities, not mine.

So I avoid class B when VFR

[Tordon22]

A philosophy of mine is that on a "normal" flight, if you have to rely on a demonstration of your best piloting skills to avoid a mishap, you are probably doing things wrong.

Yeah that doesn't sound fun and I completely understand what you said about doing it in a plane flying right at the 200kt limit. It has to be more of a hassle, not busting space or running over some hapless cherokee like mine. My SA is getting pretty good in the local pattern here with the non english speaking students, they like to read back correct but not understand fully and do their own thing. Funny thing was I had fewer ATC instructions going into MCO airspace than I did on my solo cross country to an uncontrolled airport only 60 nm from home. MCO may be one of the least busy though or was on a low work load when I went through, I've no idea.  And I didn't think of it as bringing me down, no worries.

I assume you're teaching one of the stages of flight training for the air force, it would be interesting to know how many hours on average an AF guy has when he starts flying the t-6? Ya'll do PPL (or your equivalent) in Colorado Springs in diamond aircraft right? Is that similar to a part 141 syllabus at all, or what are the typical amount of hours flown there? Sorry for the random noob questions .

[Hoarach]

While I dont write papers as I am a bio pre-med major, the last 2 weeks of school are hell.

All the professors decide to put the semester final tests on the last week of classes.  Next week are my actual finals.

Engineering Calc 2
Anatomy and Physiology 1
Genetics
Physics

Shouldnt be too many all nighters considering genetics is the hardest exam.  Physics I find too easy and I am thankful that the anatomy exam isnt cumulative.

I will be back at school Jan. 7th and get paid to unpack equipment and stuff into the new building that the school just completed. A $48 million dollar project building a state of the art facility for all the sciences, the animal research lab that I research in, as well as a graduate pharmacy program that will get accredited within the next year.

My school is also getting university status in the summer of next year.

http://www1.wnec.edu/news/index.cfm?selection=doc.2507&DCIid=14072

This is an older picture as there are trees and grass around it now.

[eagl]

The average USAF T-6 student arrives with anywhere from 20 to 100 hrs in light acft, in my experience anyhow.  Some show up with hundreds or even thousands of hours (mostly guard guys) but that is pretty rare.  The other NATO countries typically invest in more flight time for their students before they send them here, since just getting them here is pretty expensive and if they don't have what it takes, it's cheaper to wash them out before they even get to the US.

USAF students get an intro in the diamond, yes.  They model that training after what the students will see at the main UPT bases, including stand-up emergency procedures training and the basic military environment they will be in.  But it is still an introduction course, not really intended to be a rigorous screening program.  There is *some* screening at every step along the way (if you are bad academically, you won't be selected, etc) but a bunch of flying prior to UPT isn't really part of the screening process.

[Tupac]

One of the perks of being homeschooled: I can take finals whenever I want, so this week I'm spending in newport oregon

[Tordon22]

Wow, quite the plane to jump into with those hours. Impressive stuff, my hats off to you and those that can pull it off.