Well, here we go again on the blog. I feel as though I should fill the people who don't know why I haven't been blogging in, on why I haven't.
I failed my Flight Planning exam on the first attempt, by one mark and had to take approximately 2 month break inbetween failing and re sitting. Anyway, I have since completed my re-sit and scored 92% in the second attempt, meaning that I was able to fly out to Goodyear in Phoenix, Arizona to start my primary flight training.
I arrived yesterday at about 18:30 Arizona time, with a headache that had migrated with me from the UK and made the flight awful. I was very very tired, however as soon as I met up with all my course mates who came out in July, I just forgot all about how tired I was and started settling in. I eventually got to sleep at approximately 00:30 local time (8:30am) meaning I had been awake for almost 30 hours, however, it worked out and I conveniently woke up 2 minutes before my alarm was due to go off.
We had groundschool today, which consisted of a number of different briefs on state laws, the local area, tour of all the facilities and do's and don'ts of the campus and a class photo (AP323). We are going to the AME (Aero Medical Examiner) to gain our FAA Class 1 medical certificates tomorrow and then back into ground school after lunch for more briefs on a number of things, of which I don't know what yet.
Anyway, it's been a gorgeous day here in PHX, 37 degrees celsius and a clear sky which made for a gorgeous sunset.
I will keep this up to date as much as I can and I cannot wait to start flying!!!
