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27 March, 2003
I need to read my last journal-entry, it has been so long since I wrote that I don’t even know where I left off……….
……..Okay, now I am caught up. Well, we did end up playing the IP vs. Student softball game and we got our asses handed to us. It appears that my flight has better pilots than they do softball players. Jeez, embarrassing. The party that night was crazy and I had much fun. Probably too much fun, as I spent most of the next day, in bed or eating pizza……and then going back to bed. I had my Instrument check-ride. I did pretty well, scoring a 4E, which means that there were four things that were a “good” instead of an “excellent”. To tell you the truth, I am just happy to have it out of the way, since flying instruments in the tweet is less than accurate. I flew in just barely good enough weather in order to go, which meant that when flying the approach, I was flying it for real, down to 400 feet. It was fun, and I prefer real weather to that damn “hood”. Anyway, I-check, done. Then I moved back to formation flying, which, if I didn’t already write about it, I did NOT enjoy the first 2 rides. True to rumor, it did actually get better, and it is enjoyable….sort of…….if you like taking your life in your hands every time that you fly. It’s not really that bad, but damn, my body hurts afterwards because of the strain. They tell you to wiggle your toes while you fly, it will ease you up………hehehehe yeah right, I can’t even feel my toes. You totally concentrate on flying within 3 feet, and nothing else. Some people are more fun to fly against than others and there are some that are noticeably better. I like to think that I am not horrible, although I have done some horrible things. It was hilarious, here I am flying like my 5th form ride against the squadron commander (ie he is in the jet next to me) and my stupid retarded brain says, no kidding, “Creep 11, emergency” instead of saying a position report, like I should have. Yeah, probably no big deal to most who read this journal, however, any emergency is treated very seriously. I honestly have no idea what the #$%& was wrong with me. Total brain-ass-disconnect. Needless to say, the Squadron commander de-briefed me…….as the idiot that I was, hahahaha. A few twists and turns aside, Form has gone well. I would have checked (check-ride) tomorrow but today the weather screwed me and I couldn’t fly formation twice. So hopefully, Monday I will fly my checkride and then be done with Tweets (Yea!). Your formation solo ride is the last ride in tweets that you would fly solo. You in your plane, alone, against (for me) 2 IP’s in the other jet. Everyone says, and I quote “Best ride in UPT”. I did not subscribe to that theory because I, personally, am of the opinion, that 2 sets of eyes are better than one. Either way, you have to go. Mine was in fact very fun, because I flew against an IP that I really get along well with. We joked around a lot during the flight (ie ME flipping HIM the bird) and him calling me a …..well, don’t worry about it. It was fun and I did not even get close to killing anyone. Nice. Then, my next flight, I flew with an IP against a student who went solo. Hehehe, yes, I am a prankster. Below is the picture of what I put on his helmet 6 hours before we flew (You have a cover on your visor and RARELY check to see if anything is under the cover and the visor, but when you pull the visor down, voila, hehehe). Just in case, you don’t get the humor here, I’ll explain. In formation, you barely use the radios, you just look over and have certain signals to do certain things. And you can see the other guys in the other plane, ummm VERY well. So every time, this student looked over at us, or us at him to start a new maneuver, this is what we saw………….(this is him prior to takeoff, FYI, if someone wants to take your picture before you takeoff, be cautious, be very cautious)
In case you can’t read, it says “Wanker” on his head.
Needless to say, about 40 of these pics made their way up all over the squadron, Yeah, way to go “Tone-Beavis-T.L.-Duece--Magellan”!!!!! |
