Week One Of Basics

OK, so, time to post on the blog again, I guess. People are upset with me for posting on Monday and then not posting again the rest of the week. Honestly... there just wasn't a whole lot to say. The first week was actually pretty boring.

The way things are broken down here... we have five weeks of a basics course before we even see a real radar scope or talk to a fake airplane (on the simulators). All kinds of basic aviation and air traffic control knowledge.. how the system is set up nationally, radar information, the separation minimums (how much space we have to keep between airplanes, etc.) and a bunch of other stuff like that. That was just this week. In the future, we learn weather, airplane identification, charts, etc. All very, uh, exciting.

Anyway. Tomorrow morning, after a three-day weekend, we have our first test at 0700 (7 a.m.). The scheduling... is somewhat less than optimal, in my opinion (yes, I had to delete several descriptive terms/phrases before settling on the one I chose). One of the guys in my class said, "That's just three days to study." My thought: "It's three days for me to forget everything." Another guy in my class said that maybe they're doing this to see who is willing to hit the books hard over the weekend. Not true -- the schedules fall how they do. My roommate's class started three days after ours, so her block 1 test is three days after ours -- Friday. I'd trade her, but that would mean another three days in Oklahoma. Not sure I really want to do that.

At any rate. I will either be as bored as I am now this time tomorrow, or I'll be much, much less happy. We'll see. TTFN

Mitch