Last day of problems with instructors. This month hasn’t exactly flown by, but it’s been a lot of fun and I can honestly say it’s the best time I’ve had in OKC given how crappy and stupid this town is...
Today we did a south satellite problem for the first set of runs. I felt like I did fairly well on it despite having a very hands-on instructor who wanted to chirp a lot. In TSEW, JKE (the satellite airport south of “Academy”) has 2 runways instead of...
Got a short briefing on satellite problems before we started and then it was off to the labs. As usual, the first problem is usually a total shit-show while everyone figures out what is actually going on, why we are supposed to...
Based on the schedule I took pictures of, we did departure problems. For the pro-run we did a heavy departure problem – I sat out and observed. It was first demonstrated by our a-lead instructor (she’s nice), and it was a hoppin problem. Departures also...
Departure problems again today, with one classmate running feeder/final on the other side. Things are starting to make much more sense. The first problem today was the same one we did yesterday but this time ...
Last day of staggers. Don’t remember much from this day since I’m way behind other than the lead instruction wanting to super-micro-control my problem on staggers which was the last run...
Today we ran stagger problems. Until now we have been running single runway operations, just to 28R here in academy land. Academy land has 28L and 28R (along with a crossing runway 16/34 which to my knowledge is only used in tower class) so eventually...
Today we did our last two runs on feeder and finals. They were pretty busy and it seemed like the instructors were helping everyone a fair amount again. Crap ton of heavies, too. It was also the problem before the skills check. They really do seem afraid to...
Last Friday I didn’t keep any notes, but in filling in the blanks I believe it was a pretty sick pool party on Saturday. Sunday we went to the movies. Class is super chill, everyone gets along really well and...
First simulator problems. The first two runs of the day were the “pre-test.” The pre test is run with an instructor who isn’t supposed to say anything and just let you run the problem. They keep notes and grade it, but it’s not...
First simulator problems. The first two runs of the day were the “pre-test.” The pre test is run with an instructor who isn’t supposed to say anything and just let you run the problem. They keep notes and grade it, but it’s not...
Holiday today so no class. Went out with a few of the other class peeps, one of them nearly got into a bar fight. Classmates are cool, a lot of personalities and different backgrounds. One of the things...
First day of class. Since I don’t have a car here in OKC, I have to take the campus shuttle which only picks up at certain hotels. It’s pretty unclear on our paperwork where the stops are, so I walked...
After transferring to a higher level facility as an Air Traffic Controller, I was assigned a class called TSEW (Tracon Skills Enhancement Workshop). I attended TSEW mainly in January of 2020. TSEW is...