Rocking Single Sector

So today was a pretty good day down in good ole Oklahoma City. The day started out with a Skills Check – as mentioned yesterday for those unfamiliar – just an evaluation by our instructor without them helping us. I ran second in our group...

Exhausted

So I’m not totally sure why, but this week has been physically exhausting for me! I am definitely not used to working 5 am shifts per week, so I’m sure that has something to do with it.

Not much of an update for today, just...

Halfwayish

Today our seven problems went as follows… problem 1 was the continuation of the single sector problems from yesterday – I ran the east flow combined problem, it went fairly well other than having too much compression with two planes on final. My instructor gave me some good feedback, so that felt pretty good.

VFRs and Single-Sector Runs

Last Friday in labs we ran more problems (I think we are up to level 4 or 5 problems, they go up to 13). We haven’t done anything that’s been particularly butt-kicking yet, though I’ve ignored my fair share of VFRs during the problems, just because they always call you when you have something else to do (the problems are designed that way) and I don’t like getting behind.

First Labs

The last couple days, we’ve been hitting the labs – 7 runs per day, in our usual little rotation. I don’t have much to comment about them, other than the general nature of them. Up til now, we’ve run split-sector (either North or South, but not both combined) with varying levels of complexity and business. At this point...

Happy Forth!

Happy 4th of July! Here are the updates from the weekend and last couple days!

Last Friday we had our final written block test and the radar qualification test. The block test was on the last lessons of the book material, and the radar qualification test was the FAA/OKC version of the same test most of us had already taken...