Day 29, Early Morning and Late Night

Well I was able to get a day off on Saturday to drive home to Knoxville and finish moving my house with the help of my family. I left to come back to ATP at 8am and got in town around 11am. No one was around for some reason. Bill had flown with a student the night prior and didn't get on the ground until 1:30am so he asked me not to show up until 11am-12pm. Once Bill showed up he flew with Yash, another 90 day student who started a week before me. Once they got back I preflighted the aircraft and called for my weather briefing. We got in the air around 6pm and flew for 2.6 hours. The flight was smooth. I shot 3 separate approaches. 2 precision ILS approaches (with simulated engine outs on both) and then a partial panel RNAV non precision approach which was fun to actually do in the air for once instead of the sim. As I was setting up for the RNAV approach we were flying right over downtown Atlanta all lit up at night. Bill told me to grab my camera and take some pictures... I grabbed my camera and scrambled to find a memory stick to take the photos. I ended up taking some and hopefully they came out OK. I'll be looking at them later today (maybe during lunch) and uploading them, as long as they look good, for you all to see.

It was a very long day for me but I'm having a blast flying and last night I received a great compliment from Bill. Once we were back on the ground and secured the Seminole for the night, he told me that I was one of his best students he's had so far. He said he was very confident I could pass my instrument checkride ( 4 flights into the instrument program) but that, of course, I have to wait to finish up all my allotted flights ATP schedules, which is fine by me... obviously the more practice the better I'll get. I'll upload the photos as soon as I can.

Oh yeah and Happy Birthday Dad.