"Cleared Inbound"

As you all know I have recently decided to shift careers and pursue my lifelong aspirations of flying professionally. In order to achieve this goal, I decided to attend Airline Transport Professionals (ATP) at their Atlanta location to earn my certificates. I've decided to log my journey online as best I can with the little free time I'll have so that family and friends, who wish to, can keep up with how everything is going. Hope you enjoy and leave me feedback. - Mark Menendez

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Day 44, Cross Country Time Building

Hey everyone,
Just wanted to drop an update while I had time and have internet access. As I said in my earlier posts I've been flying an average of 5 hours a day building up my cross country pilot in command time as well as my total time for my commercial certificate. Yash and I flew from ATL to Raleigh Durham, NC. Then from there to Trenton, NJ. Slept in a hotel and woke up at 8am to fly back down to Raleigh and then to Jacksonville. Combined we logged 11 hrs each in two days. I should be done with my cross country phase in another week then it'll be back to normal as far as training again for the rest of my certificates, and I'll go back to having more free time to update the site. Here are some photos I've taken over the last few days!