Well it has been a few days...number of things going on. We had the Nav test on Tues morning, which went well for me and the rest of the class. No one in our class failed. At this point, we have still yet to have anyone in our class fail a test. Unfortunately, we only had one guy get a hundred. It specifically mattered for our nav test because our instructor who was a USMC Prowler ECMO made bets with us on whether we got 100's or not. If we took it on the first day of class, which I did, we got 5/1 odds. Thus, if I got a 100, he owed me 5 beers. However, I missed two questions, so I now owe him 1 beer. He set up a night for our entire class to meet him at a local water hole a couple of days before graduation. The point, he told us on the last day, was to get our class out together as a unit...a building camaraderie type deal. This guy was the best instructor so far. He tried to teach us stuff to pass the test, but, more importantly, he emphasized skills we would use in the cockpit once we hit primary. Things like doing distance, speed, time, fuel flow, winds, and point-to-point navigation in our head, without the whiz wheel. Also, he had great stories, which helped break up the long class periods.  

 

Anyways, since then we have been finishing up academics with flight rules and regulations. Hopefully, none of us blows the last test of the academic portion of API. Once we finish this, we get to start the practical survival stuff...the fun stuff like the dunker, compression chamber, bay-ops, etc. Everyone is looking forward to getting into that and out of the classroom. Alright, enough from me, time for a good workout and hit the books for our test tomorrow.