H46Bubba
Well-Known Member
For those who are interested I will try to post my daily accounts at DCA. I saw that others on seperate academy threads were doing an account of there training, so I said what the hell, I'll do one for DCA. I will post as much as possible on a daily basis if time allows. Okay here goes it.
Day#1: Got up at 0630 to go get checked out on a C-172SP at Avion Academy (convieniently located next door to DCA!) That way I got some hightech gadgetry to enjoy for leisure flying, when and if I get free time. It also gave me a chance to familiarize myself with the airfield and local area. We went up for about 1.2 hours. Did some stalls, slow flight, steep turns and came back to the field for two landings. All in all, it got my head back in the game after not flying for several weeks. Went home for some lunch and headed to DCA for the 1:45 kickoff.
I think there are 20+ individuals in our group, but of course everyone will break down into their perspective groups after tomorrow. It was the usual marketing schpeel and propaganda. They did have an current CRJ-700 FO, who is an academy grad, come in and tell his story and answer any questions we had, which was really cool to get someone who had done the whole thing and gone on to Comair. Then at 3:00 we had a break for icecream. After we wrapped up the icecream break it was time to get down to business and do the paperwork, get i.d.'s, get fingerprinted, and get fitted for our uniforms. I gor out of there around 5:30. Tomorrow will be an earlier day starting off around 8:45.
Day#1: Got up at 0630 to go get checked out on a C-172SP at Avion Academy (convieniently located next door to DCA!) That way I got some hightech gadgetry to enjoy for leisure flying, when and if I get free time. It also gave me a chance to familiarize myself with the airfield and local area. We went up for about 1.2 hours. Did some stalls, slow flight, steep turns and came back to the field for two landings. All in all, it got my head back in the game after not flying for several weeks. Went home for some lunch and headed to DCA for the 1:45 kickoff.
I think there are 20+ individuals in our group, but of course everyone will break down into their perspective groups after tomorrow. It was the usual marketing schpeel and propaganda. They did have an current CRJ-700 FO, who is an academy grad, come in and tell his story and answer any questions we had, which was really cool to get someone who had done the whole thing and gone on to Comair. Then at 3:00 we had a break for icecream. After we wrapped up the icecream break it was time to get down to business and do the paperwork, get i.d.'s, get fingerprinted, and get fitted for our uniforms. I gor out of there around 5:30. Tomorrow will be an earlier day starting off around 8:45.