Workin' Man

Well, four years later, I'm finally going to start making back some of that enormous amount of money that I invested in flying. I earned my FAA flight instructor rating on July 3. Then, after an interview and a few tests, was offered a "Standz Class" (standardization class) slot. It was a long week and a half of all day in the class room and then studying all night for the test the next day. Six written tests and a hire flight later, I graduated and was officially offered an instructor position of July 31, hooray! Here is a picture of my fellow graduates from Standz. I'll be instructing in the international group because I'm small enough to fly the Cessna 152 (smaller than a lot of other instructors, and I thought I was getting big). The video is from when they were putting on my epaulets. Sorry it's sideways again, Jen keeps forgetting about that, hopefully it won't happen again, right Jen?