Thursday, August 2, 2007

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?

2 comments:

DC United said...

Congrats, Ben! That's freakin' cool stuff. I flew over to Mackinac Island in Michigan on a little Cessna and sat shotgun. It made me think of you and the fact that there are a TON of instruments and buttons and numbers and HOLY CRAP...lots to remember so that the plane doesn't nose dive into the ground. And that's just a Cessna! I can't even imagine what the inside of a commercial jet looks like. You're hardcore...

Donna said...

Good job Ben. That really is pretty cool. Although, you know how you feel when a 16 year old gets a driver license, luckily I don't fly much...ha ha I know I'm soooo funny.