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PIcture of the Week

PIcture of the Week

George Patton quotes

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Wednesday

I had another flight yesterday and it went really good. Mondays flight was really frustrating but yesterdays went really good. I made two landings right off the bat and the first one was pretty good. The second wasn't that great I landed the plane just a little rough. We hit pretty hard, then we porpoised which means you hit the ground then bounce up then hit then bounce then hit then bounce then you finally land. It was pretty exciting. As they say in the flight business if anything happens in the plane it's always exciting not scary or surprising just very interesting or exciting. Then we took of to practice stalls, again very exciting! In case you don't know it's where you try to make the plane not to fly. You cut your speed and pitch the nose up and wait for the plane to stop flying, then you recover. All in all it's getting better in the plane. The ground school is going OK. I had a test that I studied for pretty good, and after the test I felt really good about it. I knew I missed one or two but when I looked my score up, I just barley passed. It was really disappointing, but I just have to get over it and do better next time. If I don't get an A or B in my flight class 102 I won't be able to get the helicopter scholarship. No pressure right?

2 comments:

Kari said...

We're doing pretty well. How are you guys, wherever you are? Dakota? Wyoming? Montana? Sorry, I don't remember. How's life as a dad? When will you be done with school? Don't you hate that question?

Natalie said...

This is really obvious advice, but I think it can help you get that "A" you need: Study for the test material on your own, and then have Shellie quiz you over and over and over. The repetition of her asking you the questions and you answering them will stick in your memory. You will do better this way not only from the repetition, but because you will initially study harder because you will want to impress Shellie with your intelligence when she asks you the questions. Plus, it's always more fun to have a study buddy.