LST
Ok.. yes I will now finally take time out of my busy life sleeping at home to update on how things have been going. Ha- to be honest I almost feel it a privilege after the chaos and stress of the last 2 months to sit down and perform the art of doing nothing.. And to be able to read the most cherished piece of gloried nonsense that is of course the Daily Mail, for the first time since I started yes I also feel honoured.. Most all I think the words to describe how we’re all feeling right now- Satisfaction, and Excitement.
The final week of the Sims concluded on saturday, with the LST taking place at 10am friday morning. Perhaps the biggest challenge of last week wasn’t so much to learn new material (since most of it was already covered) but more just to keep the wheels turning all the way to the finish line, draining every last drip of energy into the course to get to the end. The last week we had our final sims, which included running LST profiles as well as the opportunity to practice low visibility operations, flying approaches in full CAT III down to the runway, giving us an idea of what we can expect potentially in real life in just a few weeks time. Again I won’t go into too much detail but the grilling procedures kept coming and coming with failure after failure, before at long last the big day arrived.
Going into the LST all of us we we’re just completely exhausted, just completely spent on the weeks gone past.. but go in we did with heads held high, and all of us came out with a first time pass. A huge relief and the satisfaction which one can imagine that resulted from this was just frankly unbelievable, to know that all the stress and dedication had come good a ticket to the best Office Window in the world. I would love to say that night was spent in Nottingham, or a unique and exclusive night club in London- the reality is that we went no further than the local pub, enjoying a beautiful steak before crashing out early. To follow at 4am, was not so pleasant as we had to return to EMT for our circuit training in preparation for the Base Training this week.. Again the expressions on all our faces told a 2month old story so I won’t go into it- only to say that walking out the relief that we could all go home and hit the decks was just amazing.
I returned home on Saturday evening, and dwelling on the 2 months gone there is no doubt that it was the hardest have ever worked yet to reach the other side is just the most remarkable satisfaction.. The next step is to Fly the Boeing 737-800 for real. Crazy eh? Looking at the weather, it is highly likely that the base training will go ahead on Thursday but we all wait for updates with the latest.
So far the homeward comforts have been marvellous, and have never enjoyed so much.. Performing in town equally last night for the first time in months at the piano was great fun and something have much missed. All was going well today, bar one little thing.. which may make life rather uncomfortable.. Those who have adamantly read this monstrosity throughout FTE may remember that I had to endure a highly enjoyable Root Canal treatment back in Jerez last year.. and I’m pleased to inform that whilst visiting the dentist this morning he then was delighted to tell me after an Xray the problem hadn’t been fully corrected and I will now require more drilling and electric shocks.. I mean honestly- this is a nightmare.. Knowing the complications with flying and teeth and then enquired as to the best steps, before this chap then told me he was also dentist in the RAF fixing teeth of the many pilots and it would not be a problem to keep flying. But still though, honestly.. the luck of my life- something goes well and Bam a small little niggle makes this difficult arghh..
Anyway I will leave at that for now- next stop is the real deal and the chances are will put an update up at some point as to how we all get on..
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~ by Anthony on November 15, 2011.
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