First marks in a long time

Hey again,

As the title explains, today we got our first marks of the training here. But before that, we had to wait an hour, because we first had ACD. Keep in mind, we have the same instructor for both ACD and ACT. After about an hour, in which we discussed Single Engine Utility Aircraft and how to recognize them, we finally got our marks. I passed the test with a beautiful 92% (2 questions, instead of one expected, with a wrong answer). Could've gotten a better result, with a tiny bit more attention to details but nothing I can do about it now...
Further in ACT, we got an introduction on how aircraft engines work internally.

In NAV, which we had after the morning break, we discussed the Earth's magnetism and speed. A few (small) errors made by the instructor, during the 2-hour course (eg. -273° Kelvin = 0° C according to him, while in reality it is the other way around) but most of us understood the explanation anyway.

After lunch, we had AN2 and RTB coming up. In AN2 we finished the airspace classes (A - G) and their characteristics, as well as how the general layout of these classes is in Switzerland, Austra, Italy, France and Germany. Apart from Germany and France, I don't really know why MUAC Students also need to learn the global structure, but I guess there's no chance of escaping it?
RTB is a new course for us, given by the Chief Instructor (Clive Pile, for the interested) at Skyguide, so I had actually expected it to be a thorough one. Turns out it's the exact opposite actually. Even though the material he'll be teaching us, will be very hard to learn (most of it will be "know this to the letter"-type of material) he has a certain relaxing effect on us. He also has a lot of experience (hence the position of CI probably) which gives him the opportunity of telling us all kinds of so-called "war stories" (= own experiences during or related to the job). One example is his life as an ATCo at Kai Tak Airport, near Hong Kong.

A normal approach at Kai Tak (this one actually does pretty decent)


After school, which was particularly early (16h05 instead of 16h45) I went home, surfed the web a bit and then went for a run with Kristof and Michael. Left the apartment at 17h55 and got back in at 18h50. Have to admit I didn't run the entire time, but I did manage to get an average of approximately 10-12km/h over a distance of 1 mile, despite the terrain. I am actually pretty proud of that (even though it killed the stamina I needed to continue the run afterwards).

Finished the day by some more surfing the web and a bit of ACD studying, tomorrow we start with RTB, continue with AN2 and ADY, to finish with RAD.

See you.