Here I am again

Hey,

As you have most likely noticed, no blogs came online after the one I wrote Thursday. There was only one reason for this, and that was my girlfriend staying over for the weekend. I won't go into much detail about this (some will love me for this, others will hate me) but this:

I had a great time seeing her again. :-D

Time to get back to the main topic, my training here, of this blog now. I'll begin where I left you guys and that was last Friday.

We started the day with AN2 and FPL in the morning. AN2 was a new subject so I remember being a bit anxious about it as I didn't really know what to expect of it. It was however soon clear, when we had had the first 5 minutes of class. Different kinds of airspace classes, airfield identifiers etc. is what we'll be discussing during these hours. FPL was just some further information about how to fill in an international Flight Plan. No biggie, really.

In the afternoon, we had ACD, ACT and NAV. ACD was nothing interesting (not for this blog at least) so won't talk about that, but in ACT, we found out what our first test would be here in Switzerland, namely a progress exam about lesson 1-3. Finally, to end Friday's course, we learned how to calculate the distance between two given coordinates on this blue planet called Earth.

I then rushed home, looked up information on the internet on how to get the airport by public transport (which was actually not as simple as it sounds) but luckily found other means of transport (thanks, Lars). After about a two hour wait for me (and only an extra 30 minutes of delay for her), Marjolein had finally landed at Zürich Airport.

On Sunday, we both went to the airport again, where she left me standing in front of the check-in. The first time ever I experienced one of those romantic movie-scenes where they both want to run back and fly in each other’s arms again. The only difference was, there's was no such moment. It's a shame that every hello has to end with a goodbye.

 

Back to the things at hand now: the courses we had today.

Started with FPL, ACD and ACT. Nothing special in FPL and ACD, but as mentioned before: the first Progress Test we had here in Switzerland. If I'm right, I should have gotten a 96 or 100% on that test today. Might have 1 question wrong due to a (to me) unclear picture. For those who are somewhat familiar with airplane primary control surfaces: there was a picture of an tail section and the question was whether we saw a horizontal stabilizer or a stabilator.

In the afternoon, we had RAD and BRT. Had some troubles staying up through RAD, because of the teaching method, and BRT was pretty much things I already knew. We also finished early because of good progress in the BRT-lessons.

When I got home, I met the cleaning lady of our apartment for the first time. She was standing about 30cm behind the door, I just opened and not knowing she was there, so at first she scared the living **** out of me, but then we had some small talk about what she had done in the house etc. Not really an easy thing to do if she doesn't speak English, and I only speak half a word of German.

Tomorrow we have TRM - whatever that may be is completely unknown to me - the entire morning, and we're filling the afternoon with FPL and AGA.

Talk to you later.