Thursday, September 20, 2007

day 04

While going with our bikes from the railway station of Kortenberg to SFA, we cross the "on finals route" of runway 25L (Left). Sometimes it's very quit, almost no traffic, but in the morning you can be lucky to see some heavies landing (Boeing 767 or 777 of American Airlines, Contintal Airlines, Delta Airlines ... and Airbus A330 of Jet Airways). Every time you see and hear one of them landing, you know why you're doing all this effort. Maybe some day I'll take my camera with my and make a short movie of it.

In the morning, we had electrics, which wasn't very difficult (the basics I had while studying MCT). Normally we would have had instrument navigation in the afternoon, but because the teacher couldn't be there, they replaced it by 1 hour basic radio. Next week we'll have our first test of it, and as you may know, the minimum score is always ... 75%. So I'm gonna study now :-).

This weekend (including tomorrow evening) I'm on an AFS weekend, so probably no update tomorrow evening.

have a nice weekend everyone !

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

day 03

Shortly: today we had navigation (interesting !) and more about instruments (working about the altimeter and vertical speed indicator (VSI)). And I saw a plane making a go-around this morning; hooray :p

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

day 02

Today was the first day we had "meteo" ... and to get into the right mood for that, there was this morning ... RAIN. The typical belgian rain. Anyway, I went trough it with my bike, to the railway station, arrived there really on time (good to know for tomorrow), took the train to Kortenberg (direct and only 10 minutes !), then again by bike to SFA (at least I'll practise sport 4 times a day :p), this time they received the fax from SFA with my name on it @ the security entrance :-), drank a coffee with my other classmates and went to the classroom on time.
And then we waited ... and waited ... the teacher wasn't there and wouldn't come. Normally we would have had 3 hours Mass and Balance, instead of that we went to the departure area of the airport to drink something. Expensive but sweet :-). Some of us went into the B-terminal, but since I don't have my airport badge already I wasn't allowed :(. Another time then !

In the afternoon, we had meteo. Interesting, but also not easy. The book of Instrumentation is crying for attention, gonna have a look at it now ;-)

Hasta maƱana !

Monday, September 17, 2007

day 01

Wow ! (and that's not the Vista Wow, or the abreviation of the famous but weird game ... ;-))
It looks like we'll have to play it hard. I never thought something else, but after day 1 I realised that there won't be many evenings without making resumes of what I've learned that day. Today was filled with radio communications in the morning and Instruments in the afternoon. And that's certainly not only about how to turn on your radio and change the frequency or how to read how fast you fly. So, if you don't hear something from me for a while, I won't be taken by aliens or eaten by my big fat cat, but just ... studying. And doing some observation flights in the weekends, trying to tune the communications to the frequency of Studio Brussel ;-).

Start of the day: everything went well, I was able to get out of my bed (not that I slept that well), took a shower, had a fast breakfast, got on my bike to the railway station and was there nicely on time ... the only problem was that they wouldn't let me in trough the security office at the airport. Since I still don't have my airport badge the people from SFA have to send a fax to the security people to tell them I should be allowed to enter. Well, that fax didn't arrive this morning. After waiting for about half an hour, they received a second fax ... . I can't wait to receive my airport badge !

schedule of this evening: diner and study. Hooray :-) (I'm not complaining at all !)