I have not flown any in the past 10 days, I really miss it. The training school bought a new R66 helicopter and my instructor had to travel to California to pickup the helicopter and fly it back to Florida. Then his brother came to visit from Germany, so he took some time off to spend with his brother. I will be back flying some time next week, I can not wait.
Life has been less busy with out having to travel to fly, it has been kind of nice, but I would rather remove work or school from my schedule and fly more.
The summer semester has started and I am taking three classes. A health class, a personal finance class and some kind of transport class. The health class runs the full 12 weeks of the summer semester. The personal finance class runs the first six weeks and the transport class the last six weeks. So far so good, I am on task and keeping up without feeling overwhelmed. We will see how I feel after I start flying again.
I am pretty excited that the school got a R66. Right now I am flying a R44, it is a 4 person reciprocating air-cooled engine helicopter. It has pretty good performance and they are very common because they have a reasonably low per hour operating cost. An R66 is a 5 person turbine engine helicopter, the bigger helicopters all have turbine engines. If I get to fly it, I will have turbine experience, which can be helpful in the future after I have my commercial license and am applying for jobs.
Maybe in the Fall semester I will budget to get a GoPro Hero camera so I can record my flight adventures.
R48
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