Spirit support
Spirit support 11 months today, our beautiful Juliana left this world. Its been a whirlwind of an experience. I haven’t been posting in my blog as my attention was intensely focused on studying and passing my flight exam and check ride. I’m happy to announce the instrument rating is now behind me as I passed with flying colors, literally. The magnitude of the preparation has been all consuming. I didn’t know that I actually had the ability to study with such dedication. The flying practice itself was extremely challenging and many days I wanted to give up. During the check ride, (after we had been already flying for over an hour,) I was feeling extreme doubt and exhaustion. My examiner was doing his best to cause a disorienting situation by changing my instruments. He placed sticky notes on three of the critical instruments then expected me to find my way with only use of a oscillating compass, all the time remaining on course. I was privately in a panic