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| Date | 08-12-2008 |
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| Message | (Monday 1150) This morning the thermometer was reading -21C. We decorated the house with some Christmas lights. The cold temperatures and snow cover really make a Christmas spirit. This morning I paid a visit to the base surgeon to get grounded due to a cold. I cannot clear my ears so it wouldn't be wise to fly. I got permission to leave the school so I'm at home right now. I planned to study all day but my little boy thinks we should play all day so we have to find a compromise together. Tomorrow we have the final exam in Meteorology. Hopefully all goes well. Now I want to get some lunch. /GEA |
| Date | 05-12-2008 |
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| Message | (Friday 1455) Another week over and I still haven't flown. LOD and myself will be going to Regina to do some Christmas shopping later on. Then afterwards MAT will be coming here as we've agreed to watch "The good, the bad and the ugly." I like that movie but I'm kind of lonely in that area so when I found out that MAT likes it too, we agreed to make a "video date." Tomorrow's the day where we'll be having our annual Christmas ddinner (just us Danes). A Danish priest from the Air Force arrived here yesterday in order to give us the yearly Christmas mass and afterwards it's on to (ALOT) of traditional Danish food and a bit of drinking. I get hungry just writing about it! On Tuesday we have our final exam in Meteorology so I'll be using some time on that too this weekend. We also started a new subject today called Military pilot performance which is basically the same as the military version of Crew Resource Management. It's quite interesting and the best thing about it is that there's no exam in it. That's it for now. Stay warm. /GEA |
| Date | 03-12-2008 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 1310) So I got up this morning, earlier than usual as I was on the flying programme, and looked out the window. It was beautiful - all white covered in snow but I knew that my chances of getting in the air were dim. And you guessed it; I got cancelled yet once again. The temperature is only -13 but we have a 30kt wind which makes it extremely cold on the skin when you're walking out in the open. It's painful and I simply cannot comprehend what it's going to be like in January and February. This morning I grabbed a plane and did some cockpit drills. Now I'm really doubting if I'll fly at all before Christmas. This Friday LOD and I will be driving to Regina after school, going to Toys R us to buy a christmas present for my little boy and for LOD's nephew. That's the highlight of the week I guess... /GEA |
| Date | 01-12-2008 |
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| Message | (Monday 1215) I was on today's flying programme again but just got cancelled due to the crosswind factor being above the limits. So the whole school is on standby until the wind conditions change. The weekend was great. I spent alot of time with my little boy, including walking COM's puppy on Saturday, which he thought was awesome. Another big news that I should mention is that LOD scored his first goal in ice hockey yesterday...so he's in a really good mood today! This morning we started off at 0700 with PD&C (Phsical development and condition) where we did spinning on those wheel-less (point-less) bikes. I'd never tried it before and it's a good work out. After that it was on to a couple of lessons of Flight Safety with the local flight safety officer who is an ex F18 driver. The subject today was FOD (Foreign object damage) to aircraft. FOD can be anything lying on the runway, from a small pebble to garbage which has been blown on the runway. If injested into the aircraft's engine it could destroy the engine and in worst case bring the aircraft down with a possible loss of life. FOD can also be unwanted objects in the cockpit which can get stuck in - and jam - the flight controls or screw up with the ejection seat. And now, back to standing by... /GEA |
| Date | 28-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Friday 1120) I didn't fly yesterday and I'm not on the programme today either. Somebody up there must not like me. Maybe I'll be on tomorrow's programme but to be honest I don't know whether I would enjoy a day off more than a flight on a Saturday. You have to think that when you fly you don't just fly. You have to attend the morning briefing at 0700 and then you're basically in the whole day. Yesterday evening we had "Soup and movie" night at one of the Danish instructors. It was a nice and quiet evening. My little boy is getting acquainted to the day care at the base. Apparently there are many French Canadians as yesterday after asking him something he answered me: "Oui" Have a nice weekend. /GEA |
| Date | 26-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 1315) Just got back from my flight...NOT! I was really close though. My instructor briefed me, we put our flight gear on and went down to duty ops. The weather had been ok with a ceiling of 10,000 feet but as soon as we got to duty ops it simply closed down. Base at 1600 feet and wet snow. So we got cancelled. Grrr! The weather tomorrow is forecasted really good but let's see if there's something else in the way of the flight. All I can do is wait and when it happens it happens. /GEA |
| Date | 25-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Tuesday 2020) The winter survival training was fun today, mostly because we had really beautiful weather. 5 degrees and bright sunshine and not a breeze of wind. Tomorrow starts with a phsical training lesson at 0700 followed by three lessons of Meteorology. We're approaching the end of that subject and we're gonna be really happy when we're done with it as it fills quite a big portion of our schedule at the moment. I'm on the flight programme schedule for tomorrow at 1300 and I have a feeling that this time I'll actually get to fly. The weather forecast is promising and the flight does not conflict with ground school schedule. The only thing is that I'll be briefing in my lunch break but I can live with that. I think that I'm prepared well for the flight but you can always practise the red pages an extra time or two among other things - so I will before I head to bed. /GEA |
| Date | 24-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Monday 2230) Guess whether I got to fly today. At least the Meteorology prog test went well. The class average for the test was 100% so the instructor had a hard time working that out. Tomorrow we're not available for the flying programme as all foreign nationals are to attend a course in Winter Survival. It'll be all the Italians, a German instructor, the Hungarians and us of course. The idea is to get theoretical knowledge before noon and then it's on to trying some of the learnt skills outside in the afternoon. Fortunately we're going to have 4 degrees and sunshine which is awesome. I sure am happy that we didn't have to go through the course in cold weather. Then perhaps Wednesday I'll finally get my (long awaited) first flight in the Harvard II. Stay tuned! /GEA |
| Date | 23-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Sunday 1910) Yesterday we attended the Bandit solo party for the senior students. It was held at the officer's mess and it was nice to see how it's done. Then in the evening, eight of us Danes met up at MAT's place with our laptops and we played Battlefield 2 for a few hours. I had forgotten how much fun it was to shoot your friends from a great distance with a sniper rifle. Today was a rather relaxed day. I'm actually on tomorrow's flying programme but I don't know how realistic it is to get in the air as we have a ground school prog test in Meteorology at around the same time that I should be in for my flight briefing. Hopefully the test goes well... /GEA |
| Date | 21-11-2008 |
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| Message | (Friday 0945) Just been to the morning briefing. Normally it would be TGIF today but apparently that's a thing of the past. We're so much behind with the flying programme that we have to come in for the early briefing at 0700 tomorrow morning...and maybe Sunday too. And the chances of even getting in the air are still very small but we have to be here anyway. Otherwise there's a bit of slightly off-topic news. Norway have officially decided that they will buy the F35 JSF as replacement for their F16 when the time comes. Yesterday it seems that a meteorite hit the Earth here in Sasketchewan at about 1825. There were many eye witnesses but unfortunately I wasn't one of them. They said that the sky lit up brightly for a few seconds and one witness said that it was trailing a tail of fire about 2 miles long. Anyway, I better stand by to wait - as usual. COM's on the flying programme again for the fourth day in a row. I hope he finally gets in the air today and he certainly does! The last two mornings the temperature was -14C but I was surprised at how fast the car started. However it took me longer to scrape ice off it than it took me to drive to school. /GEA |
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