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May 04, 2025
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Sunday, May 4th, 2025

Writing to you from Denver, Colorado

Things have been going fairly well around here in terms of making good progress. Things get busier and busier - and that’s a good thing.

I started the practical training for flight school one month ago. Unfortunately, due to weather (unavoidable) and the flight school scheduling me with instructors that don’t have time I have only been able to get six flights in.

It adds up to 8.6 total flight hours.

Resolution?

This past week I told the people at the flight school about the problems I’ve been having in trying to get more flight hours. They came up with a solution for me: splitting my time between two instructors who have decent availability.

Instead of 3 flights scheduled in a week it’ll be 5!

At least for this next week, but…

That’s a whole lot better considering that in the past month I was usually only able to get 1-2 flights per week. Of course, mountain weather plays a huge factor in loss of flight time - turbulent wind, afternoo…

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