I am beat. My flying has taken a turn for the worse. I actually had an agreement to continue with the CFII and MEI plus the 15h multi PIC with Sheble but my (multi) flying sucks right now. I think I need a break. IR/CPL SE+ME/CFI in two weeks has been fun but extremely demanding. On top of that I had to write pappers to my university since I am still enrolled there so it has been 20h/day sessions during the last days.
I think I am going to rethink and just get the CFII and halt there for a while. I really need a vaccation but cannot afford one. So I just have to start working as a CFI and consider that as my vaccation.

Passed the retest. By my standards the flying was worse the second time but as long as the examiner is happy….

Flunked the CFI checkride. The 6.5 houroral went ok but the chandell during the actual flight ended ten knots fast at the end. So I got my first pink slip or whatever the notice of disapproval of application is usually called.
Got half an hour of training this afternoon and will redo the test tomorrow.

Really strange test by the way, I was not allowed to use instruments during the test of lazy eights and chandelles so for the first time ever during the checkride I had to do the manouvers strictly by visual references. I pointed this out to the examiner after the test and at least I will be allowed to do the chandell according to the book with the aid of the instruments next time. Personally I can do without instruments except the airspeed indicator. Without it I have a hard time keeping the chandelle smooth or end up at stall speed at the end of the turn.

While saving the last lesson plan I got a call from a insurance company interested in hiring me. A really tough choice for me, should I continue along the so attractive aviation track or should I get a job that pays well enough for me to do whatever I want (aviation…) in my spare time?
Time will tell. Have not got any final offer from them yet so I really do not know how interesting it would be.

My examiner (and since it is a CFI checkride he is not employed by sheble) got some sort of family problem so he needed to take next week and some of. So either I go to the Las Vegas FSDO and take a checkride up there or I speed up and get ready by end of saturday. That is two more days (a total of four days!) to get ready for the CFI. Well, I am always up to a challenge so I said lets settle on a Sunday checkride..
So right now I am wiriting lesson plans like I had a afterburner

Passed the commercial multi checkride today. Had another examiner, he did not say one word during the checkride except when requesting me to do something so I had no clue if I passed or not. At the end he was very happy with my flying, only thing being me not keeping enough rudder during the engine out landing on base.

Got a shot of my multi instructor Jeff, or BH as he is called around here. BH as in Back Home that is, after his favourite subject.

I said it before and I will say it again: They are efficient here at Sheble. Passed my commercial checkride and oral today. So the commercial took just two days and that included the 2+2 hours of dual vfr night/day I was lacking.
Not much to say about they checkout, lasted slightly over four hours total and there were no major problems even if I was not up to my usual standard today. Dont know why, but everything was much harder today. Mushy brain…

At 20 hours sim plus 20.3 real hours I took my checkride today passing with flying colours!
That is the rating within a week of me arriving here. Upon arrival i had 7 hours so I sure spent alot of time lately in both the sim and in a a/c since I got here!

One of the instructors did a gear up today. A guy taking of at a crossing runway without any radio calls got him so distracted that he forgot to extend the gear I guess. Amazingly enough the damage is hardly noticeable except on the props!

After two full days I got more then ten hours of flying done, that’s twice the amount anglo gave me in two weeks! Apartment is more then nice with everything as towls and stuff included and they are very new apartments. Drawback is that they are situated in the wrong end of the town so there is a twenty minute ride to get to the airport.
Sheble so far has exceeded my expectations. Very friendly and caring instructors and a lot of freebies like breakfast and snacks at the school. They keep track of you as well to be able to keep their promise of the ten days..
Brad has been assigned as my instructor. Of the instructors here I find him the most relaxed so he suits me fine..