Due to the pipeline disaster caused by T-6B problems, I've been off the schedule for pretty much a month. By that, I mean a month ago I flew my very first Contact flight, then two weeks later I flew my next flight (which was canceled midway through for IFR), and I'm coming up on a month now without being on the schedule again. To be more specific, there were plenty of days I was ON the schedule, would show up in the line shack, do the same brief (again), get told I don't have a plane and then get sent home. That's pretty normal around here. But at this point, I haven't even been called in for a brief and a shot at a plane in more than a week.
I haven't even studied the last three or four days because I simply can't find the motivation, and I'd like to maybe poll some of you for your opinions on that.
Did you ever get stuck in a "wait around" period in flight school? To clarify, I don't mean between phases (IFS - > API -> Primary), but rather in the middle of your training. If so, how did you productively study? I've studied about three briefs ahead of where I should be, but having sat my ass in the T-6B only two times at this point, it's a bit difficult to apply any of it when I get in the plane. I feel like I can only study for any one brief for so long before it's just diminishing returns.
Here are the only flight-related things I've bothered doing in my extended downtime:
I haven't even studied the last three or four days because I simply can't find the motivation, and I'd like to maybe poll some of you for your opinions on that.
Did you ever get stuck in a "wait around" period in flight school? To clarify, I don't mean between phases (IFS - > API -> Primary), but rather in the middle of your training. If so, how did you productively study? I've studied about three briefs ahead of where I should be, but having sat my ass in the T-6B only two times at this point, it's a bit difficult to apply any of it when I get in the plane. I feel like I can only study for any one brief for so long before it's just diminishing returns.
Here are the only flight-related things I've bothered doing in my extended downtime:
- Study course rules on Google Maps, practicing the radio calls and such
- Run through my maneuver and EP flash card deck
- Start learning the lims sheet
- Chair fly a few times