TR complete!

It is finished.

Well other than the fact that I have the JG Instrument Proficiency Check today and a training day tomorrow.

The skills test was a lot easier than the training, but still intense enough for me!  So glad to have it over with and my second type in the bag.  That will do me for a little while - although my sim partner is already applying for other jobs!

Wow.

Flying over Jungfrau at 12,000', what could be more beautiful?

The glaciers, winding and melding together.

The mountains so immense and so majestic.

The reservoir where James Bond was filmed, along with the crazy hair pin road.

It was all just so intense, such an incredible experience.  The mountains falling away to reveal the more undulating terrain approaching Zurich.

What a day out! 

Chinese, in Zurich: better than Aus for sure.  When in Zurich do as the Chinese do?  The place we went definitely looked the part, and my Szechuan Duck with added chilli soy was lovely.

Did I mention this before?  I'm not sure.  It was a few days ago that we are there, but I went for takeaway again yesterday.

I also found some stuffed goats, the closest thing to the real deal in Switzerland.  So much for Heidi.

All the training sims are completed and after the last two my muscles are sore from hauling a semi-broken simulator around the sky (hydraulics and flight controls issues)

One day off tomorrow and apparently I am going flying as Kaitlyn's friend is taking us to see glaciers!  What fun! 

Check on Monday... 🤢

6 sims down, two more training sims to go before the skills test : and of course the day after that there is the JG check followed by the training day.

But now for two days off, mostly spent studying but somewhat filled with cheap wine, the lake (if it warms up) and a little chilling.

I feel like I need it! 

It's a beautiful morning, I have the windows wide open and fan running.  My day off for the weekend, having had a gloriously extravagant shower (a whole ten minutes!), the day stretches out ahead with endless hours... for studying.

Sim 3 is behind us, although it was terrifically messy and I didn't think particularly well done.  I had my EASA medical yesterday morning - my, the Swiss are intense - and I'm pretty sure after that experience I am guaranteed to live at least 1,000 years.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday hold three sins at 1245, 0845 and 0445 respectively, so today is trying to get ahead of the study as especially between Sunday and Monday there will be little to no time to prep.  Then we get a couple of days off - hurray!

Maybe this afternoon, if I have an efficient morning, we will go for a swim in the lake.

Last night we went to a Chinese restaurant - well, three of us did - and it was really nice.

F refused to be in the photos.

Storms

It is storming again, which is lovely as it brings the musty but fresh storm smell along with it, and the heavy thunder.  I open my windows wide so I can enjoy it: what's a little rain on the floor?  

It was another long day for sim#2, I'm not sure why I always get left with the weird ones but there you go.  For me, it went well, for my sim partner, let's say that he is walking on very thin ice.  I truly hope it improves in sim#3, which is incidentally tomorrow night 2045-0300.  I then have my EASA medical at 0800!  Whoopee :)

The weekend off, I think will be spent studying, as apparently the sims ramp up from now on in! 

At 0700, the bells woke me, having no compassion for the fact that I didn't sleep until 0130.  I went to bed at 2230 like a responsible citizen, but was wide awake and unable to rest for hours.  I'm putting it down to a combination of stress before the sim today and pain from the pulled muscle in my neck (not to be confused with nerve pain).  

I'm actually sleeping in the spare room, as one of the many tricks I tried last night which included eating popcorn, reading a book, showering, changing rooms to enjoy the freshly laundered sheets in Room #2, and despairing of ever getting to sleep.  It's weird how the more one wants to sleep the more one realises that one has absolutely no idea how to achieve it.  

Yesterday we had Emergency Procedures which was the most pointless course I've been on - as we have to do a company specific course anyway - but the fire fighting was fun!

I'm the stubby one, second from the left 

It is now Sim Day, full flight sim #1, but I have until lunch time before I go in.  Wish me luck!