Day #5

Today my class finished up the Radar section we started on the night before. We learned about Primary and Secondary Radar, their components, and their advantages and disadvantages. It was pretty cool to learn how the radar works, I only knew the very very minimal way it worked, bouncing radio signals, but I learned there are a lot more ways it can be used. Then we took the quiz and started on the next section.

After that we started on the FAA manuals and Orders. We learned about the Orders 7110.10, 7110.65, 7210.3, 7340.1, 7350.7, changes to these documents with changes, notices, and supplements, and also the AIM (Aeronautical Information Manual. This part was said to be a very boring and tedious part of training, but our instructor made it quiet painless and to tell you the truth, I didn't think I could memorize what every Order and Manual was in under 1 hour, but he definitely got us to memorize it, or at least me.
At the end of the Orders and Manuals we learned about the words May, Shall, Should, and Will. Their definitions and their uses. These are important words that are used in the documents. For example the word Shall means that something is mandatory, the word Should is something that is recommended, May is optional, and finally will just means that it isn't really required. After that we took another quiz.

After that we started on the Letters of Agreement and Standard Operation Procedures. This part was quiet easy as long as you know the definition of what each one and who they apply to. This was a quick 2 hour lesson and then a quick 10 question quiz.

After that we started our review for the Block test we have for day 6. We first started by being split our into 4 teams, each who table of 4 were a team. Then we played Jeopardy, this game really help make us think and was really fun. My team won the jeopardy game with $26,396. Not that it really mattered, but I really hate loosing so I'm glad I didn't have to hear any crap talk. But as the instructors said, it is only a game and the main thing is to have fun and learn.

After the game we reviewed the entire block 1 stuff, and that took a whole 45 mins. We just skimmed through it with the instructor asking us questions and it was a pretty fast review. I was surprised at how much I learned and remembered in a week's time here at OKC.