Day #9

Since we didn't get very far on the aircraft recognition lesson last night we had a lot to catch up on today. Just about the whole class thought that this lesson sucked, but I really liked it since I got to look at a bunch of cool airplanes and learn little facts about them. I guess that was when I finally realized that I am an airplane nerd. Oh well, it's going to pay the bills.

We went over planes like a Cessna Cutlass 172, Beechcraft Baron 58, Super King Air 200 (my personal favorite in the propeller class), Boeing 777, etc... In all I think there was close to 40 different airplanes that we had to completely memorize. Not only did we have to know what the airplane was from the picture, we also had to know the aircraft identifier, weight class, manufacturer, and how many series/models were released. For the Boeing 777 example I had to say: Boeing 777, heavy weight class, B772/773, and then discuss the difference between the 200 series and the 300 series. Marty told all of us that we would have 30 years of memorization so we need to get used to it early on. After going over the material for a long time, I felt pretty good since I already knew all of the military airplanes except some of the helicopters.

We finished the day off with an extensive review of the material that we had covered throughout the week to get us ready for the second block test tomorrow.