I've been flying a lot recently. A tiny little tailwheel acro plane for UND, and a retractable-gear airplane for the same. Out at Crookston, where I rent out of, I've flown their Cessna 150 a couple times. It's sort of like a hang-glider with an engine attached and a windshield.
Meanwhile, I'm planning a trip to the cities with a couple friends to go to a concert the weekend before finals, and we're planning on flying down there in the Crookston Warrior. At current state, I'm the only one checked out on that plane, although Cass, a friend going with, might be checked out by then. Or at least, she'd better be, she owes me a flight.
It keeps me quite upbeat, that level of busy. It's stressful, but I find I'm most content when I'm at my optimal stress level. I like my downtime, but I also like doing logistics, scheduling things, thinking about travel times, making stuff work out, organizing and such.
It's expensive, but I'm hoping to get extra hours at work or possibly a second job so as to augment my income and fly a lot. Speaking of money...
I've been looking at internships. Thing is, they interrupt my schedule. I know that I want to be here this summer and fall, but perhaps spring, when I would be taking my CFI-Instrument? It takes a lot for me to give up a semester like that, but it might be a very good thing in the long run. I hear a lot of people saying that aviation internships aren't so much an internship as they are an extended interview. I'd have to be on my best behavior, but if I could get a job offer out of it...well, that's worth a semester to me.
Which is important, because I'll make my initial graduation by end of next year. I'll have another year after that, but that one seems like an option for me, almost a fallback. Something to do and to keep my student loans at bay while I look for a job.
Weird, but I'm actually getting out there.
TRH
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