I have got to post updates more often

Okay I am back with a past thanksgiving near the end of Semester/Quarter update. My GRCC classes are decent not great (Great would be all As) I have a two Mid Range Bs a low B and a mid range C (Stupid Weather classes) Over on the UNM side of things my one English course is a C which I am hoping to at least get to a low B somehow if possible. I still wish I took it in person but oh freaking well. I am still as of 11/30 at 1:30 AM Mt time waiting on finding out if I got a dorm for GRCC for winter Quarter. (Maybe got that letter today but did not check mail.) I hope to hear from that end of things soon because I need to know if people need to cancel plane tickets and me wait on moving till March or hold onto the plane tickets and get ready to move soon as we plan on leaving as of now December 29th with my last day of working at the wonderful job I have LA Monitor the prior day! Have a great few weeks and I will get back to you all as soon as I find out if I got a place or not.

Up date on English and Avia 103

So as you all know I took English 100 this summer well I got an A so woot woot now onto English 110 in fall online. Oh yeah that Aviation history and careers course I got an A so please another woot woot! In other news I got a job now and I think I will do well this fall but only time can tell!

Goodish News!

I have some good well goodish News(Goodish- Sorta Good sorta ehh). I have figured out my back up plan if this Air Traffic Controller thing does not work out which as of this time (8:55 AM 2/21/14) I still do not know how my mental exam went Hopeful to find out by Next Friday. Anyways if it does not work out I have Decided I will go for airline dispatcher! There are a lot of neat benefits according to a blog (http://myfiftypercent.net/) I found you get to fly in the jump seat heck your required to for at least 5 hours per year even better after the 5 per year you get to fly in the jump seat on the flight deck when ever you want as long as the Cap says yes among other things.

I do not know what to do!

Well as some of you know I went on a tour of ZAB and ABQ Terminal/TRACON yesterday (2/16/14 is when this should post so 2/15/14). Of course I asked questions but I found out some bad news as of Dec 30th 2013 the CTI program A no longer gives you any priority at the FAA. As if that was bad enough for me Found out B that it is true they are taking applications right now and C while I can not confirm this you have to be 19 D they normally only take lots of applications 1-3 times every 10 or so years so its like crap I may miss it with no fault of my own and if that was not bad enough they want either a bachelors degree or three years of work experience or a mix ENMR will only give me an associates. This just messes up my entire plan! As some of you who know me very well I hate hate school so I had planed to do as little school as possible I mean its the best option for me. Knowing that My plan was go for ENMR's associates degree in applied science Air Traffic Control, while waiting for the FAA to call me I would then go for Eastern New Mexico's Aviation Science Bachelor of Applied Arts and Science or their Aviation Science Bachelor of Science if FAA called me between when I started and when I finished it then fine I would go to OKC then finish when I had the time and Money (both are mostly if not all online which could help). I wish I could use my auto classes as three years of job exsperince yes I could just go for the bachlers now but like I said I hate school but I knw it looks good to have a bachlers so that's why I was like my orginal plan works for me cuz enmrs stuff would quickly transfer to easterns stuff and I would only have to take maybe a year and a 1/2 of classes

I do not know what to do

Just plane fun!

So this weekend I get to go on a tour of ZAB and ABQ ATCTT I have done one once before but that was a few years ago I think it will be interesting to see what if any Next Gen has been added to center and the ATCTT I know they were working on the RNAV departures/arrivals into ABQ so maybe by now they have been implemented. Hoping that this will lead to a Job Shadow or perhaps summer internship at ZAB or ABQ ATCTT if I am lucky! Odds are no but maybe if I ask around on the tour you never know right?

So far So good

Well in both my classes SM and HFA are going well! I have been able to learn new things. For example Pilot Error includes bad placement of instruments or instruments that do not function well. I have more examples but I want to keep this post short and sweet more new stuff to come!

I done messed up

Man I feel stupid I may of used a wiki type thing on an essay for HFA I had a 75/75 on it then yesterday she leaves the class a little online thing saying don't use Wikipedia as a sources its not credible and I looked at my grade it had gone to I am regrading your essay so now I sit and wait to find out if I messed up or not if you want to read it here you go (copy and past link or click on it) (Oh if you need translation on any terms used in essay leave a comment, and it was three pages when I printed it and when I saved as a word doc and its 650-700 words can not recall exact)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Jh_FCneBxhfrjqeWX5-zQTuR9brlGSsa4QIQrBuj4I/pub

Tomorrow Tomorrow not look forward to Tomorrow

As the title says I am not looking forward to tomorrow (1/13/14) I start my Human Factors in Aviation (HFA) course and my Stress Management Course (SM) I guess I am just freaked out that I wont understand the HFA that much but I know I need the SM ask anyone who knows me they all say you need Stress Management which I can see I mean look at me I am stressing over something Airplane related I never do that I mean I am an airplane Geek I live breath sleep planes but oh well I guess after last semester I am more down to Earth as in I know I am not Amazing Airplane Geek I know all
Anyways those of you who read this who are in collage or high school good luck this semester! Class of 2014 kick some ass T-5 months and counting

Stress Management

I have been told I need Stress Management in my life from multiple people friends a teacher who I have had all 4 years of high school and knows me very well (Hes the one who got me to realize I need to lay off soda!) heck you know its bad when your best female friend is like dude you have got to relax and then offers to buy you soda to calm down. So basically what I am trying to say is I hope this class next semester helps

Well I passed!!!!!!

Well for the one or two people that read this blog I am proud to say I passed both Aviation Physics and Aviation Weather. Physics with a flat 70% which is just barely enough to get a recommendation to the FAA from ENMR and  Weather was a 77%. Not the best in the world I know I could of done better but hey it brought me down to Earth as in it reminded me one thing you can never stop learning about something you love and you will never know everything about the thing you love more then anything well I love two people more God and this one girl not going to say her name but you get my point. Anyways next semester I am taking stress management and Human Factors in Aviation and I cant wait!

Well took my finals

Well I took my finals, so far as of 9:57 Local I don't know my grades, but what I can tell you is I was in the same room for what felt like 12 hours but odds are was more like 5 hours. Anyways I can tell you this I bet I got like a C or a B which no matter what should not lower my grade past a 70 which means well I passed it for the recommendation to the FAA in a few years well 18-24 months after I get into ENMR. Well this may be my last post for a few week maybe A trip report about my Christmas trip to SAT and HOU but not sure yet.

Next Week... Finals

Its that time of year again when collage and high schools around the nation have finals! Next week I have my two collage course finals and to be perfectly fair I am scared of failing them right now both courses are Cs ones a high C ones a low to mid range. I never thought I would ever say this but I am not as smart as I thought when it came to airplanes, but hey this has taught me so me a lot of things so I am thankful now for photos from Thanksgiving trip If you want more info email me

DFW

AT&T Stadium 

AT&T Stadium  

Randolph Air Force Base I think

Sun Rise over New Mexico

Aviation Physics will kill me/ A little Veterans Day thank you

As you can probably tell from the post I am just having issues with my Aviation Physics Course. I am decent with Physics, but for some strange reason I cant connect aviation and Physics. I need to find someone who can help me with it should not be too hard to find someone in this town. Oh My aviation weather course still holding a B! This is a little tiny update. Now for Veterans day Thank You.

Dear Vets,

On this Day I would like to thank you for your service. No matter what you agreed to serve and defend your country and our freedoms, to the best of your ability. You knew the risks and excepted them. You charged into battle with out thinking why. You just did! So today of all days America thanks you, but we should thank you all everyday!

Well the Grade

So I told you all I had a mid term Tuesday and I would put the Grade up. Lets just say I am not happy with my self at all about it so with out further delay I got a 74 which murdered my grade in Aviation Weather down to a sad 82% from an 89% how ever I did get an 88% on my latest quiz which was on thunderstorms so that bumped me to an 84% so if my math is right if I keep getting 88%s I should be fine
Now onto my other course which just looks like pure hell on earth for me: Theory of Flight and Aerodynamics (Should be fun right?)

Well tomorrow is the day of my Mid Terms

Well tomorrow 10/15/13 at 09:35 MDT I have my mid term on aviation weather. Scared I won't do great but I will try my best! I guess I am just hoping for some good luck, to be on my side or something! All I can say now is as soon as I find out my results I will let you all know. In other news I am proud of my self I got a 26/27 on my week 7 (last week 10/12/13) aviation weather quiz and did not understand 75% of the section it was on Cold fronts and cyclones which all of it was new to me (Will dive more into each section after my mid term is done and I have plenty of time to write about it!)

An update

So now for the near mid term update on my grade for the Aviation Weather Course I am taking. I have a B+ 87% well 86.6667 so I assume its rounded up to an 87. For a guy with little to no flying experience I take that as a great grade. But one thing I need to do is find someone who is at least a pilot to mentor me.

I got a C

I got a C on an aviation weather quiz. Yes me an airplane geek who lives breaths sleeps planes! I thought weather would be easy, but it is a pain in the butt when you have not heard of 1/2 the terms and the other 1/2 you have but have never needed to apply due to not being a pilot. I sure hope that in the long term this weather thing becomes easier! I may need to find a pilot to be my tutor for this course otherwise I may have some issues.

Sorry I looked like I was dead for a while

Well people I am back in school also known as High School. With that being said I am so sorry It has taken me over a month to post well updates: I passed a one course failed another and am planning to re-take as soon as I can which may be next summer. So with that drum roll please with the Aviation Security Course I got as my final grade a 98 and math don't ask as I said above I failed math has and never will be my thing. With that you may be wondering what in the world I am going to be taking this semester well besides my High School courses I will be taking Aviation Weather and starting week 9 of ENMR's semester I will be taking basically the way I see it an aviation physics 101 type course. So don't worry I am not dead and I will post updates when I can but school will come first before the blog okay who am I kidding I would much rather do this then Home Work. Now I got to have some fun this past weekend I got to go up in a Kit Version of a Piper Super Cub after using it for the back ground of my senior photos yes I am a senior in High School . The best part of the flight was we flew her open it was a blast. I have to thank the owner of her for letting us use her as the background then taking me up!  Now for photos (Keep in mind you can use these for wall papers and I plan on adding all the photos from the flight up to the Photos page)

Why I hate Blackboard

Now before I began my rant let me first tell you what Blackboard is. Blackboard is an online well class room for lack of a better term. In this I have every thing the professor assigns for the Aviation Security Course I am taking. Well Last Saturday we had a huge rain storm which knocked out power for just about one minute. At this time I had just said go to next question on a quiz I was taking, so the page did not loud so I refreshed the page after internet came back and it said I had finished the quiz when I knew I had not as I was only 8 questions in out of 25 questions. Thankfully my professor was nice and will let me re-take the quiz sometime this Saturday so as long as power does not go out then I will be a happy camper.
Now the rant. Don't worry its short!
Dear Blackboard
 If a page does not loud during a quiz and one hits re-fresh well you think they finished the test and you kick them out of the test this is pure stupidniss. Please change to where if someone hits re-fresh just take them back to where they were instead of kicking them off the test.
  
From.
Me

So what exactly am I taking

So as of now I am taking two classes a math class which we will not talk about (its not that important okay yes math is important but its basically college algebra nothing to special) and the other class is a course in aviation security. The course its self is online so makes life easy for me as I don't have set time when I need to log on or anything, in fact most of the courses I will be taking this year as I plan on taking two more in the fall two more in spring then two the summer in between when I graduate from high school and when I head down to ENMR (Eastern New Mexico Roswell). Now you must be thinking to your self why in the world are you taking so many courses now, well a little thing called the sequester is the cause, When we went down to ENMR over spring break last year, the instructor well dean of program and one of the instructors for the program said I should start now, or as soon as I can so I am in the pipe so if I did well on a little aptitude test and she gives me her recommendation to the FAA in about three years I still had a chance to be interviewed and sent to the FAA training. So that's why I am trying to do as many courses as I can now to get them done and up to KOKC sooner then later, plus as I am in High School I get the courses for free thanks to my High School picking up tab and the summer stuff that's free as our local community collage gives a summer bridge scholarship where I take two basic courses which for me would be English and writing as this is the last math I need to take yes I took one last summer as well figured if they give it to me free may as well do it right?
Now lets talk about the course its self other then the fact its 100% on line. We do two chapters a week post something we learn on the two chapters and then take a quiz on them by Saturday night. The text book is very well written except I have found one small error they had a photo of a TED A320 which they called a Boeing 757. The book has opened my eyes to many aspects of TSA, and airline/government rules which I had never heard of, granted I am an Airplane Geek and not a Security/Law freak but still figured I would know some of them nope I did not know much of the rules and such so I am enjoying the course just because its something New to me Plane Related (NPR)