anybody hear about the 10 days instrument rating??? I am wandering if you have any input on this o hear anyone taking this rating there???

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Carlo

I begin my Tracon Basics class on August 18th. Yup, 5 days from today. At first, I was in shock, because of all the things that I knew would need to be done. However, now that things have settled for a bit, I'm a bit more calm.

Ok, here's what happened. I went out with my brother-in-law to drop a load of garbage off at the landfill. After we'd made our drop off, I checked my iPhone for e-mail. There was one waiting that listed my name, my facility, and class date in the subject. My...

Somehow I was supposed to go up but weather got in the way, but I got some ground school instead. There were towering cumulus clouds with lightning distant to the west and southwest. When I was driving to the airport, I saw the big puffy clouds and when I checked the METAR and TAF for Midway and Gary and Midway's visibility and ceiling dropped when the clouds came by. It got a little bit dark but did not rain or storm, so we could not fly. I remembered when the weatherman said that there would be...

Weather is still consuming our class... But only until Tuesday. We have covered AIRMETs, METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, Convective SIGMETs, and any other type of weather reporting you could ever possibly imagine. However, what the people from the NWS fail to let you know is that reading a METAR is NOT the same as the ATIS you will have at your airport. Here's a brief example of a METAR and what it means.

KFSM 111553Z VRB06KT 10SM FEW013 24/20 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP205 T02390200

Translation:...

Hey everyone!

First and foremost I want to apologize for the lack of updates recently. Last week we began night shift (July 27 through the 31st) and I was honestly too exhausted to get online and type about the evenings I had been experiencing. So, thanks in part to jeffm1999, I have decided to start updating my blog again as much as possible. I will try to give a rundown of the things that we covered last week and this week as best as I can.

Last week we spent going...