Weekend Update

Friday was the first day that I actually talked on the radio during my flight lesson. I have to admit that I was a little apprehensive about talking for the first time. Over and over, I asked my instructor, “ok, so what do I say again?” This was all after I read over the section in my FAR/AIM about radio communications. Anyway, I was able to communicate fairly well to Pontiac ground and get clearance to taxi to the runway. Then, when I spoke to the tower to request clearance for takeoff, it all went down hill. I was a little nervous and I asked to be cleared to takeoff on runway 9L. That would be fine, except that everyone was landing on 9L. I am sure that in that split second, the tower was thinking, “what is this guy thinking?” Before what I did had any time to sink in with the controller in the tower, my fearless instructor jumped on the radio and corrected what I had said. Crisis averted.

Saturday was Homecoming for Meagan and Mat. My gosh, you would have thought that Meagan was getting ready for the premiere of a motion picture that she was starring in. She got home from her Dad’s at 11:30AM and she spent until 8:00pm getting ready. On the other hand, Mat started getting ready at about 7:00PM and he only started at 7 because he thought they were leaving at 7:30. Girls are funny. No girl I ever dated spent that long in the bathroom though. One year, we had a game on Saturday that didn’t end until 4:00PM and Homecoming started at 7:00PM. Melinda vowed that for her sanity, Meagan will not take that long next year.