My First Ground School Class - May 2008

Ground school is approximately 20 hours of classroom training. It entails learning about weather, aircraft maintenance, flight regulations, navigation and aerodynamics. My instructor lives about 120 kilometres from my home. We decide, in the interest of travel time, to have four sessions, each session being five hours in duration. I was in the Chartered Financial Analyst program so I am used to marathon sessions, however, my instructor after the fourth hour of my highlights and questions starts answering my questions by “you don’t need to know that”. C’est la vie.

The instruction takes place in his beautiful wood exposed home on a picturesque 11 acre lot. Occasionally I am distracted by the wandering deer outside his kitchen window. It is very pleasant. His wife has a nice fruit pie prepared for our break. Hey, maybe I don’t need to know everything about aerodynamics in the first week. It is going okay.