Catching up with the Cunninghams: My Pilot Starts Flying!

Flights:

Christian has finally started flying!! His first flight was on Friday, so all day Thursday he was studying everything he had to have memorized. My husband does not normally stress, so when he does I know it's bad. I offered to help him study, which tested his patience with me (didn't understand that..) but in the end he said I helped a lot! :-)

After his pre-flight stuff was over he finally got to get up in the air with his instructor, who wanted to show him all the barrel rolls and flips their little trainer plane could do. Due to Christian being incredibly stressed about remembering everything he had memorized the night before, Christian forgot to grab a "barf-bag" on the way out to the plane. OOPS! So he had to ask the instructor to cool it on the acrobatics... Thank goodness his instructor was nice about it, because if he would have puked, with no barf-bag, it would have had to go down his flight suit. Do you know who cleans his flight suit? This girl right here. So thank you instructor!! :-)

He also flew Saturday and Sunday, which he said went well. But he had yesterday off, which was great because I finally got some time with my husband!

I can't believe the amount of stuff they have to have memorized! It's so crazy! They have to have so much memorized, WORD FOR WORD. I mean, I understand they need to know how the plane works and what to do in case of emergency, but if he forgets a "the" or "a" in a sentence then the entire thing is off. Usually if he's studying I'll try to get out of the house so he can concentrate, so I'll go to the gym, or go to my parents for a little bit. I don't want him to feel like he has to focus on me, I want him to focus on studying. I can be patient until he needs a study break or has a day off :-) I'm so incredibly proud of my husband and how hard he works.