Graduated from flying the T-6 today!

**CALL911** · 09-24-2009, 06:42 PM

Today I graduated from pilot training (phase II) flying the T-6. It was a blast (besides the grilling I got from all the IP's I flew with). I will miss flying the T-6 a lot. It will be the last one I am able to fly in fingertip position (less than 10 feet from another T-6) in formation. + Flying all kinds of loops, aileron rolls, barrel rolls, split-S, spins ect. It has been and will be the closest I ever get to flying a fighter for the Air Force.

Next I get to learn how to fly the T-1

**hotrod96z28** · 09-24-2009, 06:47 PM

congrats!!

**AChotrod** · 09-24-2009, 06:50 PM

Both are cool planes, but all the moves you listed sounded fun as hell! Congrats!

***Fastbird*** · 09-24-2009, 07:11 PM

Congrats buddy. I know you were sweating there for a while, and you had the worst luck ever, but I knew you'd make it. Congrats in the biggest and best of ways man, you've earned it.

**CALL911** · 09-25-2009, 03:44 PM

Thanks fellas

**The SRZ** · 09-26-2009, 02:28 PM

Congrats dude. That's a cool milestone in your career!

***popo8*** · 09-26-2009, 02:35 PM

Congrats man.

**CamaroGirl** · 09-26-2009, 02:41 PM

wow thats really cool! congratulations!!

**CALL911** · 09-26-2009, 02:48 PM

Thanks everyone.

When I started my career in the Air Force, I was an in flight refueler on the KC-10. I always loved flying, even if my hands weren't the ones flying the plane. Even after a deployment (flying all the time), after about a day or two on the ground, I would always want to get back up in the air.

I was told I would be flying so much here at UPT that I would get sick of flying. But yet here I am on a weekend, only having 2 days since I last flew, and yet I am already wanting to fly again. I definatly have the flying bug in my genes. Once I graduate from UPT and get my pilot wings, I have tossed around the idea of getting a little plane to go flying whenever I want.