Morning flight

This morning I had the first flight of the day.

- At 03.15u wake up call screams me awake.
Than a quick shower and a little breakfast to catch our schoolvan at 04.00u.
Things to do before the instructor arrives:

• Prepare a weather briefing
  
• Check the squawkbook ( = the maintenance logbook)
• Make your mass & balance for the flight
• Ask the keys to Mike and do the preflight checks at your aircraft (check the fuel, airframe, oil level, tires, all the lights,...)

When the instructor arrives I brief him about the weather, he explains the goal of the mission and what he expects from me and off we go.

You may think it's crazy to get up so early but it is really worth it.
You see the sun rising above the mountains, the air is sooo smooth with no bumps at all and a temperature of 30° at 5.30u is nice.
The airspace was very busy this morning but this is good to learn to handle the radio.
At 0600u I was schooting patterns together with 5 other aircraft for one runway and between that there were even take-offs. This is something you will never see in Belgium.

Still 3 missions to go before my solo check, if everything goes well I'll be flying solo next Friday!

Some pic's:

1. sunrise
2. dispatch
3. pre-flighting my airaft at 05.00u