I realize we've been draggin on doing posts. We have had a lot going on. The big news is that God provided a job for me right here in Grand Rapids. I have been looking for a job as a flight instructor to build flying experience before applying with Mission Aviation Fellowship. I had applied to every school I could find in Kansas City and in Phoenix. We really wanted to be closer to family while I worked as a flight instructor. About a month ago we set out to Kansas City (when Heather began to feel comfortable traveling with Elise) and I visited every school in the area personally. It seemed to be going so well making contacts in person that I decided to go out to Phoenix for a week and do the same thing while Heather stayed with her family in Kansas City. I visited just about every single school in phoenix (over twenty of them). After all that, it was clear that nobody was hiring because of the economy. I got a phone call from the one place in Grand Rapids I applied to (the only school I know of here besides S.M.A.T. where I did my training), and they interviewed me and hired me. It is a very nice company called Paramount Aviation and they hired me as a flight instructor to replace one who is leaving. The major blessings is that it is enough pay for us to live off of (which is actually hard to find at times in aviation) and it will be very good experience as I train up private pilots! And not to mention I get to fly very new and modern aircraft, called "Diamond" aircraft. I'll put a picture of a DA20 below (the kind I will be flying mainly:
So we are going to be around Grand Rapids a little longer than we thought. We are partly sad because we thought we were going to get to live near family for a little while. At the same time though we are thankful to get to stay here in Grand Rapids a little longer around the people we have gotten to know and to get to enjoy the awesome Michigan summer after enduring that long winter!!
Heather made a slideshow of some recent pictures of Elise and I will put them below.
