What's the training this time, you might ask? This is the major pre field training called technical standardization. That means they are bringing me up to speed on the way MAF operates overseas, both in flight and maintenance. We will begin with ground school. Then we will move into working and practicing in the maintenance shop. Lastly we will do the flight training, culminating in a week of practicing on back country airstrips in the mountains of Idaho. I am very excited to get back into "aviation mode"!
Here's a batch of recent pictures, including the latest "belly shot," the obligatory cute pics of Elise and her antics, and a few shots of my time out in Spokane a few weeks back training at the Spokane Turbine Center.
Elise was showing off her new moves the other night.
She was in the party mood because we were celebrating the birthday of Mads, our foreign exchange student from Denmark.
We would like to share a quick "timeline" for friends and family who would like to know. It's getting simpler from here on out. We will be out in Idaho training with MAF and staying until the birth of Baby Brother, then hopefully in the first or second week of May returning here to Missouri until we head to language school in Indonesia. If our support is at 100 percent and our visas have gone through, we hope to depart in July!
