Another week has come and went by, unfortunately not much flying this week. Only one flight to Beja and the training area on Wednesday. AI0309 had all priority for their IF checks. Nevermind, we will also get priority when we have to do our checks.

On Wednesday Frank and Ruud and on Thursday Diederik and Jose passed their IF checks and because of the fine weather we were able to have an old fashion balcony party to celebrate this.

Jose was really happy to pass her IF check (duh!) next week she will do her CPL (commercial pilot license) exam.

Friday morning my roommate sebas had a sim session so he, Mart, who also had to do a session, and myself (as copilot) went to school by taxi. Our colleagues were still sleeping and waking up from last night's party. In the Afternoon there was the wings 2004 ceremony. All graduates from 2004 got their wing. It was a really big happening. My first instructor Hugo Fernandes who went to TAP last year was also there. He almost finished his coarse for the A320!

The wings ceremony gave the opportunity to make a nice group picture. This is AI0311 in front of the Piper Seneca V. Leon is missing because he was ill and stayed home and Fabian...yeah where did he go?
(on the frontpage you can view a picture of all Dutch students in Evora at this moment)

This picture was taken yesterday, January 22...still winter in Portugal, not bad eh!

I'm not scheduled to fly on Monday but I hope I will be for the rest of the week. Maybe we will start with night flying :-)

Stayed tuned more to come next week!

Later,
Bas