We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight. - Richard Bach, A Gift of Wings.

heh. today was my last flight as a trainee pilot at SYFC..It was rather bittersweet. Lightning warning ended at around 1700hrs, and hence after we taxiied out and took off. A rather amusing radio call was heard while taxiing, by some guy on his first flight.

"Seletar ground, Skylark Nine-Nee(i guess he misread niner) four"

and another by the same person, reading back ATC instructions..

"Skylark 94, whiskey 1, runway 21, Q...Q..." and it trailed off.

it was rather hilarious. nevermind.

yeah. flight was rather good, and the after rain scenery was rather breathtaking. The south and west of singapore were still rather rainy, whereas the north and east had this...foggy post-rain look to it. Up north, only the tops of malaysian buildings in Johore could be seen, but it was mostly covered in fog too...the silhouettes looked really cool and fantasy-ish...if God had a job, he'd probably had been an artist =) (and no, its not because of "our Father, which art in heaven"). Was taxiing back to the syfc aircraft dispersal, with the orange glow of the sunset sky visible above the syfc building, when it hit me.

Hit me that it was my last time flying as a trainee at SYFC. For the first time, I realised that this wonderful and memorable chapter of my life was quickly coming to a close. All the days of having to miss lessons for flights, coming down every saturday for groundschool, and all the work put in and the really enjoyable flights...will soon just be a happy memory. Ironic isn't it, when you're given your wings, then you can't fly anymore (to quote Haoyi "kk you win game, let others plae plx")...well for the time being at least. Until the Air Force decides to fly me hopefully =)

Oh well. Final Handling Test this tuesday. Hopefully everything would go smoothly as it has been...and prayers would definitely be appreciated =)

Thank You Lord, for this gift of wings.
Dual Hours: 49.2h
Solo Hours: 10.8h

There's just too much that time cannot erase =)