Our 1st Flight

It's official..........Josh is a pilot.  

On April 16th he went in for his final check ride.  We expected it to be a couple hours for the exam and test flight.  When 4 hours had passed I started to wonder.  I was sure he was going to pass, I just didn't think it would take so long.  I finally got the call that he passed and then the explanation that the instructor had to take a few breaks and attend to other business inbetween the exam and the flight test, thus dragging the test.  So that was a sigh of relief that it wasn't Josh that needed the extra time.  Passing was a stress off of  Josh's shoulders (he had been stressing for a couple weeks and the test kept getting pushed back due to weather and the instructors availability.

Damon was pretty proud of dad and kept announcing that his dad, "has a official pilots license!"

 

On Saturday April 18th, I got to take my first flight with Josh.  The kids were happy to stay with Grandma & Grandpa for a couple hours while we flew to Tillamook.  

It wasn't a "just for fun" flight either.  Josh was hired to fly a guy and his Prom date over for their day of fun prior to Prom.  (I was pretty impressed.  I got proposed to in a helicopter and I thought that was big deal.  This high schooler was just taking his Prom date on a flight to the coast to ride quads and play before the Prom).  Some Prom date huh!  Anyway......the weather was perfect and the flight was quick and smooth.  I look forward to taking many more flights with my husband.....the pilot.