The "A" coming, finally...

[mdrejhon 8]

Okay, I passed the exam this weekend.

Getting the "A" license finally. Maybe next week, I'll have to find out. Just mainly paperwork now, I think. May have to be reviewed on EP's before being signed off.

Can't wait. Could have chosen to take the exam earlier, but decided to wait until now, when I felt I studied well enough and my RW skills was up to snuff.

Next, is the "B". (If, I do, indeed, get the "A" next weekend). Then I'll be able to do my Florida trip!

[Elisha 1]

Wow, you procrastinated almost as long as me (I just got stamped and faxed it in last week)! I know three others who waited significantly longer though.

[Diversgodown 0]

Nice!!! congrats in advance. OK ? I am going up to SDC on Fri this week and staying for 10 days so I can get my A license. I asked manifest about a written exam that I had to take and she said there was no written exam to get my A license. Is she full of S*it because from what you just wrote there is!!!

***Glory Favors the Bold***

[mailin 0]

There is no exam for the A license in the US now.

mdrejhon is not from the US.



Jen

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[Diversgodown 0]

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There is no exam for the A license in the US now.

mdrejhon is not from the US.


Jen

Well that will work for me I hate tests Thanks for the info

***Glory Favors the Bold***

[mdrejhon 8]

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Wow, you procrastinated almost as long as me (I just got stamped and faxed it in last week)! I know three others who waited significantly longer though.

Not really. I needed to become a good enough of a bellyflyer to meet the "A", and my coaching was pretty much "now and then" so it was hard to pratice 2-ways often enough.

Sure, I could have forked $1500 for a bona-fide "RW course", but I spent that on jump tickets instead. ... Plus a few "pay their slot" offers.

Did 3-ways on my last visit. I finally praticed sideslides in 3 consecutive jumps. Something important when I eventually fly my slot around a medium size formation.

And had the opportunity to make a few zero-wind standups under my Sabre 170. Yay! (Winds are easy, but it was the pesky zero winders...) I had gotten this rig at jump #59 and my landing problems were with low and zero winders since the 170 likes to turf surf a hell lot more. "Sitting in" in Scott Miller's course did help too. (He visited our dropzone, but it was full so I only paid the sit-in fee). Considering seeing him this October in Deland.