Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Logan Study Techniques

Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Logan is one of the hardest workers that I know! From the very beginning of Pilot Training he has been extremely diligent to his studying! Here are a few examples of how he does it because it never ceases to amaze me of how creative they can be!
One thing Logan started was using the card table to lay out all of the stuff he uses. I often see him have it set up in the living room or office. In the picture above is also his white board. He sketches and makes his mental lists on it. 
In the first picture above is our shower! When Logan started having to get up super early he found that he liked to take longer showers to help him wake up but then he also needed to make sure he was studying so he wrote all his lists around the shower walls. Very good multitasking! 

Above is also the posters of his cockpit. Logan sits in front of this and does what is called "chair flying". It has been very useful for when he has other guys in the flight come over to study with and originally to help him learn where everything was. 
Later on in his training, he then needed to map out his flights so we bought him a roll of large butcher paper. On them he draws out the flight and adds in all the info he needs to do at each location. 

Other examples of his studying have also led him to use chalk to draw the flight pattern on the garage floor so he could walk his flights out and mentally fly them in his head. 

I am so proud of the hard work and many hours Logan puts in to make sure he is doing the best he can! 

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Another Trip for Anna!

Thursday, August 16, 2012
So I kinda felt bad to go on another fun family trip while Logan had to stay and go to work but I did! Logan told me I could go and reminded me that he gets to fly fun planes all day so I should get to have some fun too- he is so good to me!

This trip took me to Las Vegas, and California! My cousin got married in Las Vegas so I flew there and meet my mom, dad and little sister Shelby there along with the rest of the extended family. The Wedding was great and after we had fun walking the strip and seeing several of the attractions there!
This is the casino we stayed at. 
Shelby and mom giving tips to their favorite street entertainers. 
Stratosphere
My favorite thing that I saw was Cirque Du Sole - Mystere and the aquarium at Mandalay Bay! They were awesome!
After a few days there, dad flew home and just us girls drove to California! We had so much fun going to Disneyland, swimming in the Ocean and visiting Catalina Island! Here are all the fun pictures we got!
I think it is funny to see all the pictures of us in the rides! Most of the time I have the same face on except for Splash Mountain for some reason where I look pretty surprised even though it was the Tower of Terror that freaked me out the most!
We actually split up our days at Disneyland a little bit by taking a ferry out to Catalina Island! On the island we had a ton of fun snorkeling, shopping, going on a glass bottom boat tour and
a bus tour of Avalon! It was a beautiful place!
Most of the time you just get to see fish on the boat tour but there was actually a seal out and it dove under the boat several times!