Figure It Out

Heheh I think I’m getting better at these catchy blog titles.

So, same old back to school right? I was excited initially and had an awesome 1st week, but got kind of panicky around Thursday near the end of the week because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM DOING.

I mean it, I thought I was gonna get my Bachelors & now that that plan never took off (hehe) ✈️ I have to resort to plan B but my plan B is just not as neat as my plan A.

Real talk: it’s ok to not have it all figured out.

These are the words I read on another blog this week, and while very sweet and smelling like syrup and good butterflies, they’re not really reassuring. Because there’s still time passing by and money being “wasted” if I’m just bumbling around school with no idea what I’m doing academically!

Flying, I know what I’m doing. Kinda. I want to get my IFR! YouTube is working out well too, I’m learning to edit better and better and I’m almost at 1K subs! Which means I can be a youtube partner then. 💣🤠🎂

But school, school is weird. No advisors are very helpful when I tell them my future plans “I want to own my own business, fly, speak & teach & help & inspire people. And I want to help in medical flights, and disaster aid, and I have lots of ideas for inventions and things too. Oh & I love travel and being outside (who doesn’t amiright?) but yeah so anyways do u think there’s a degree for all this?”

Every Advisor I've Ever Met: *slightly amused but also scared* "uhhhh, I'm going to say not that I know of."

Nope. There’s absolutely, 2000% no degree or “clear cut” path for all this. But at the end of the day, I never wanted a predictable life.

(And no flying this week, again, cos weather plus I mainly just did chores and homework!)

BUT AS A SIDE NOTE: one reason I've realized I don't just go flying everyday (other than cost) is because I REALLY like to have everything sorted out for a flight.

Globalair has a perfect resource for this:

https://www.globalair.com/airport/

A part of this is nerves of being a new pilot and having to build my confidence, but another part is rational fear because flying is still very new to me! I love that the remedy to this is is such a sweet simple solution: go fly more. I think I shall 🤠

But unlike the beginning of this post (where I said it's ok to not have everything figured out in life or academic stuff) I'm 100% going to say that for your future flights, you should have things figured out as best you can. KNOW the weather, KNOW the comm frequencies for your flight plan, KNOW your fuel quantity.... not just by your electrical system but actually climb up on the plane and take a look so you can verify with your eyeballs. Knowing is power, not knowing is where fear comes from. So it can be harder to know it all when it comes to weather, we're all always guessing at times at mother nature! But we can try. And as icing season approaches, your briefing call on 1800WXBrief has never been more important(:

* when the Pacific Northwest actually has a mild fall, and you can fly on the weekend *: