Just a quick post tonight! Tuesday night's are Heather's night out, when she meets up with some of the other MMS wives. (Coincidently that also means that all across Coshocton there are MMS men with their feet up watching programmes involving petrol / cars / garage experiments / police chases!!)
The week just gone has been one of settling into a routine; I have settled into my routine for getting out to work in the morning, and home again in the afternoon, Abi and Matthew are settling onto their routine of doing a bit of home-school-work in the mornings, and Heather is settling into her routine of coordinating the rest of us!!
Our furniture from Scotland is now all in it's new positions and the boxes have been unpacked - the house here is well and truly feeling like our home.
My work at the hanger is going really well. I am enjoying the hands on work, learning new skills and refreshing my memory on some things I haven't done since my days at the Nautical college in Glasgow! The last few work days have been working at the welding bench, brushing up on basic skills with the gas welding gear, finishing up today with a tube cluster (one piece of pipe, with 3 other pipes joining it at 45, 90, and 135 degrees). Unfortunately I didn't have my camera at work today, so you will just have to take my word that I passed that exercise, and have now finished my basic training! As of tomorrow morning I will be in the "Primary" phase of training, working on aeroplanes under the supervision of one of the MMS staff. The primary phase will probably last for the next 12 - 18 months, and after that I will move into "Production training" where I will be given more responsibility, whilst still learning under supervisors.
While I am in the Primary phase I will be carrying on with my study at home; tonight's job (much as I am tempted with the full reign of the tv whilst Heather is out!) is to finish reading up on the Maths chapter ready for a test later in the week. Long division took a wee while to get my head back around, but it has all clicked back into place now! That said, I have no intentions of selling my calculator just yet!!
Thanks for your interest, and if you want to see a short video of the Asas de Socorro plane I mentioned last week, doing some taxi trials and engine run yesterday, follow the link below!
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Good to read your posts of your initial training experiences Andy. Hope you managed to have a good shot at the 'math' homework last night despite the temptation of having the tv all to yourself. Interested by the label on that box of Castle nuts that you were checking in the stocktake on day 1. I guess its OK to substitute Scottish nuts for American ones though! Glad you managed to get all your flatpacks built despite the missing nuts and bolts. Arra' best. Keith
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