So, I got a 94% on my final.

I AM SO PISSED! I missed EASY questions. I should have gotten a 98% and tied for highest score.

On the first day, we took a pre-test, which was essentially the final. I got a 43% on the pretest. So, I increased my score by 51%. Still - I should have done better! I'm not gonna let that happen again. The slam dunks are gonna be slammed!

Now it's on to level two. Level one was just to introduce us all to aviation and air space.

If anyone is curious, here are some questions that are similar (but not exact) from the level one final:

An aircraft at sea level experiences temperatures of 15 degrees celcius. The aircraft increases it's altitude 3,000 feet, and the temperature is 21 degrees celcius. This is known as:

A. Lapse Rate
B. Inversion
C. Dew Point
D. Global Warming

The answer is inversion. Normally, as you increase your altitude, the temperature decreases. The standard lapse rate is -2 degrees celcius per 1000 feet, but, if you INCREASE temperatures as you increase altitudes (warm air on top of cold air), it's temperature inversion. I missed this one because I immediately thought "lapse rate". Agggggg!

In the following wind description 32040G25kts, which direction is the wind blowing to?

A. The northwest
B. The southwest
C. The northeast
D. The southeast

The answer is D, the southeast.

There are a few things you need to know just to be able to read the weather.
32025G40kts means, the wind is blowing FROM true heading 320 at 25 knots per hour, with winds gusting up to 40 knots. If 360 degrees is directly north, 90 degrees directly east, 180 degrees directly south, and 270 degrees directly west, then 320 falls between west, and north on a compass. You actually read this to pilots as, "Wind three two zero at two five, gusts four zero." Yes, you must say it like that, exactly, each time. So, knowing that wind is blowing FROM, 320, it's blowing TO 140, or, the southeast. I missed this one to, because, usually, you first look at where the wind is blowing FROM. On the news, when the weatherman says an "easterly wind" he means the wind is blowing FROM the east. So, I didn't read the question right and chose Northwest, the direction the wind is blowing FROM. DANG IT!!!!!!!

I don't know if any of you out there care about the information. It's scary to me that I understand it. Jeff said he was interested in some of the jargon we are learning. I'm slowly starting to get the "radio speak". "Depart Albuquerque cleared to Phoenix turn right heading two seven zero via Victor seventeen, climb and maintain one four thousand" means when you take off from ABQ, take a right and climb the aircraft to 14,000 feet. What?

Anyway, I've got to go. On to the next challenge!!!!!