This is going to be a short post where I vent at the darn COVID virus. As I had talked about in my previous post, I had completed most of my IFR training requirement and the only thing pending was 50 hour cross country time as PIC and long IFR cross country. Since the pandemic hit, my training has virtually come to a standstill. I was only spending time on my PIC cross country time because I was being extra careful and flying alone. With the new born and unknowns related to COVID, I did not/do not want to take any risks. I haven’t flown with my instructor for almost a year now and my IFR training is getting rusty. In addition, my aviation school has a policy requiring private pilots fly with a CFI once a year for an annual before they can rent planes. In Jan of this year that annual expired for me 😦 meaning I can no longer rent a plane without flying with a CFI first. Right now, I am very hesitant in doing so given the mutating, and ever more contagious, strains of the virus. I’m hoping that we get vaccines soon and things get better for me to start flying again. If not, I’m hoping for my son to be a bit older (at least a year) before I can brave wearing an N95 mask to share a cockpit with my CFI.
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