I am the proud new owner of a Third Class Medical Certificate. Since I haven’t been flying for quite a while, I had let mine lapse. The nice Fall weather and the fact that I live about 3 miles from Ithaca’s airport which has a well regarded flying club has made me antsy to get current again. The real trick now will be finding time to adequately refresh my skills while I’m so busy with business school. Worst case is that I’ll have to concentrate my flying over my winter break in December.

The exam itself went fine. I do notice that now that I am well into my 30’s, the eye exams are a little harder than they used to be. I’m still at 20/20, but just barely, at least close up. The color-blindness tests are always fun. I rush right through them and have done enough of them to know not to get nervous when I don’t see a number as they through a few of those in just to mess with you.

So, with the medical in hand, hopefully I can scrape together some time over the next few months to get concurrent again and be able to enjoy flying in a different part of the world. All of my flights to date have been within the state of Wisconsin, so I’m eager to seek out new $100 hamburgers in central New York