What Now?

I've been thinking, if I don't want become a cadet lieutenant, what do I become? I've been wanting to join Youth Flying Club for a long time, and I think that it would be the only way forward. This is what I meant when I said 'aim higher' in the last post.

The only hurdles to overcome now are, convincing my teacher to let me off being a cadet lieutenant - (They'll try everything to keep me in), convince my parents that we won't fly until we've done ground school, and that it is mostly safe, and increase my mugging skills tenfold so that I can cope with next year.

I suppose the thing I should pray for now is concentration. So required of students, and so required of pilots. The strength to finish multiple essays, reports and worksheets in a row. The skill to watch the skies for incoming aircraft, watch the horizon to maintain your heading, and simultaneously adjusting the control column and yaw pedals, while checking a dozen different '-meters' in front of you.

But if I don't make it, I don't know what I'd do. Staying on in a uniformed group would not be a wise choice, given the dissatisfactory nature of the whole thing. Maybe BB Primers wouldn't be so bad...