Setbacks

It's been nearly five months and I am no closer to getting this multi-engine commercial rating. Having a semester off from it certainly did not help for memory, so that has meant re-studying for things that I knew in August. And now, my past three flights have been canceled thanks to the airplane's continued endeavor to self-destruct (a bad magneto, twice, on the right engine, and today the over-center locking brace on the right main gear snapping in half). They say that plane is in better shape than most Duchesses in service. God help all us multi-engine students.

So my hope is for a checkride two weeks from yesterday (since earlier doesn't look like a possibility). Trying to earn a multi-engine commercial rating is starting to get depressing.