It's official

No multi-engine rating for me before school starts up again. This is the fourth flight to be canceled because the Duchess is succeeding in an ongoing attempt to disintegrate into Duchess parts. I guess I'll be working on this on weekends and maybe, just maybe, I'll get it during the semester.

This next semester will be fun, I think.

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.