WIC BFM-1/2 Complete

Week two of WIC finished today with 10 hours of classroom academics starting at 0700...after finishing a debrief at 1200 am the night prior. It was a good week because I passed my BFM-1 & BFM-2 flights! All the credit goes to God. It's always a battle between the stress and anxiety of an upgrade sortie and resting in the fact that God has lead me to Weapons School; it will work out as planned in the end.  The jets in the picture below are the same configuration we're currently flying...I actually flew 729 on Thursday.  The WA on the tail is the Nellis AFB designator.

BFM-1 was our local area orientation (LAO) flight, giving us a chance to see the local flying area and become familiar with Nellis flying operations.  It was a gradesheet flight (still potential to not pass), but is typically a pretty low threat flight...all 10 of us passed.  BFM-2 was our first flight leading and our first chance to show the weapons instructor course (WIC) instructors a "good act."  First impressions go a long way, and getting off to a good start is the goal.  Thankfully I had a good brief / flight /debrief and I was able to perform well enough to pass.  Four out of 10 in the class passed BFM-2.

Next week we're all flying Mon-Thurs with a 10 hour academics day on Friday. This will be a standard weekly schedule for us, so a lot to do in 5.5 months at WIC.  Some of us are going to catch dinner and a movie tonight and take tomorrow off, then it's prep time on Sunday afternoon for more BFM!