Happy Heliween Wooo

Things you can do for Halloween that involve helicopters:

Bake heli-cookies for all of your visitors

After that you should make a heli-costume so that you, too, can have delectable treats, such as this one:

 

If you get bored waiting for it to get dark, you could actually make a helicopter into a pumpkin. Just be sure to be home before midnight!

Wait, if you're already a pumpkin, what happens after midnight? Do you get vaporized like this guy?

Or if you are too busy finding your glass slipper, maybe you lost it in the corn maze.. so just hop in the heli and look for it! 

 

 Or, I guess, you could just make a pumpkin with a heli on it. But that's just boring, right??

 

The Time Has Come..

So my dear friends, the time has come for my check ride. It is literally right around the corner! Rule of thumb for our school: If you pass your stage 3 test (the test with the main instructor at your school) then your check ride will be just as good, if not better. I am not very nervous at this point, just more looking to learn something from a pilot with thousands of hours in many aircraft.

I wanted to mention something for my future: I don't currently have the funding to continue my education at this point. I will do whatever it takes to finish my training, but at this point my check ride will be the last flight I take until I figure something out.
I will have to borrow money from my fiance in order to pay for my check ride, what a saint he is. 

When it comes to loans, I have them deferred until I get my bachelors degree as long as I am taking classes as a full time student. Once I stop flying, that is no longer the case and I will have to sort things out another way.
Because of my past (and we all know how divorces go) my credit is no longer the gleaming picture it once was to no fault of my own. I will be unable to get a loan without a co-signer (none available to me) until that is fixed and currently it is out of my hands legally. Trust me, if I could have done something about it by now, I would have. So that whole option is out of the question.

My next option is scholarships, grants, and federal aid. The past two years I have been unable to receive federal aid and do not qualify for any grants and I have no idea why. I can get small loans through my college which only help to pay my tuition each semester and is not enough for flight school.
After I receive my license my next goal will be to find and apply for any scholarship that I am eligible for.

The options after that are extremely limited. I've heard of people who have paid for their education (although this is somewhat about 25 years ago) strictly with cash, working two full time jobs to get the money needed for EACH flight. If that is what it takes, that's what I'll do.

Meanwhile, I plan on attempting to self-educate myself about the other certificates I want to get whenever possible, hopefully somewhat minimizing the amount of education I will have to pay for.

If anyone has any other ideas that could help students pay for education, I am begging you to let me know!
Thanks guys, I'll let you know how the check ride goes.

P.S. I plan on editing a video as soon as I have enough footage to edit :)