In Love with the Facility

Friday, Jan. 6, 10 a.m.:  As I arrived in San Marcos, Texas on Jan. 3, Roger Sharp was very kind to take Vaughn college students out to dinner. On Wednesday,  we got down to business,  at 8 a.m. We began by discussing the program stages that we will complete before we move on. The people here at Skyport are friendly, funny and serious about getting the work done. They have taken care of us, as if we were their children, with lots of love and respect and have fed us a great lunch and dinner every day since our arrival. I feel I am in a nice and relaxed environment in which I can get work done. The facility is amazing. I love it—my favorite part is the pilot lounge. I love being in there on the nice leather recliners, cable, WiFi flat-screen HDTV. I cannot complain. Today,  I will be going up to perform the first stage of my simulator training in the actual Skyhawk 172 aircraft. 

—Erika Barcenes