YEAH!!!! I'm a PILOT again!!!

This is a really really long story but with the great news of it all coming to an end I decided that it needed to be told... So once upon a time Kerby went to flight school in Cedar City at National Pilot Academy (hereafter called NPA), everything was great and things couldn't have been better. He started in March of 2007 and soon became a Private Pilot in April 2007 and then received his Instrument Rating in June 2007. After which he began a "time building phase" of school where he spent everyday just gaining experience. When the time came that "time building" was over and Commercial training was to begin, that is where our story really begins. Kerby was scheduled to start his Commercial training somewhere around October 2007, the problem started out being that NPA only had one Commercial rated plane and there was in fact six or so other students in line in front of Kerby waiting to receive their training as well. So Kerby began to wait, and wait, and wait...

During this waiting the one plane had crashed in the hands of fellow students several times and we were running out of money and had just gotten married. So with the annoying call of bills needing to be paid, Kerby returned to work at Parts Plus. He decided to take a leave of absence from school until I was finished with school in March 2008 when I could officially provide for our new small family.

When March 2008 finally came Kerby was ready more than ever to begin school again, he realized one major problem; HE NEVER RECEIVED HIS LICENSES!!!!! Back in March 2007 when he took his tests his instructor told him that the FAA takes a really long time to process paperwork and it wasn't unusual for your license to take 6 months to reach you. Well in the mists of all that was happening we both completely forgot since he was flying under a temporary license. Well now that it had expired, Kerby called the FAA and was informed that there was an even bigger problem; the designated FAA examiner (Jonathan Ashment a.k.a. THE DEVIL) had in fact filed his paperwork wrong. He was recognized as a pilot but still in the student status because the problem had not yet been resolved. Kerby then contacted the examiner only to find out that he had been fired as an examiner and been allegedly "robbed" and there was no longer any paperwork.

So for 6 long months filled with complete and total frustration/despair/hatred/helplessness we called this examiner to beg and plead with him to file new paperwork. But when you are dealing with the biggest douche in the universe, you get nowhere. During this 6 months of nothing.... Kerby had found a new flight school called G&B Flight Academy here in St. George, we were very excited because things at NPA had become rather bad since Kerby left. (Mind you this whole time NPA hadn't helped at all with the license problem) This new school was professional and outstanding compared to what we had dealt with at NPA. We contacted G&B and told them our situation, within a matter of one week we had gotten everything ready for him to switch from the old to the new but still had not solved the license problem; mind you we had contacted every person imaginable to try and fix this problem.... So we thought....

Monday September 8 rolls around and we get a phone call from G&B, they tell us to come into the school and they'll help us figure out this whole fiasco. When we arrive at G&B I am expecting an older male, around 30 or 40, to be the one to help us figure out this major problem we've been having. But what we got was a 25ish guy that was just one of the random instructors there. I thought, Oh this is a waste of time, this guy is never going to figure this out. He's not going to be able to do anything that we haven't already done.

Within a matter of 45 minutes, OUR PROBLEM WAS SOLVED!!!!!! He fixed it. I don't know what he did, I don't know how he did it but he fixed it. Low and behold there was someone else that we hadn't been talking to that got around the old examiner and resolved the situation. Words do not describe how happy I am!! Kerby is now going to start flying again this week. After almost over a year he will be flying again!! Don't worry he'll be with an instructor so he'll be able to remember how to do it. (I'm a little worried) But he's back in school!!!

Now within 3 months Kerby will be done with all his training and will be able to make some money for all this hard work and stress. Then hopefully soon we will be able to move out of Diamond Valley and finally get a place in St. George!! Who knows?? All I know is that now life can move on and there is no more stress about a stupid piece of paper :)