To be on time for a 7:30 AM launch is a lot of work. We are allowed to get our airplane 30 minutes prior to launch, 7:00 AM, factor in 20 - 30 minutes for preflight planning and preflight brief with the student, and a 20 minute drive to the airport that has me dragging myself out of bed at 5:50 AM. With the usual snooze button routine I'm usually out of bed around 6am. Check the weather, looks alright, kind of marginal but should be good enough for a local closed traffic flight. Plus it will be a good experience for a student to see what MVFR is really like.
I get to the airport and start looking for my student at dispatch. Not there. Flight planning
room? nope. Office? nope. Okay, time to sit down and wait for my student to show up. Finally the student shows up with only 10 minutes till we can get the plane. Alright, no big deal we do our planning and get out to the aircraft 20 minutes late, still no big deal. Preflight and get the airplane tugged out to the ramp and it is now almost 7:50 am. We are doing fine, still learning the checklists and flow patterns causes the engine start to take a little bit longer but it starts just fine and we throw on the radio master and pull up ATIS, "2 vis, 2,500 vis". Not good, the field just went IFR, time to work on our engine shutdown checklist.Head back into dispatch and weather the flight, do a quick post-brief to talk about showing up with enough time to get a WX brief, weight and balance, takeoff and landing distance, and do a pre-flight brief. After a quick talk about our next scheduled flight the student takes off and I'm left here wondering what I'm going to do, my next flight is already being auto-weathered and I have nothing to do until 3 pm. Hurry up and wait....
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