Dead foot, dead engine

On August 23rd, 2020, I officially became a commercial multi-engine instrument rated pilot. Since starting at UND on August 18th, 2018, this is the license I had slowly been working towards. UND formats their flight training a little different than most, but the benefits are worth the long wait. At UND, we do our private, instrument, commercial, then multi-engine training. Students don't receive their instrument and commercial rating until they do their multi-engine check ride. We do our check ride in the Piper Seminole, and this is the most important check ride to date for a UND student. Studying for this is so stressful, but the feeling of finishing it is worth all of the stress. With COVID-19, my flight training got a little off course. I was on track to do my check ride in May, but school shut down in March. I had to come back in July and pick up where I left off (with a lot of review flights in between). Going home as a private pilot in March after putting hundreds of hours in the aircraft at UND was a terrifying feeling, especially since none of us knew when UND would open back up. I was so worried that the school would not open back up for years, and I would have to restart my training somewhere else. UND aerospace worked hard to put procedures in place, and they were able to open back up. I got to finish my training, and we've had no major breakouts of COVID-19 in aerospace so far.