McGuire Madness: RTF Here I Come

I just finished ITR (Introduction to Terminal Radar) today we start RTF tomorrow. The academic (book material) in ITR really wasn't all that tough and they prep'd you really well for the tests so I got 100% on both block tests and the final. The difficult portion of ITR came with Radar training. Its high paced, with very strict rules. It is very similar to playing a video game without a controller, instead of the controller you are hooked up to a headset and you have to tell someone else every single move they have to make. Although you do have somewhat of a controller, but its not used for direction its only used to assign identification to aircraft that did not provide one to a Flight Service Station before beginning there flight, or for automated handoffs to other controllers. It gets really intense with some serious phraseology. All through ITR and through the first 10 days of RTF we are the controllers and the pilots, so we work in teams of two taking turns either controlling the planes as an ATC or being the ghost pilot for the controller. Both are pretty fun, but after 10 more days we will then switch to working in teams of 2, both as controllers one controls the north sector of the radar and one controls the south, very similar to the way its done at a real facility. Only difference is every one of us has our own personal instructor who sits beside us and monitors every move we make. Instead of piloting for each other, the FAA actually highers ghost pilots or RPO's who are located elsewhere in the facility, and they take care of all the pilot controls for us. Below are some pictures of airspace and all the material we've covered thus far.