MONTH 4: More ground drills. Month 4 of weyrling training was just practising the ground drills that the weyrlings have already learned until they're *absolutely* perfect. And that's it. Month 5 is preparation for flights, but no actual flying... yet. All in all, it's rather boring but necessary, and if your weyrlings miss anything here, the Weyrlingmaster and his assistants won't let them fly next month, so you don't really want to let that happen.

*Sevenday 13: The weyrling pairs are divided equally into two groups to practice. Newer, and more complex drills are learned.

*Sevenday 14: The whole weyrling class practices drills in one group. This practice and learning of new drills will continue in addition to other lessons until all drills are perfected.

*Sevenday 15: Practice the drills already learned.

*Sevenday 16: Practice, practice, and more practice.

MONTH 5: Classes preparing for first flights: making riding straps, wing strain, and air currents. Care and repair of riding straps: Recognizing stretched, rotten, and cracked leather, when and how to patch and when to scrap the straps and make all new ones.

*Sevenday 17: Basic lessons on air currents and how they affect flight.

*Sevenday 18: Continued lessons on air currents.

*Sevenday 19: A dragonhealer comes in to talk to the class about dragon health concerning wingstrain, as well as other injuries to wings. All weyrlings learn to recognise the symptoms, and how to deal with it.

*Sevenday 20: Instruction on riding straps: how to make and maintain them. Weyrlings make their first set of riding straps.

MONTH 6: First flights and flying practice.

*Sevenday 21: First flights!! Weyrlings are flown up to a small ledge separately from their dragons, and then the pair glides down. Each day, the height of the ledges goes up, so the dragons can practice their landing skills.

*Sevenday 22: Taking off from the ground.

*Sevenday 23: Flight practice around the Weyr to get used to using the wing muscles.

*Sevenday 24: Further practice. And dragonhealers check each dragon pair for signs of strain in muscles and the like.

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