And looking for something I can do after a 12-hour day between tie-ins on the right-of-way; prefer online, but I can hit a night class in Tulsa if it helps me pass June requals and tighten up on repair criteria and porosity callouts. Anyone done a short course (8–12 hours) that carries over to real field decisions, not just slides?
And what helped me was 15‑minute, timed defect callouts on high‑res weld photos, then walking the API 1104 tables with a pit gauge — “measure first, then decide”; for quick reps, the PHMSA TQ gallery works: https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/training/. Would you be up for that between tie‑ins — if you can spare a night, the AWS Tulsa section code reviews add the hands‑on piece the slides miss.
@daniel_flores07 is on the right track — add a 15‑minute nightly “RT worksheet” rep: grab one high‑res weld, scale it on‑screen with a ruler, write your accept/reject with the exact API 1104 clause, then check yourself so repair criteria and porosity calls are tight before June requals. If you can squeeze one night in Tulsa, ask TWS or Tulsa Tech to let you jump into an NDT lab for an hour with a pit gauge — online is fine, but that borderline porosity second‑guessing drives me nuts and hands‑on kills it fast.
After a 12‑hour ROW day, — I’d do 10‑minute table sprints: grab one indication image, measure with a pit gauge or on‑screen scale, then write the exact clause and accept/reject with a one‑line reason; no guessing, “cite the line.” Pair that with a pocket crib sheet you make from the porosity and repair limits (decimals + quick examples) and run it nightly until June requals; this carried straight into my field calls. For practice images, the NDE Resource Center has decent RT examples: https://www.nde-ed.org — want me to DM a simple crib template?