#138 “Goofy, CFI”
"From my very first day as a flight instructor, I have been consumed with inventing and trying out new teaching techniques. These big ideas don’t always work. "
"From my very first day as a flight instructor, I have been consumed with inventing and trying out new teaching techniques. These big ideas don’t always work. "
Written 8-2015 I think I first became aware of the possibilities of fireworks before I even got into the airshow business. Art Scholl used to mount fireworks on his Chipmunk…
"I guess I figured that I didn’t want to advertise my occasional skud running or have to answer the question, 'Cessna Eight Four Victor, do you see the terrain ahead?' "
Smoothosity is a condition that every good pilot knows how to exercise. He doesn’t always exercise it, though. Think of the difference between two different drivers as they negotiate the…
"To paraphrase Forest Gump, 'Good people is as good people does'. Just ask those people who are lined up outside his door."
"I’d always accepted the existence of Murphy’s Law without giving its origination much thought. But I think it was in reading the autobiography of Joe Kittinger that I may have found out the source."
"The lack of experience should not stop anyone who’s learning to fly from learning to do a bit of maintenance."
I will admit that, deep down, I have an admiration for many airline pilots. A lot of my tailwheel students are airline pilots. I admire their knowledge of their…
"Somewhere in their training, some yayhoo had told them that they should put the airplane in a landing attitude and keep it there until touchdown. I guess altitude is controlled by power. Here comes my grandfather. They are just plain WRONG!"
"Montaine and I shared something that day at the Sussex, New Jersey airshow. We were both wrong."