#68 “Lost, Huh”
" I took off and within a few minutes I couldn’t find the airport! What a mess I’d gotten myself into! With only “airshow fuel” onboard, I couldn’t stay aloft for long."
" I took off and within a few minutes I couldn’t find the airport! What a mess I’d gotten myself into! With only “airshow fuel” onboard, I couldn’t stay aloft for long."
" If you totally ignore the instrumentation, you can perform a perfectly acceptable steep turn with absolutely no instrument reference."
The somewhat hardnosed, no-nonsense Goofy who normally perches on my left shoulder says, “Hey, if they’re scared to do a spin while you’re sittin’ right there to protect them, tuh Hell with ‘em. Let ‘em find another flight instructor; preferably a Pansy!”
"There is, arguably, no flight experience that will make you a better stick and rudder pilot than glider time."
"One of the geezers on the bench perked up as we rolled to a stop in front of the gas pump. He slowly raised up off the bench and limped slowly over to the trailer, his gimpy leg causing him to lurch a bit like Walter Brennan."
“Yup, I think it’s time,” I said as I reached over the side of the wicker basket and brought my parachute aboard. It didn’t take more than about a millisecond for Margaret to realize what was going on.
"... feel the airspeed, feel the coordination of your turns with your rear end, keep your feet moving and your eyes outside the cockpit..."
"You can go ahead and obey the rule of always landing straight ahead in the boulder field if you want, but I’ll continue to teach my students to constantly analyze their options on every takeoff..."
"I told my student that I had a special treat for her and we launched for the private strip."
" Why is it so difficult for many pilots to keep it straight on takeoff and why do they often tend to have more trouble after the airplane has accelerated to nearly flying speed? "