#176 Zimmo and Snivvely
"Finally, Snivvely took a mighty swipe at one jiggling wire and his claw managed to snag Zimmo right in the lip."
#175 Pescadero
"The HH52 Helicopter we flew was a taildragger… maybe the handwriting was on the wall for me!"
#173 “Yer scarin’ me, Man!”
"As my pal Jerry so often has said, “If you’ve got flaps down AND are adding power, you’ve made a mistake."
#172 The Dreaded Bounce
"Cue the villagers with their pitchforks and torches because I think that solution sucks."
#171 “Why does everyone make it so damned complicated?”
"...but in my very humble opinion, the authors of those pieces of advice have their heads securely lodged in their nether regions."
#170 Bump on a Log
"Sometimes the best thing a CFI can do is nothing. Sometimes he has to just sit there and let the student practice or to simply see how he performs a particular action without any input from the instructor."
#169 Creeping Pitch
"...as a teacher of flying, I have seen something that terrifies the crap out of me and which threatens the whole of aviation, especially that of all Acme trained flyers. Hah! I’ll bet I have your attention NOW!"
#169 “Reft Downwind”
"Many of our locals fail to consider what these Chinese students are up against. They are in a foreign country, learning a new skill and at the same time being forced to communicate in a foreign language and fly like “Acme” ".
#168 Chock Travels
I’d pulled the little Cessna 140 up to the self-serve fuel pumps at the Prineville, Oregon, airport. I don’t have a parking brake, so I snatched a set of chocks…
#167 “Don’t Rip Off the Students”
"He was the guy who invented the “ratcheting elevator”, he was the guy who first questioned the practice of teaching to “minimum standards”, but more importantly, he was the guy who made me realize how important it is not to rip off the students."
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