#131 “You didn’t tell me I had to land this thing!”
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…
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…
"...Odds are that you already have an excess of speed, so use that instead of power in order to control the bounce and turn it into another touchdown without the landing-lengthening use of power that they taught you at Acme (and if you ever wondered why I place so much importance on the dead-stick landing… think about it)."
"In a Tailwheeler’s Journal article called “Late Night Meetings”, I accused all of my students of attending such candlelit meetings in a darkened hangar late at night. Their purpose, I claimed, was to conspire against me and do all the things that students routinely do to drive their flight instructors nuts."
" The Rajneeshees shook their fists at us and we waggled a middle finger at them. It was true communication."
"So I try to load up my students when they are the busiest. Shades of Earnest Gann’s crusty Captain tossing lighted matches in his lap while he’s attempting to fly an instrument approach to minimums in a thunderstorm."
"We train ourselves every time we take to the air."
Some of my expressions get used a lot. They also prove to be fodder for good-natured ribbing on the part of my friends and students. As is often the case,…
" The Migs had been hurriedly painted with Ukrainian colors and the trident-looking symbol of Ukraine. It may have looked like it was painted with a broom but, by gawd, it wasn't Soviet anymore!"
"As an added complication, I felt it might be a good idea not to crash into the camera car, which was racing alongside me down the runway."
"We had a fine time spinning this fine little bird then logging another half hour to get high enough to do it again. "