#132 Wrenching for Pilots
"The lack of experience should not stop anyone who’s learning to fly from learning to do a bit of maintenance."
"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!"
The words were hardly out of my mouth when I began to think about how often I quote other pilots. “Holy Cow”, I thought. “I’m just a flippin’ tape recorder!”
"That propeller which graces the front end of most of our aircraft is perhaps the greatest danger that we wield, sometimes unknowingly."
" If you’d like to be like all the other flying Whuffos, never use your brakes. They will last a lot longer. You’ll save a few bucks. And you will remain a Whuffo."
"Eventually, places which teach pilots to carefully fly closer to those extremes... won’t exist anymore either. They’ll be driven from town by a government agency and its dupes with their pitchforks and torches."
In the last few years, the Acme Flying School has continued to encourage the squelching of pilot improvement by coming up with “The Sterile Cockpit”. Naturally, this concept began with the…
"That’s one reason why all my students learn to hand-prop."
“Are you the guy who’s been putting his shadow on traffic over on the interstate?” the cop asked me.