#178 By Myself
"I’ll let you know if I ever perfect this maneuver and what I’ve decided to call it! "
"I’ll let you know if I ever perfect this maneuver and what I’ve decided to call it! "
"A stall results in a spin" is one of the most popular aviation misconceptions.
"Finally, Snivvely took a mighty swipe at one jiggling wire and his claw managed to snag Zimmo right in the lip."
"One such subject is that of snatch force and the way it affects acceleration or “G’s. How many times have I advised, “Don’t snatch”? Maybe not as many times as I’ve said, “Get the nose down”, but a lot!"
"As my pal Jerry so often has said, “If you’ve got flaps down AND are adding power, you’ve made a mistake."
"...but in my very humble opinion, the authors of those pieces of advice have their heads securely lodged in their nether regions."
"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."
"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” ".
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…
I once had an airline captain who, when asked to get right on someone’s butt on final, said, “Gee, I always wanted to do this, but can’t get away with it on the job!”