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Re: Update on the job from hell
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.36.236
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 19:51:09
In Reply To: Update on the job from hell posted by Brunnen-G on Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 23:13:06:

Also, before this test flight, one of the flying instructors who teaches at the same airfield where we're based came in, requesting a couple of morons to go along as passengers on an hour's flight with one of his students. (They were doing a thing where the student had to fly a fully loaded plane; weight differences make it respond differently.) So I went along. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! I learned this: never go flying with somebody who is in the process of learning to fly a plane. Aaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaah! [pauses to unclench white knuckled grip on edge of desk just at the memory] I almost got airsick for the first time ever. And I also added this phrase to the list of Things You Don't Want To Hear From A Flying Instructor:
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> "HOLY *%&$!! Give me the controls NOW!"
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> Also, you would be AMAZED how hard and how high a Cessna 172 can bounce on landing. Never again. Woo.
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> Brunnen-"if anything develops, you'll all be among the first to know"G

Flying, they say, is long hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Riding a motor scooter is long moments of bliss intertupted by backflashes of your entire life passing before your eyes. I guess there are similarities. I seem to enjoy both activities.
Howard

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