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We can all come back up for air again. Thank you Paul Berge.
We can all come back up for air again. Thank you Paul Berge.
Yep, stick you’re head in the sand. If ya can’t see it, it ain’t there.
Tom C…Huh ?
My DPE told me just before endorsing my private pilots cert back in ’66. ”Well, you can teach a monkey how to fly but you can make him smooth.” After 54 years of flying I still keep this in mind and emphasize on smoothness from day one.
It’s the social distancing everyone is talking about. You want to keep at least 6 ft from the runway edge ?
The very idea that you know what a FUNK is, much less flown one, is impressive. Keep up the good work. Really enjoy your writing and point of view concerning flying and airplanes!
Thank you Paul. Your article reminds me fondly (most of the time) of my days in my Cessna 170A.
It have always wanted to Fly around in a blue Funk
Test of sign in.
How about this one, a training department crew of instructors took off in a B757 out of KFLL, had to shut down an engine, asked to return to the airport, came in hot (read FLAT), too hot (flat) to flare, jammed the nose gear onto (into) the runway, and managed to get it stopped. Bill?, TEN MILLION bucks. A tail dragger pilot would NEVER do anything like that.
“The airplane already knows how to fly; you can’t teach it a thing.” (Boeing may have gleaned that for its 737-MAX POH, but that’s unconfirmed.)
Ouch!
“It was a simpler time, nostalgia for which lies mummified beneath a gauze of Joni Mitchell tunes that mute the polyester embarrassments of the 1970s.” Now that my friends, is some excellent writing.
"It was a simpler time, nostalgia for which lies mummified beneath a gauze of Joni Mitchell tunes that mute the polyester embarrassments of the 1970s. True, the home-schooled tailwheel pilot might self-destruct while self-educating, but that’s the price we paid for freedom back then. "
References and allegory that would make Richard Bach blush–but that “those of us of a certain age” know EXACTLY what you mean. Another Blazing Saddles line comes to mind–Taggart says “Goll-EE, Mr. Lamar, if you don’t use your tongue…(redacted)…!”
Thanks for the insight–and the laughs!