You’ve reminded me of the time back in the 70’s we got SO tossed around in an early 50’s V-tail over eastern Kansas that the airplane got upside down … and we weren’t IN the TCU. An old heavy mike came off its perch and boinked the PIC/owner who was spurting blood from his lip. I experienced total loss of control over my body and actually “saw” the newspaper article announcing my demise. I could barely tune the radios I was so nervous. The knothead I was flying with continued on into the clouds — illegally — with the help of some guy in a 400 Cessna w/ radar. When we landed in Burlington, IA, I actually kissed the ground. Not only did I learn not to fly near a TCU, I learned that they have powers that you can’t even see miles away … just like we learned as students.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/reader-mail/top-letters-and-comments-july-24-2020