When 'encourage' means 'enforce'

Saturday, December 1, 2007

I had an interesting experience this week. I accompanied a pilot to Lincoln for him to do a check ride with the FAA. Now a check ride with the Feds is about as attractive as contemplating a re-do on a tooth root canal procedure so neither of us were eager for the trip! How did I get involved? Well last year, I gave him the instruction that helped earn his private pilot's license. Then I taught him how to fly a conventional gear airplane, popularly called a "tail dragger." Then last fall an errant wind gust blew him off the runway on landing.

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