Original Posted By: Rcaprd(at)aol.com
There is only one time in your life when you will pass your private pilot checkride, Tom, so savor the moment. I remember mine like it was yesterday.Andy Anderson, old-time instructor at David Wayne Hooks Memorial field outside of Houston, TX- gave me my checkride. Smooth and strong as an old hickory walking stick was old Andy, skin was the color of walnut and just as sturdy. I took my ride in a Piper Warrior that I knew inside and out and it went great. Andy pulled the old "darn... these old fingers... I dropped my pencil down there by the flap handle. Would you reach and get it while I try to fold this sectional, please?" while he put the airplane in an unusual attitude and messed up my inner ear. No problem; I recovered it and we moved on.He put me through the paces and I wanted him to. I wanted to please that examiner more than anything else in the world. He was my golden gate to my flying future and I wanted his name in my logbook that day. I wanted to show him that I knew how to fly an airplane.When we landed and he signed me off (he never really said I'd passed until he had signed me off), he told me that he used to be a Navy basic training instructor during the war and that he had sent boys younger than me off to fly fighters and bombers in a war, with fewer hours than I had in my logbook, and we're not talking about Piper Warriors either. Don't sell yourself short... the human mind and body can learn and perform things far more complex than flying a single-engine light aircraft with much less training than we receive, especially when we're doing something that we fervently enjoy and want to excel at. Now you have your ticket to learn. I found out that these old airplanes are good teachers, too ;o)Now follow me off my wing as I fly 41CC through that big field with the trees alongside it up ahead. The space between the trees and the fencerow is plenty wide enough to clear our wingtips. Smoke on and down onto the deck!!!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net_________________________________________________________________The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes is here. Get all the scoop. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/?icid=n ... __________
Pietenpol-List: passed your checkride!
RE: Pietenpol-List: passed your checkride!
Original Posted By: Hans Vander Voort
Yep, Ol' Andy reached down and shut the fuel off on the C-150 during my checkride (also at DWH).I passed. Shirt tail that was hung up in the hanger is long gone, but I have the other part of the shirt :)Joe>From: "Oscar Zuniga" >>Andy Anderson, old-time instructor at David Wayne Hooks Memorial field >outside of Houston, TX- gave me my checkride. Smooth and strong as an old >hickory walking stick was old Andy, skin was the color of walnut and just >as sturdy. I took my ride in a Piper Warrior that I knew inside and out >and it went great. Andy pulled the old "darn... these old fingers... I >dropped my pencil down there by the flap handle. Would you reach and get >it while I try to fold this sectional, please?" while he put the airplane >in an unusual attitude and messed up my inner ear. No problem; I recovered >it and we moved on._________________________________________________________________Get in the mood for Valentine's Day. View photos, recipes and more on your Live.com page. http://www.live.com/?addTemplate=Valent ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: passed your checkride!
Yep, Ol' Andy reached down and shut the fuel off on the C-150 during my checkride (also at DWH).I passed. Shirt tail that was hung up in the hanger is long gone, but I have the other part of the shirt :)Joe>From: "Oscar Zuniga" >>Andy Anderson, old-time instructor at David Wayne Hooks Memorial field >outside of Houston, TX- gave me my checkride. Smooth and strong as an old >hickory walking stick was old Andy, skin was the color of walnut and just >as sturdy. I took my ride in a Piper Warrior that I knew inside and out >and it went great. Andy pulled the old "darn... these old fingers... I >dropped my pencil down there by the flap handle. Would you reach and get >it while I try to fold this sectional, please?" while he put the airplane >in an unusual attitude and messed up my inner ear. No problem; I recovered >it and we moved on._________________________________________________________________Get in the mood for Valentine's Day. View photos, recipes and more on your Live.com page. http://www.live.com/?addTemplate=Valent ... ___Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: passed your checkride!