Truly a great story to end the day. I especially like the part

and he crumpled like a Swede in a hockey fight

Looking forward to the next installment.

Cheers! Had another guy solo today. Hope he's celebrating well tonight. The guys a natural.

Even though Edmonton was mostly cloudy and hazy got good enough to go in the afternoon.

Heading over to the neighbors now for a pop or two myself.

well, judging from your ride - you might not swing at all.

Hey wrenchturner - say the last line out loud. It's not intended to be educational, it was supposed to make you laugh.

Truly amazing website. One bit of camel lore that doesn't seem to be on your site Yo is that they used to call camels "Ships of the Desert" and people thought it was because they were used for transporting cargo across the sea of sand. However, the real reason was discovered when they did an autopsy...

Well Yoyoma, kudos to you. Google is just amazing, and so are you for thinking of looking up a picture like that and tieing it in so well.

False - I hope that AC guy never calls again. We have enough flight instructors already!

The person below me is typing with one hand.

We also encourage the students themselves to buddy up on certain flights. This provides the benefits that Airtids mentioned as well as it promotes some relationship building and it's good to observe another student fly. Many students aren't naturally gregarious. This is good for future contacts in t...

Haz my man,

you're suffering "re-treaditis" with the latest avatar. It was previously worn-out another person here. I can't remember who exactly, maybe Birddog??!?

I am sorry but...did you actually take a picture of the woman who insulted you and posted on the forum?

..and did you actually bring that moose into town, put him infront of that mall and encourage him to stomp that guy?

BTW, thanks for getting rid David. I don't agree with her anymore.

A lot of these types of comments are heard in every business these days. No workplace seems to be as good as it was in the "good old days" of 10 or 20 years ago. One of the big reasons is the focus on making a return for sure. And this is driven by all of us - everyone who has an investment in a mut...

Yes, in fact it's called Keen's Dry Mustard "Genuine Double Superfine" It's been around for years in a yellow and red box or tin. Like in the other thread about being old, I remember as a kid having this mustard mixed up with a bit of water as we didn't have the luxury of prepared mustard. :D BTW Wa...

I'm not wondering what they're like to work for, but wondering what they're like to fly on? My brother is looking to go on a charter with them to Vegas and the customer comments are mixed - which you might expect. However, I'm wondering if anyone here knows much about their maintenance, training and...

As long as you keep your current signature animation, ........

.......I agree with her.

Perhaps your school is up to date, but many have old student files that haven't been pursued recently. The busy flight instructors that are there are often not interested in the slogging it takes to do this kind of follow-up. People who have only partially completed training and simply "disappeared"...

Oh, I thought maybe you'd just lost a lot of weight. :lol: :lol: Anyway, here's a cool little hack that lets you use it to mark out routes (like running or biking or whatever) and it will show the distance. You simply click on reference points along the way. Especially neat on the zoomed in satellit...

Pugster, I agree that the calls on the take-off roll (I use "Power and guages OK") should be made early. Both for control purposes and also if you are going to abort, which is the purpose of confirming proper engine operation anyway, you want to do it as early as possible. I don't believe it is any ...

Lisa to Homer:

"Listen to him. He's a man of science and you can barely read."

Airtids - I'm curious how many times the DFTE's around there get a PPL applicant to set up like you described? As for spins, I agree that the students should be shown. However, as they are purely a training (or aerobatic) exercise, the real key is to get them to consistently, every time, recognize t...

Sooooo much better than squirrel nuts.