Getting your license is one great story/memory… a slice of your life. Your Coke drinkin grandfather was a special character whose toughness left a mark on you!
Wow! That was a good lesson,a reminder to take note of EVERYTHING from that examiner. Such freedom - then. Do you know that poem,it has a line about stretching out your hand to touch the Face of God. High Flight! Back in the 1990s when I used to visit and stay with my auntie a lot she was just back from visiting her sister who lived in a Granny Flat at her son's house near Devizes. So he had just acquired his helicopter pilots licence - and bought a helicopter,as you do!!! And none of his family would go up with him for his first independent flight. At last my Auntie agreed and she told me it was a wonderful experience to see all the landscape from above and he was totally competent so she wasn't nervous at all. But on landing the whole family treated her like the Hero of the Hour,a returner from the Jaws of Death!
Getting your license is one great story/memory… a slice of your life. Your Coke drinkin grandfather was a special character whose toughness left a mark on you!
Wow! That was a good lesson,a reminder to take note of EVERYTHING from that examiner. Such freedom - then. Do you know that poem,it has a line about stretching out your hand to touch the Face of God. High Flight! Back in the 1990s when I used to visit and stay with my auntie a lot she was just back from visiting her sister who lived in a Granny Flat at her son's house near Devizes. So he had just acquired his helicopter pilots licence - and bought a helicopter,as you do!!! And none of his family would go up with him for his first independent flight. At last my Auntie agreed and she told me it was a wonderful experience to see all the landscape from above and he was totally competent so she wasn't nervous at all. But on landing the whole family treated her like the Hero of the Hour,a returner from the Jaws of Death!
Great story~! Thanks for sharing~!
I haven't flown for over 30 years. I really enjoy flying but in Arkansas the traffic is a lot less than here south of Atlanta. Enjoy.
Thanks for the restack Paul! Yes a big difference in air traffic for sure!