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.....so guess you guys don't wear white shirts with epeletts at you flight school eh?
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No, no white shirts. Just the polo-type shirts with our name and crap on them. I was actually cheating and dressing down that day. I mean, it was Sunday, nobody was around and I decided to wear jeans!!
So, as we're being towed across the ramp past Signature, my chief flight instructor is walking up to me, laughing about my flat tire.
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And your facial expression looks like go ahead an try it bitch I will f-in kill you with my bare hands.
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Nah. More like, "My student just blew a tire and now I'm going to take crap from all my pilot buddies. At least I'll get a free lunch, cool photo, and good story out of the deal."
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And your facial expression looks like go ahead an try it bitch I will f-in kill you with my bare hands.
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Nah. More like, "My student just blew a tire and now I'm going to take crap from all my pilot buddies. At least I'll get a free lunch, cool photo, and good story out of the deal."
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And I swear, I knew every freaking pilot at the FBO that day, it seemed...
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.....so guess you guys don't wear white shirts with epeletts at you flight school eh?
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No, no white shirts. Just the polo-type shirts with our name and crap on them. I was actually cheating and dressing down that day. I mean, it was Sunday, nobody was around and I decided to wear jeans!!
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Lucky you then cause I'd imagine that monkey suit would feel rather constricting toward the end of the day.
Lastly I have met you and spent a whole weekend in your presense your really that big if not physically then your persona you enter a room and you own it.
But then I have never met any quiet,soft spoken or timid Marines before so I'd expect nothing less!
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And I swear, I knew every freaking pilot at the FBO that day, it seemed...
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I once got suckered into trying the "Bravo 10 Challenge" at KFAT. The distance between the displaced threshold on 11R and B10 taxiway isn't much, but to me as a new pilot it seemed SHORT! My instructor bet me that I couldn't make it off the runway in that distance and I tried my best . . . and made it, minus the majority of the rubber on the right main. Not only did tower comment on all the pretty blue smoke, but I think everyone in the school was on the balcony to watch me taxi in with the bald-spot-to-the-cords on a brand new tire: buh-BUMP-buh-BUMP-buh-BUMP.
It's a cosmic law: If a pilot makes a simple, teenie-tiny mistake, everyone will be there to watch.
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Not only did tower comment on all the pretty blue smoke, but I think everyone in the school was on the balcony to watch me taxi in with the bald-spot-to-the-cords on a brand new tire: buh-BUMP-buh-BUMP-buh-BUMP.
Yeah. We got bitched out pretty hard after that one. No one has attempted it since!
And while Lloyd looks big and mean, he's just a giant pussycat. Of course, still no one knows what he and Mike were doing those five hours they went missing. Probably getting their fix by beating up bums in a back alley.
We had club Kilo at SNA - which was the intersection everyone would take off from. I have yet to do it, I came close a couple - close to the intersection, close to landing on the grass, etc. I stopped doing that, it was not cool!
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