Warbird Information Exchange

Hey Mudge,
When you get frustrated, check out www.studentpilot.com - there's some great stuff on that site. And, if you get a chance, read the article at http://www.studentpilot.com/articles/sa ... fety_id=18 I wrote that many years ago, but still tell others about that incident.

I've written a few other articles that were published, but it's been so long, I don't remember where they're posted any more.
One was discussing the psychologyof flying after loosing a friend in a plane crash. The other was an article on my first in-flight emergency (also known as how I got my tail-wheel endorsement).

There's some great online resources for people going through the same learning curve you're experiencing now.

Stick with it - you'll get there in time
(95 hrs, 13 instructors, 3 flight schools, $10K, 25 months and 3 tries at the exam - that's all it took )

Cindy, you were certainly right not to fly the plane with a known defect. There was no critical combat or medical mission. As for peer pressure; it is one thing to listen to another informed opinion, and consider if it may be correct. Perhaps the tach was known to be inaccurate on that plane until warmed up. But if all they have is opinion and nothing to back it up, then you do what you think is right. Way back at the start of the Vietnam War, there was a cooked up excuse to attack called the Tonkin Gulf resolution; it was akin to the WMD thing Bush/Cheney did. All those Senators, all except one voted for the official lie, all except Wayne Morse of Oregon who voted his intelect and his conscience. 20years or 50 years later who do you think felt at peace with himself?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Patience is as patience does, Mudge.....Just remember the thing with the medical....all things come in good time. Thought I'd never get checked out in the T-34, until, after a poifectly MISERABLE flight (for me, anyhoo), the check pilot got out and said "Give me your logbook"....(talking visions of doom, here! ), and signed me off!

Like to be there with a camera when the instructor climbs out, and tells you "It's all yours. Shoot a few landnings."