[TheForge] OT Learning to Fly

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Trees worried me when I was first learning to fly, too.  One day my instructor told me that this was the day I was going to approach the airport and land the plane without any coaching from him.  (He had always talked me through the steps on previous landings.)  So, there I was, merrily cruising toward the airport at TPA, making my radio calls to the tower, and feeling pretty good, cleared for a straight in landing.  Just as I crossed the threshold, the instructor calmly picked up the mike and requested a go-around.  Then he turned to me and calmly said,  "Aubrey, in order to land you have to get close to the ground."  I looked at the altimeter and I was still at TPA as I crossed the middle of the runway below....
 
Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Larry Brown
Sent: Wed 12/13/2006 8:06 PM
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The trees get in the way, down here
;-)
L Brown

At 09:20 AM 12/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:



>On 12/13/06 6:56 AM, "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>So why do I get lost on the ground so much? :)

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