this brings me back to Summer 1994 hard... met my (now) wife... taking flying lessons, starting at my current job.. being 24

Flying lessons, DC? How far did you get? I have my CPL (not that I've managed to do anything with it yet).

I had about 20 hours of solo time before my first flight with a new flight instructor and an incident involving a Cessna 172 doing a 180 on landing and careening off the runway... last flight...

Whoa. Yeah, offroading with a Cessna, not so good.

The CFI yelled at me about it, I'd done a few hundred landings by then and she thinks I pressed the right brake hard on landing?? Yeah thats what I did, the wheels touched down so I decided to smash the right brake to the floor. Puh-lease. My CFI's generally were pieces of crap, had to switch them every week or two because they kept leaving or generally flaking out. I came to the conclusion CFI must pay one notch up from fast food.

I wont forget the first instructor though who had > 5k hours and was superb in every sense. Except once he solo'd me (13 hrs in) he took off. I think he liked to solo people and then leave. He taught me a completely different method for crosswind landings though than every later instructor.

Most exciting flight school moment #2, a Piper cub crashing in front of me when it couldnt make it to the runway. Most exciting moment #3, a plane flying faster, under me, while I was on final approach and taking my runway. Most exciting moment #4, my CFI (probably the 5th!) following VOR radials with me under the opaque hood, and almost colliding with another plane (( from the SAME flight school )) at 2000 ft! Talk about a clusterfu*k company. (The 2nd flight school I went to.) Most exciting moment #5, grabbing the mixture knob instead of carb heat and killing my engine mid flight over the middle of Anchorage (no big deal but exciting having no motor running) . Most exciting moment #6, my first solo flight, and the tower comes on and starts giving me bizzare new pattern instructions I've never had before.

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