VAL AIR DURANGO COLORADO CHECK OUT FLIGHT

I go down to Val Air to fly my Asw-20. I knew Beverly and LaVerne St. Clair and actually interviewed with then to be a commercial ride pilot.
So I was a little surprised when I arrived to go flying that they required everyone to have a " Field Check" flight with a local instructor.
But what he heck I thought as Val Air looks to be a challenging grass airstrip; Theres tall trees on the approach to miss, barb wire fences to take your head off, the Animas river is right there you could conceivably go into, its in a fairly narrow valley etc etc.
So I rig and go up the the booth to get a field check flight in their ride plane a Blanik L23
LaVernes going to be my instructor, and I ask what are we going to do?
Oh the usual he said some straight ahead stalls, some slow flight and coordination exercises, OK lets go. You've got it he says as the rope goes tight and we take off, all ok and we look to be in good shape.
Ascending through about 6-700 ft AGL He yells, 'THERES THE TRAIN! LET GO OF THE CONTROLS- I'VE GOT IT!!" he pushes over into a zero G dive setting up to buzz the Durango Silverton tourist train. And buzzs it he does, he gets in 2 passes lower than the powerlines and then cranks a low level 180 to land. He's got it in a max effort slip at about 20' and asks me if I land to land it.
I decline and he does a short field landing so we don't have to push back too far.
How did I do I ask? Did I pass? Yea your OK he says.
I doubt the flight lasted 3 minutes.
Nick
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