"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:jpr_c.292038$eM2.33875@attbi_s51...

Even Bob -- my crusty old CFII with 20,000 hours in every form of
aircraft -- muttered "Oh, ****" to that.

He's retired now, but they just don't make 'em like that anymore.

Sounds like my CFII- there's a few of the kind left out there. He's
getting up there in years but is still clear as a bell where it
counts. And the instructors I flew with in Alaska had it, too, and
they were in their 30s. You just have to know where--and how--to look
for them.

Every so often when it's either wicked windy or disgusting low scud I
get a call from Hal. "Wanna go do some approaches? It's raining like
hell out here."

Best,
-cwk.