"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Interesting. Both Mary and I were trained to ALWAYS use the leading
zero. Runway 7 is ALWAYS called runway 07.

Ah...but this is just another example of an instructor pushing his/her
own
ideas as gospel. "My instructor told me to..." is not justification for
anything. Heard it too many times on checkrides.

I suppose you're right -- but this was done by two different CFIIs, in
two different states, separated by 7 years. And my guy was an old
grey-beard, while Mary's was a young buck.

Dang, what're the odds of *both* of us being taught incorrectly?

Pretty high. (See my post about the AIM.)

--Gary