B A R R Y wrote:
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Hey, that's how it exactly is in my country where aviation education
can only be afforded by roughly 1 in 1,000. Most Indian pilots are an
awfully snooty lot... heard so many say that

I met a 15 year old Indian student pilot. A really, really nice, and
very intelligent kid, who plans to be an airline pilot, possibly for an
Indian airline.

His mom rode along in the back seat, in traditional dress, for his first
few lessons. As usual, the first lesson involved parking and
securing the plane after the lesson. He's maybe 120 pounds soaking wet.
Watching him push a Warrior into the tie-down as pretty funny, until
we helped him out. The whole thing was kind of cute.

We'd kid him as the only pilot in history who needs to add nose weight
to solo. G (he dosen't REALLY need to...)

By now, he's probably got his commercial, and I don't think he has a
driver's license.


Nice one

I got my 8-yr old son to do an ultralight ride recently. He was excited
enough to answer "Yes" soon as I asked him whether he'd like the idea
of enrolling for a license (yep, you need a license even for
ultralights here in Dubai). Mulled over it awhile, then discussed it
with a pilot friend who laughed at the idea and I left it at that. And
that very guy mailed me a tale of an 8-yr old Californian flying
ultralight solos, just to rub it in

Btw, that ultralight didn't even have an attitude indicator or
inclinometer! And airspeed was in kilometers per hour, like in my car,
not knots. Top that?

Ramapriya