"NW_Pilot" wrote in message

RIP, Mr. Wiley your stories at the airport, your friendly character and
advice will be missed!!!! Seeing his plane every now and then floating in
the lake on approach to Pearson field will also be missed.

Mr. Wiley will be missed! by all of us locals that had the pleasure to
know him.

I didn't know him that well, but he was the examiner in my instrument
checkride and so I have his signature in my logbook.

Before the test I heard him at the FBO chewing on a private pilot applicant
he'd just tested. Apparently it didn't go so well.
I kept quiet and made mental notes and was amazed to hear that the kid had
passed the checkride; Wiley was just giving him advice.
He was a perfectionist. He gave me my checkride from the backseat since he
wasn't IFR-current (and I took the test in IMC) and even took some time to
chew on the safety pilot/CFII for not getting me into unusual-enough
attitudes.

I would love to have heard his stories.

-c