About Good Pilots and Bad Pilots

I've been lucky or smooth, never had anybody mess up the
cockpit. Did have one student who came out to fly and
brought his sister along for the ride, a dual cross-country
from Wichita to Emporia, Marion, Newton and back to Wichita.
About half way to Emporia they both became ill. Seems they
had stopped for hamburgers for lunch and both also were not
feeling well before take-off.
I had plenty (?) of sic-sacks and they used them. When we
got to Emporia we threw the used bags in the trash ands
bought all the sic-sacks they had at the airport, 4 to
restock the airplane. We also took a while to settle down.
But half way to Marion the hamburgers took over again and
shortly they had used all four new bags. Then they still
got ill because of the smell. She dumped the aircraft
paperwork in the seat pocket at my instruction and used the
zip lock portfolio and he used the right hand pocket of his
NEW sports coat.
I, being the superior pilot/CFI with a nose used to
shoveling horse droppings and even some pigs [I was a "pile
it" , before I became an aviator] was able to resist the
need for myself. And the smell is still in my nostrils.

hen I was learning to be a CFI, I asked my friend and
instructor at Spartan (Auggie) how to handle air sick
students and was told that in the Cessna 150-172 airplanes,
open the window and stick their head outside. Never had to
do that.

BTW, that student is now an FAA Inspector


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| news:nnkKf.100060$4l5.33181@dukeread05...
| big ----- deal, also BFH = big hammer, tfc too cold
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| The 121 pilots have a full support staff to help with
flight
| planning and a crew to bring and serve the coffee. The
135
| charter pilot has the best and worst job, gets paid to
fly
| pretty good airplanes but has to carry the luggage, do
all
| the flight planning, brew and serve the coffee, and
clean
| the potty.
|
| .................not to mention the cockpit vomit, which
is a smell that
| never really leaves the airplane, and I can still mentally
visualize to this
| very day .
| :-))))))))))))))))
| Dudley Henriques
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