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St Stephen Ames wrote:

<much snippage follows>
 
>I didn't take ground school and I can't imagine
> getting as much out of it as I did these NG's...

I studied on my own, too.

> Right off
> the bat, bad things started to happen, engine began to sputter right
> after liftoff...

Yikes! 

> and all went well till he asked me how
> I knew what the 1st ckpoint was, I said I used to live there and

I forgot to look at my watch on takeoff; I had to guess how long I'd
been up and figure out where were then to tell my DE (or should that be
DI?) how much longer until we reached the first checkpoint.


> It was very bumpy up there and we were
> deviating 50-100 feet at times just from the drops and bumps...I asked
> if that would be added to my tolerances(jokingly) and rec'd no
> response...

Yeeeeee-haaaaaaaaww! I did my ride as Hurricane Earl was cmoing in from
the Gulf to Florida. I knew I'd blown the ride not holding altitude
until he took the controls for hood work and also couldn't hold
altitude! I gotta ask you -- did you also hold your altitude & position
better when you were under the hood?

> What happened to his sense of humor, he had one during the
> oral?

>                                 St Stephen Ames - PP-ASEL

Feels so good, don't it?

Congratulations.

Cheers-

m w grossmann
PP-blah-blah-blah
