my handle isn't plthijinx for nothing!:D hey B gotta heineken?:beer: :thumb:

Best way to avoid that is to try and find an older CFI. Yeah, I know that you could say it's a form of discrimination, but you are a lot less likely to have your CFI leave because s/he got the airline job that s/he was really waiting for and just using teaching to build hours / earn money / fill in the time.

Unfortunately, most CFIs are only there until they get the job they "really" want. The best teachers (and the ones who stick around) are the ones who are there becuase THIS is what they want to do.

Never discount the importance of in order to be "an older CFI" they have to still be alive. That's a good sign.;)

there are alot of old pilots and there are alot of bold pilots but there are no "old bold pilots" - good words to live by.

here you go els, sorry it took so long.....:) quality kinda sux, well, no it sux! but hey! i only had a second or so to snap the pic before my flare!:D

here's another one from may of 2001 somewhere in between houston and kerville texas.....

Maybe it's the camera, but that looks a bit low. Didn't touch before the displaced threshold, didja?

Or were you just flying one of those silly Piper things with the wings on the bottom that float halfway to China? :-)

c'mon mags! haven't ya ever stretched out a landing before?:p

silly piper things? them's fightin' words! :D i can spot land a piper a hulluva lot better than i can a cessna. i guess it's really like the ford and chevy rivalry:D (i laned passed the threshhold and before the numbers:D )

the landing was a c-172 and the cruise flt was a grumman tiger "AA5B"

They only float if you don't maintain precision airspeed control on approach -- just like <B>any</B> airplane.

c'mon now! i had to have some sort of excuse:D

One of "you people" landed on Route 17 today near the Broome/Tioga border. He made his wish come true pl.

For all you pilots, here are some scary words. :(

At least no one said "oops!"

Brian

damn bruce, that gave me the willies. i've read a bunch in various mags but i have yet to listen (until now) of the transcripts. i recognize a couple of them from the NTSB Reporter (not for profit rag)

Just consider it cautionary tales.;)