Originally Posted by
Cilba
He checked me out in the Cessna 185 (I had previous tailwheel time). 6 take offs, 6 full stop landings at 3 different strips. 3 practice forced landings-1 hour, $40. At the conclusion he offered me a job. That was in 1979.
Yes, Max didn’t waste time.
A year or two later, with a wet CPL, I stopped for fuel at Cudal in a Cessna 180 and totally stuffed up the landing. Max wandered over with some kindly advice, said something like, ‘these things will bite if you let them, but you did well to go around.’
Like so many know, Max was a gentleman and one of the Industry Good Ones.