Trial flights are great.
The most memorable was taking a bloke up with terminal cancer.
It was a real struggle getting him comfy and the chest strap was pushing on things I didn't really want to know about. So sod the manual I didn't make him wear the strap. As he said if he died in the plane we would be saving the NHS a fortune in morphine.
Had a brillant hour flight with him round Loch Ness, Glen Affric.
Towards the end he became very tired and said he want to just watch the landing. No probs.
4 weeks later his wife popped by the school with a heap of aviation books for me. The chap had died that week and had left the books to me and had written a card to go with them thanking me for the time and effort and lack of understanding shown about his condition.
He had had told me on the brief that he had terminal cancer, I didn't know what to say so came out with "ok well that won't get you out of doing the takeoff and landing" apperently that was a whole heap better than saying "sorry to hear that".
He had another booking that week she dropped in but unfotunatly he couldn't come. The MacMillian nurse did come though, all she had heard about for the last 4 weeks was flying around the Highlands
MJ