23 years ago, out for some line training with a company that had just hired me for my first job, ink on the licence was still wet....the Training Pilot (and Chief Pilot by the way) had me flying low level down a gentle valley along some train tracks, something I would be doing a great deal of in my new position. As we fly along, he was pointing out various things, and he says...
"Let's not stop now, but on the way back, if I asked if you could get into that spot, do you think you could?"
As I give the area a quick once over as we fly by, I feel the aircraft pitch up as he takes control and tells me I just died.
He was setting me up for the wires he was now clearing.
I NEVER forgot that lesson.