
Firstly, thank you for your congrats, although I got it nearly two years ago, LOL!
Unfortunately I had 2 or 3 jobs "fall through" and was unable to follow the work to the other end of the country... but that's a whole other story
(I'm flying FW commercially, but, you know? Its just not QUITE as much fun, haha!

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I have to agree - again with my little experience - that perhaps the venison recovery days injected a somewhat "kiwi" attitude into what can and what SHOULD be lifted... get away with it one, twice, three times then "Hey, what the hell..."
As for the "short" comment... I have yet to meet one woman who can fly a hughes 300 with her hand resting on her knee like the guys seem to be able to do
Still, I take that to mean we must have better skills to fly with our entire arm rather than just our wrist...