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Old 31st Aug 2012, 22:17
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Big Pistons Forever
 
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True story. My second PPL student was a 17 year old Air Cadet. It became immediately obvious that he allready knew how to fly , so I said " what is the deal with you" . Well the kid said, my father owns a bush operation in the Yukon with a Beaver, Cessna 185 and a Super Cub, all operated on wheels, skis and floats. He had been flying since he was 5 years old sitting on his fathers lap and had over a 1000 hrs of unofficial flying . Other then a bit of radio work and the official federally mandated stupidly complicated and mostly useless way of navigation planning ( which incidentally is identicle to the UK PPL sylabus ) and which he will never use again , I did not have a lot to teach him

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