bluejay@shogun.DEC (Bluejay Adametz, CFI) (06/05/85)
[What ever happened to bug-fodder lines?] > You can bet your bottom dollar that some airplanes have a fully > developed personality.... It's probably more widely accepted than you realize that airplanes have personalities. I know one instructor who has said, publically and within earshot of the airplane, that he doesn't like our Piper Tomahawk; in fact, he's almost always putting the airplane down. Well, guess who the only person is who's ever had to declare an emergency in good ol' N23436? That's right, you guessed it. One day this instructor was starting an approach when the throttle cable broke, leaving him with a choice of full power or nothing (the throttle stuck open). He did kill the engine with the mixture and made an uneventful power-off landing, but the airplane made it's point. - Bluejay Adametz, CFI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the flapping feathers of | The above text does not in any ...decwrl!rhea!shogun!Bluejay | way represent the views, thoughts, or ...decwrl!rhea!samuri!Bluejay | or anything else of any person, or ...decwrk!rhea!raven1!Bluejay | institution, organization, or on the DEC Enet, | company, or sentient being, {Shogun,Samuri,Raven1}::Bluejay | other than [perhaps] myself.