The lack of thermal activity during the winter takes its toll on the most stable of us. A certain CFI, not a thousand miles from this club was doing a check flight for a passenger rating with a competent but impressionable pilot.
The CFI stressed the need for calm deliberate gentle flying. During the first part of the flight the checkee complied. During a calm deliberate gentle turn, the outside wing was calmly, gently and deliberately buffetted. The checkee ignored it. Immediately a calm, deliberate and gentle voice from the back seat yelled "what the hell do you think you are doing? that was a thermal! Turn you bastard, turn!!" |
