Blonde ? ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: coupers-digest V1 #261 > Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 12:32 PM > > Speaking of checklists, > > Once I took a Danish Girl from Columbus, Ga to Dothan, AL in a Piper > Warrior. I preflighted the airplane before picking her up in the car. > When we arrived at the airport we boarded the plane and I began to use my > checklist. I used the checklist several times during the course of the > flight. When we landed at Dothan and she was about to leave, I asked her > how she liked the flight. She said, " she liked it very much but felt > that I was much more nervous than she was." I asked, "what do you > mean?" She said, "well, you felt like you had to keep refering to the > directions!" I said, "that wasn't the directions, that is a check list.
> All pilots use checklists." She said, "no they don't, Mr. ___________ is > a very good pilot and he doesn't have to use one." I said, "I bet he > does, you just haven't noticed it." She said, " Oh no, he is a very good > pilot and doesn't feel like he has to use one." I said o.k., but he > should. By the way, Mr._________________ flew an Aerostar. > > Her point was that if I had been a "very good pilot" I wouldn't have had > to use a checklist. . . . . > Needless to say, I still do and always will. > > When I asked the same girl to "crack the window" in the car, she looked > at it long and wondered why I wanted her to break it. > > Skipper Barfield > Ercoupe 99398 > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. >
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