Capt Sandy
Well Known Member
Aviation Tales for Cold Winter Days, part two, where Jim continues his story, and the importance of Pie Insurance comes home:
....Past the playground and the fuel pump, a fellow in a brown flight jacket slide open a hangar door and pulled out a navy blue bi-plane. A young couple stood nearby, waiting for the ride of their lives. They?d see the sparkling waters of Puget Sound and the jagged peaks of the Olympics from a vantage very few get to see. Their flight would be thrilling, and I hoped for them, joyous. But it wouldn?t be even half the joy Roy and I, and others of our aviation tribe experience. It wouldn?t have the same joy, because their flight doesn?t carry with it the hours spent in a airplane hangar pounding rivets, or studying weather and courses or learning how to look up that one radio frequency you can?t find to get an IFR pop-up when you?re going to be in the clouds like it or not...
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....Past the playground and the fuel pump, a fellow in a brown flight jacket slide open a hangar door and pulled out a navy blue bi-plane. A young couple stood nearby, waiting for the ride of their lives. They?d see the sparkling waters of Puget Sound and the jagged peaks of the Olympics from a vantage very few get to see. Their flight would be thrilling, and I hoped for them, joyous. But it wouldn?t be even half the joy Roy and I, and others of our aviation tribe experience. It wouldn?t have the same joy, because their flight doesn?t carry with it the hours spent in a airplane hangar pounding rivets, or studying weather and courses or learning how to look up that one radio frequency you can?t find to get an IFR pop-up when you?re going to be in the clouds like it or not...
http://aplanehebuilt.tumblr.com/post/182324204125/pie-insurance-ive-been-coming-here-since-they