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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jun 22, 2010
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Here we are preparing to start introduction to aviation hobby for my collegue. He has been interested about my flying trips and now he had good opportunity to take a ride with me... Plan: fly to Turku EFTU and have a coffee there, then head to some lake and make some splashing...
Date Taken:
Jun 22, 2010
Place Taken:
EFIK, Kiikala Finland
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326, Flying around Finland
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John Robert Dunlop - Jun 22,2010
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Thank you for the flight Markku! Your SeaRey is the finest! I know the good feeling of having a friend up for the first time. Those big eyes and that wide grin!<br /><br />I took the wife of a client up splashing on Sunday. I thought she was going to kiss me when we got down! Renews ones life!
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Don Maxwell - Jun 22,2010
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Once I took a young Chinese woman up in my SeaRey. She was new to the USA and had hardly even ridden in an elevator, let alone a small airplane. I kept asking her if she was all right and each time she said yes. We landed on a lake and then back at the airport. When she got out of the airplane she was so overcome by the experience that she could only flutter her hands and had to go sit alone on the grass for about twenty minutes before she could talk. The she insisted that her husband go for a ride, too.
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Lee Pfingston - Jun 23,2010
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When I first inquired about flying, I called an FBO at Chgo/midway. I figured that being embarassed on the phone was better than going there and getting thrown out the back door like the cat, and to the accompaniment of laughter from the real pilots. The guy on the phone spent the time, laid out all I would need, which I dutifully wrote on both sides of about three envelopes. Suspicions confirmed! A guy needs about 11 years of college to fly an airplane! I thanked him for his time, but just before hanging up, I asked , from the comfort and anominity of the telephone 'how long would it take to actually get in a Plane' He asked 'how long will it take for you to get to MDW?' 'about fifteen minutes' ' we can have you in the air about twenty five minutes from now!' He had me! and set the hook deeply.I write this 45 years, 7000 hours and more airplanes than I will admit to owning later. Later I became chief flight instructor at a Cessna dealer. Every magazine had five dollar coupons in it for 'intro flights' for the five dollars, and some rebate from Cessna you gave the guy about 20 minutes in the air and sent him home with a signed logbook. Rather than assigning one of my instructors to do this, I tried to do it myself. Considered it paying my dues as well as the rewards of the big eyes.
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