On 11/1/2023 11:32 PM, John Gotschall via KRnet wrote:
This happened when I answered a question on quora.
jg
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Great story. We've all done things while piloting that we fortunately
survived before we added the word "unable" to our flying vocabulary.
50+ years ago I made a 120 mile cross-country flight to take the check
ride for my Private ticket. On the trip home with the ink still wet on
my new certificate I spotted a column of smoke rising thousands of feet
above a rice field being burnt off. I thought, hey, I'm going to pop
right through that column of smoke. It weather was warm and the vents on
that little C150 were open to the max. That column of smoke turned out
to be one mile wide. I think you can imagine the rest of the story.
Larry Flesner
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