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The Shop
"Plotting course for the Crab Nebula, Captain....."
I used to go up with my friends all the time, I really miss them.
Jerry & Paul Cody
Jerry Cody, 39, and his son Paul, twelve, of Reno, Nevada passed February 4, 2001 in an accident in his Wittman Tailwind W-8. They shared a love of flying and Homebuilts, and built many model airplanes and rockets together. Jerry loved flying his Tailwind, especially with his son. And Paul loved flying his model airplanes and launched his model rockets every chance he got. The Tailwind was originally built by Ron Sutton approximately thirty years ago.
Jerry is survived by his wife, Lisa, and his five year old daughter.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A South Carolina couple about to be married and two others were killed when an amateur-built plane crashed south of the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, officials said.
The single-engine plane was heading to North Las Vegas when it crashed about 5:30 p.m. Saturday about 45 miles northwest of Grand Canyon National Park's airport, Donn Walker, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, said Monday.
Albert G. Howle and Milena Stanoycheva, both of Greenville, S.C., were in Nevada for their wedding. The couple decided to take a tour of the Grand Canyon in Howle's father's plane.
Pilot Jerry Howle, 57, a Reno psychiatrist and Anna Dolinska, who had played tennis at Clemson University with Stanoycheva, were killed.
An "FAA Inspector" is an employee of the FAA, they are normally too busy to give checkrides. POI's have their time taken up by other duties more important that a PPL or IRA. It's free to the applicant, the only pt 61 CR required to go through the FSDO is the CFI initial, and many of these are handed off to DPE's anyway. Usually the only time a PPL will see the POI is if the DPE is being observed.
Some examiners are corrupt--in fact one examiner, associated with a flight school not unlike the setup Huck posted was recently found to have violated the terms of his DE status. He had it revoked. All of his applicants were subject to have a mandatory (44-709) ride with an FAA Inspector to re-examine privileges for the certificate... at the applicants expense. 100's of people.
It's best not to get involved with these too-good-to-be true pilot mills. Because even things like an examiner not preforming tasks required by the particular PTS, or even if he have you a legal ride but was later found to have violated terms it can leave YOU with an invalidated certificate.
Pit Row
22 years later I still remember my first solo, one of the best feelings ever.
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