Holy shit, I almost got fucking KILLED today by a student.
So, I'm teaching landings to this guy that's never flown before. I tell him "LIGHTLY put your hands on the controls so you can feel how to land the plane." So, we're about 100 feet off the ground, and instead of LIGHTLY holding the controls, he's got them in a goddamn DEATH GRIP. I was having to wrestle the plane out of his hands to land it.
Now for the fun part. We touch down, and he JAMS ON THE BRAKES. Now, when you do this in a car, it's cool. The car stops really quickly. A car also has four wheels that distribute the weight evenly. An airplane does NOT. It has three wheels, so when you jam on the brakes like that, it tends to want to flip the fuck over.
So, I punched him in the chest. Yeah, I did. Hey, it got his feet of the brakes and we lived.
So, I'm teaching landings to this guy that's never flown before. I tell him "LIGHTLY put your hands on the controls so you can feel how to land the plane." So, we're about 100 feet off the ground, and instead of LIGHTLY holding the controls, he's got them in a goddamn DEATH GRIP. I was having to wrestle the plane out of his hands to land it.
Now for the fun part. We touch down, and he JAMS ON THE BRAKES. Now, when you do this in a car, it's cool. The car stops really quickly. A car also has four wheels that distribute the weight evenly. An airplane does NOT. It has three wheels, so when you jam on the brakes like that, it tends to want to flip the fuck over.
So, I punched him in the chest. Yeah, I did. Hey, it got his feet of the brakes and we lived.
pyrogrrl:
Glad you lived. Sounds extreme.