Short Final

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A student pilot, after a successful navigation through complex, high-stakes conditions, is criticized for a minor landing error.
  • The pilot expresses frustration and sarcasm at the instructor's seemingly impossible standards.
  • The humorous contrast highlights the pressures and challenges of flight training.
  • The anecdote uses hyperbole to emphasize the vastness and complexity of space compared to the seemingly trivial landing error.
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From our “Learning to fly is FUN” file…

Student pilot to irate instructor: “You’re simply impossible to satisfy. I just finished navigating successfully through a boiling fluid swirling around a rotating sphere that is hurtling around a fusion reaction source at thousands of miles per hour. This system is moving in a circular motion around a black hole at who knows what speed, while the space it takes up is expanding. And then I bounced the landing six inches. SIX MEASLY INCHES! Get off my freakin’ back!”

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