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Key Takeaways:

  • The article presents a humorous anecdote from the "Learning to fly is FUN" file, showcasing a student pilot's exasperation.
  • A student pilot sarcastically describes navigating immense, cosmic complexities to trivialise a minor six-inch bounced landing.
  • It highlights the student's frustration with an instructor's perceived over-strictness regarding a small error, contrasting it with the exaggerated universal challenges of flight.
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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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