Short Final

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A student pilot humorously describes successfully navigating extremely complex cosmic phenomena, including Earth's movement, the solar system's orbit, and an expanding universe.
  • Despite these astronomical feats, the student expresses immense frustration with the instructor for focusing solely on a minor, 6-inch bounced landing.
  • The student perceives the instructor as being unreasonably demanding and impossible to satisfy, highlighting a humorous contrast between cosmic scale and trivial errors.
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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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