Friday, October 30, 2009

Squeezing in a commercial

Congratulations to Bill Swartz for adding Commercial Glider privileges to his ATP certificate today!

The flight test took all day, due to the weather. The ceiling was lower than the top of Tug Mountain until about 2pm. It rose just enough to do four pattern tows and squeeze in all the maneuvers between release and landing.

Bill handled it well and managed to avoid landing out this time.

The ground crew, Christopher and Pete, stood around patiently all day and then leapt into action as soon as flying became possible. The examiner, Bill Stinson, said we should take pride in our club spirit. We do.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Way to go Bill! And congratulations Rick on getting another one through.

Tim