Flight Instructor's Funniest Moment

Video Transcript

"My name is Dorothy Schick. I'm a flight instructor and owner of TakeWING at Creswell Airport near Eugene, Oregon. I think my funniest moments have been with my student pilots. One, I can recall, decided at about 3,000 ft. that instead of pulling on the carburetor heat, he'd pull the mixture out. Now the mixture control shuts off the fuel to the engine. So, there we are at 3,000 ft. and he shut down the engine. Typically I don't get too excited about something like that. I just looked over at him and asked him, "What are you going to do now?" He was very quick to shove it back in, which shows that he was actually getting trained well. And that's probably the funniest moment I've had. All of the others have been extremely fun. Watching my students solo for the first time. Watching them obtain their pilot's certificates. Those are great moments as well. The most fun of my job is actually flying with other pilots and student pilots as they attain the skills that they need. I love flying taildraggers. So I fly from the backseat of old Aeronca Champs. I get to see people do all kinds of interesting things from the backseat and they have a lot of fun doing it. Probably the most fun I have is flying in a tail dragger and giving people their first, initial tailwheel endorsements, and that's a lot of fun. Landing at grass strips, a lot of fun. So I've got a great job and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world."