“Fly Like An Eagle!”🤗 My Actifit Report Card: June 15 2026
“Fly Like An Eagle!”🤗
“Your Ready Silvertop!”😊
Hmmm………………….😳
David my Flight instructor, always dressed professionally with a button up shirt and tie…………
Today he looked like he had just come from his University of Cincinnati graduation ceremony. He ranked top of his class………he Graduated “Maga Cum Laude”!😇
We were practicing “Touch and Go’s”………….
Takeoffs, then landing, then back up again, to get in several more practice landings!😊
Then David instructed me to take him back to the FBO and park the aircraft.
“Silvertop shut down the engine…..but stay here in the cockpit!”☺️
Another man dressed just as professionally, climbed into the cockpit of my Piper Cherokee cruiser 140, he was carrying a clipboard…………..
“So your David’s student, if David says your ready….. your ready!”😇
“Depart, and take me North towards the “Blue Ash” airport, heading 015, climb and maintain an altitude of 3,000 feet!☺️
Silvertop didn’t see this coming…………..
I had a federal aviation Flight Examiner sitting in the right seat of my Aircraft!
This was to be my Private Pilot Check Ride!😊
When I had the “Blue Ash airport” in sight, the examiner told me to abort my landing, and to follow a different heading!
“Silvertop, let’s put you “Under the Hood” for a few minutes!”😇
“Under the Hood”, is a solid plastic visor placed over your face, that completely blocks your vision of “Outside”!😳
“Silvertop fly a 360 degrees circle, then roll out level at a heading of 175 degrees, and continue to maintain 3,000 feet!”
I was flying completely by “instruments” ONLY now!……………..😮
“OK Silvertop, now remove your hood and take me home!”😊
I removed the hood that blocked my outside vision.
Right below us, was a 315 foot tall 1/3 replica of the Eiffel Tower. It is the centerpiece for the Kings Island amusement park just north of Cincinnati!
The I 71 highway, runs right along side this very large amusement park, and runs North to South.
Flying South, and following this highway for less than ten minutes, took us directly back to our home Airport!
“Lunken tower, I am on a three mile straight in approach, landing full stop from the North!”☺️
“Congratulations Silvertop, you just earned your wings!”🤗
48 years ago today June 15 1978 Silvertop became a licensed Pilot!🥳
Till tomorrow Mike😊
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Happy Aviation Anniversary dear! However, you ARE grounded, !LOLZ 🤗😍😘🌹❤️
Lol.... Well at least I never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane like our son!!!🤣😇🥰
'Tis true! 🤗🙏🌹
I am scared of heights!!😅
That's a pretty badass story, my friend! You've had your wings for most of the time that I've been alive! That's quite amazing! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
It’s a completely different world, my friend. The first time I flew cross country while I was still a student pilot. I realized I just can’t stop and pull over Lol!😇🤣
Absolutely, that I know for sure! Haha...yeah, it's not exactly like driving a car cross country, that's for sure! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I was flying over a dense forest in Kentucky..... nothing but trees for miles and miles, not a place to lose an engine!🙄
Wow, yeah, that would be a very inconvenient location to have mechanical issues! I'm glad that you never did, my friend! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I was trained to react to a engine out situation as a student pilot....... unfortunately that was usually one of my week points being able to glide dead stick!😳🙄
Ah, then I can see how flying over vast tracks of forest could indeed be a tad stressful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
It certainly made me think about the reliability of my single engine aircraft, I'm glad I was flying a brand new aircraft at the time!!!😇😀
That's a very good thing, my friend, and slacking on equipment maintenance is never a good idea, but many times more so with an airplane! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Very true my friend!🙄
I have had my share of mechanical issues with airplanes….
Once I found the wrench on top of the cylinder head when I preflight checked. Another time I found a bubble on the front tire. It was about to blow a third time I started up the engine and had zero oil pressure!🙄
At least all those issues happened while you were still on the ground, my friend! Airborne malfunctions are not so fun! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Most definitely my friend and that’s why there’s so many preflight checklist items!😇😅👍
Imagine the hair-raising time before pre-flight checklists! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
It’s actually not too bad, but you have to be very thorough that you don’t miss anything on the checklist!👍😊
How long is the checklist? 😁🙏💚✨🤙
It’s very detailed my friend, every instrument gets checked!💪☺️
That's a very good thing, my friend, and I'm glad that you followed the checklist closely! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Following a checklist for pre-flight is always extremely important my friend!!!😇😀
Indeedy, and I'm curious what the checklist would be like for an anti-gravidic craft that navigates space-time! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Well I'm sure it would have to be very thorough..... that sounds challenging!!!😇
Well. I'm sure that there's a lot more to take into account! I sure wouldn't mind having one of those! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Definitely my friend!😀
I joke, but I'm pretty sure that those sorts of hyper-advanced technologies will finally be released, and available to the surface population quite soon. It's certainly going in that direction very quickly. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
If you stand back and look technically has and is advancing extremely quickly my friend!😇👍😊
Indeed, that's quite true, and that's only the technologies that most people know! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Very true I can see that as well. Technology is marching onward!👍😇😊
Indeedy, and lots of mind-blowing stuff will appear, seemingly out of nowhere! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I agree, my friend. It’s happened before it will happen again!👍😇😊
Yep, that's indeed true, my friend, and it's going to happen a lot more, and a lot more quickly! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Absolutely correct my friend!👍😊
It's coming a lot faster than most people think, my friend! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Just look how cell phones have advanced….. who would believe we would have a computer in our pocket!😇
Indeed, and you can even run some AI LLM's from them, which is crazy! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
👍😀...............
Well done my friend great story and accomplishment wishing you the best week
@silvertop
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Thank you, my friend!😊
The strange part is, I’m afraid of heights just not in an aircraft!😇
Nice job on the recertification! That sure is a small airport with a relatively short runway, perfect for small planes! Glad to hear your instrument rated, those will keep you alive when you can't trust your own senses!
The first thing they teach you, is always trust your instruments!😇
Many a pilot has become disoriented, and did not trust what the instruments were displaying......🙄😬
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STOPNice! Are you still flying? And is that airport active? Would be weird with all the cars around. Looks more like a street now :-D
The Mrs laughs and tells me I am grounded!🤣😇
Well at least I pilot my aircraft, our youngest son was jumping out of airplanes.... until he became a daddy!😍
They actually built a residential neighborhood on both sides of the runway in the small town of Lynden wa.
I'm sure homes are expensive, but if you're a doctor or lawyer, and love to fly this would be a perfect place to live!!
So, the runway is still being used for lift offs and landings? That would be crazy :-D
Yes it is my friend it's very popular!😀
If you have a neighborhood full of pilots it works out OK, I used to fly over top of a football stadium for a high school on my approach.....
They really didn't like low flying planes or the noise🙄
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