Dana Kowalski on WingmanNetwork

Flight Instructor at Desert Sky Aviation · Phoenix, AZ

Soloed a student this morning. He is 19, works nights at a warehouse, and pays for every hour in cash. Three trips around the pattern and he taxied back grinning like he had won something. Days like this make instructor pay worth it. Barely. But worth it.

2 comments

Karen Whitfield

Cutting the shirt tail is still the best tradition we have. Tell him it gets less terrifying and more expensive.

Jesse Lin

As the guy paying cash at 41, tell him the money part does not get easier but it stops feeling reckless somewhere around the checkride.