On a serious note, something as simple sounding as this, could very well
have been the straw that broke the camel's back (in a chain of errors) and
gotten me....well....very dead.

Sorry for the dark cloud but it's true and real,

Yes, very true, very real. During preflight, my acro CFI told me a story of
a guy in a Pitts that keeps a bent quarter around. Evidently, he went to
recover from a spin, tried to apply full opposite rudder but the rudder
pedal doesn't go beyond neutral. Enough force was applied to the rudder
pedals to bend the quarter. IIRC, the quarter had worked its way into the
tail section and lodged in a most inappropriate place.

I emptied my pockets, put everything in my flight bag (in the C-172 staying
on the ramp).

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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