This is great! I laughed so hard at the ...

Before I can give him something simpler to say he keys the mike and says
"REBEL BASE, THIS IS RED 5. WE ARE STARTING OUR ATTACK
RUN ON THE DEATH STAR".

that I almost burst! Sounds like something that one
of my instrument students would say if they ever
thought of it.

My weekend story about the advantage of owning your own airplane:

Having a son in college 478 nautical miles flight line distance that you
can fly in 3 hours, but would take 14 hours to drive, one way. Deciding
on Saturday afternoon that you'd like to attend his band concert Sunday
afternoon and being able to hop in the Aztec Sunday morning, fly over,
have lunch, attend the concert, have dinner, and fly home in time for bed.
And still being able to get to work Monday morning. I'm afraid I just would
not be able to do that last minute type of trip if I were depending on a
weekend
rental airplane when the weather was CAVU.

Ronnie