94-yr old CFI

vincent p. norris wrote in message . ..
Ya just gotta love NPR... ;-)

Pleased to hear you say that, Jay. Most of my conservative friends
hate it, won't listen to it, because (they say) it's "liberal."

vince norris

I check in from time to time to keep up with who is victum of the
week. With hundreds of channels on the air all day and all night it
does need a bit over the top to for NPR to still receive involuntary
contributions from all of us though.

I check in from time to time to keep up with who is victum of the
week.

A famous editor said it's the media's job to comfort the afflicted and
afflict the comfortable. A pretty good statement of the reason for the
First Amendment.

With hundreds of channels on the air all day and all night it
does need a bit over the top to for NPR to still receive involuntary
contributions from all of us though.

Well, most of the other broadcast and print media receive our
involuntary contributions, too, so fair is fair, I guess.

vince norris

Well, most of the other broadcast and print media receive our
involuntary contributions, too, so fair is fair, I guess.

I know I'm a bit late getting back to this thread, Vince, but you'll be
pleased to know that we are now "under-writing" our local public radio
station, WSUI. (That's what they call "advertising"...)

I get most of my news from NPR, with a smattering of other talk radio, two
newspapers, and Yahoo News thrown in the mix. NPR, although occasionally
biased against conservatives, is an essential part of my day, and I put my
money where my mouth is.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Dan Luke" writes:

NPR continued its above-the-rest quality aviation reporting this morning
with this story:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/fea...e_1545986.html
Nice of them to include flying links on the page, too.

Evelyn is an amazing person. Did you see the very nice writeup in
_Flight Training_ a couple of years back when she went to Oskosh? The
captain of the (commercial) flight she was on discovered her name
on the passenger manifest -- and not only made a PA announcing her
presence (and noting that she had been his first flight instructor),
but also arranged for a (literal) red carpet to be brought out
to the airplane when it landed.

I lived for many years in East Tennessee, and for a while would
occasionally fly up to Morristown after dark to see Evelyn.

One of my goals that I never met before leaving the area was to become
qualified as a glider instructor; my intent was to give Evelyn (at my
expense) some glider lessons so that my logbook would be among the very
few in existence to reflect the giving to her of instruction in an
aircraft in which she was not qualified.

Joe Morris

I had my PPL checkride with "Miss Evelyn" in 1983. I thought she was about
100 years old back then. Unlike most folks, I didn't especially care for her
(yes, I passed). But my hat's off to anybody that's still doing what they
want to do after nearly a century.

Steve Robertson
N4732J 1967 Beechcraft A23-24 Musketeer

Dan Luke wrote:

NPR continued its above-the-rest quality aviation reporting this morning
with this story:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/fea...e_1545986.html
Nice of them to include flying links on the page, too.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

I took my IFR check ride in January of 2003 from Evelyn, while the verbal was
realatively easy (scored a 94 on my written, and I was told that this is
typical) the flight exam was not.

From my notes I wrote the evening after the exam, I wrote:

On the Morristown LDA approach, about 3 miles from the LEABS intersection,
Evelyn failed both my H.S.I and the Artificial Horizon. At that point I
realized that I did not have my second NAV set up for the JXT ADF. I quickly
set that unit up but this distracted me enough as to begin descent about 30
seconds after the FAF. However, I was able to get the airplane down and the
actual ADF approach went well.
I thought having that type of failure at that particular time was really a
tough scenario, I thought I handled it well and that I was going to hear, "nice
work Mark".
But rather I heard "I'm not going to fail you because you delayed your decesnt
at FAF.
It was an excellent experience, and feel lucky to have Evelyn perform the test
on a test that I really worked hard to pass.

Mark

Steve Robertson writes:

I had my PPL checkride with "Miss Evelyn" in 1983. I thought she was about
100 years old back then. Unlike most folks, I didn't especially care for her
(yes, I passed). But my hat's off to anybody that's still doing what they
want to do after nearly a century.

Evelyn is not, and never has been, someone who ignores errors. I suspect
that she would be a very bad politician, in that she has her high
standards and isn't willing to apply lower standards to anyone she
evaluates...and isn't hesitant about providing the evaluation in
no uncertain terms.

It's not always a pleasant experience for the recipient, although
I suggest that it is educational.

Although I never talked to her about it, I suspect that she got her
attitude from her first flight instructor, Elmer Wood. Elmer was
a gen-you-ine barnstormer who taught students (inlcuding Evelyn) in
the WWII Civilian Pilot Training program...and he was one of those
pilots who when they flew, the aircraft would *never* think of doing
anything that Elmer didn't want it to do.

One attribute that Evelyn didn't acquire from Elmer was a disdain for
the finer points of the CARs (now FARs); the title character in _The
Great Waldo Pepper_ reminds me of Elmer. I was terrified of him the
first time we met -- his signature is on the fourth line of my first
logbook -- but over the years we flew together several times and I
learned just how good a pilot, instructor, and friend he could be.

Although to the best of my knowledge they never met, I would think
that Evelyn and the late Grace Hopper (aka "Amazing Grace") would find
their personalities to be quite similar. (There might be some interesting
arguments too...)

I don't know if the NPR program mentioned it, but back in the (mid?)
1970s Evelyn was a participant on the TV quiz show "To Tell the Truth".
She was the one required to answer panelists' questions truthfuly,
but at this distance I cannot recall if the panel correctly identified
her.

Joe Morris

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
NPR continued its above-the-rest quality aviation reporting this morning
with this story:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/fea...e_1545986.html
Nice of them to include flying links on the page, too.

Who signed her off? Wilbur or Orville?