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...quick (wink-wink) logbook entry say, an hour? I pay cash."
I agreed to meet him but on my turf--literally a grass runway--and on my terms. "Excellent," he exclaimed. "I'll get 'em to pull out the Mooney." By the sound of the car horns in the background, I gathered he'd simultaneously tried to end the call and reverse course on the freeway. I briefly wondered if it'd be unethical to present his widow with an invoice for the IPC at the funeral.
Not the Old 61.57
Instrument Proficiency Checks (IPC), like VFR flight reviews, are aviation's Kabuki theater. Mixed cultural metaphors aside, they're stylized pieces wherein instructor and client go through the motions of realigning the administrative stars to restart the currency timer.
Useful, perhaps, but often more ritual than education and frequently dull. What's often lost in instrument experience is...
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