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Sad News

In Social Life on January 21, 2025 at 8:39 pm
Receiving my Malaysian PPL from Captain Singh

Dear Captain Singh,

I have heard, with profound sadness, that you have done your last take off. My heartfelt condolences to your family. 

I don’t know what you believed in, but if there is a God and if he is just, you will get to fly any airplane you want, there will be no maintenance schedules, no license renewals and the weather will always be CAVOK. 

In fact, I think you will open a flight school and teach the angels how to fly properly. 

Only recently I thought of contacting you to get my Malaysian PPL renewed. This will not happen anymore. It shows, that there is no time to waste chasing ones dreams the way you have lived yours.

Your grateful student
Ingo

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Ground School

In Flight Training on January 15, 2025 at 8:52 pm

I enjoyed the first two days of ground school at Laminar Aviation. Why is it that one enjoys things like learning more when one gets old and does not really need it anymore?

On the first day our little group of students (2 new and 2 license conversions) got an orientation from Brian, the Chief Ground School Instructor, and a thorough briefing of the Safety Management. System of Laminar. The latter was done by Alison. The briefing was of a scope and quality I would have expected from a much bigger company. They take this stuff very seriously at Laminar.

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