The guy at Grand Forks FSS had a tough time pronouncing “Beulah” — I can’t even phonetically imitate it here for you, the way he mangled it. Repeatedly..So, I will blame him for the awful job I did in going completely off course once we started flying across Lake Sakakawea. I have a tremendous fear [...]

The moment of gestalt happened with a piece of paper. “I don’t understand some things about VOR…” My voice trailed off. I didn’t feel like I even knew enough to formulate a decent question, and I hate just saying, essentially, “I don’t get it.” I was sitting with my instructor, Mark Scheele, across the desk, [...]