From my first flying lesson all through my flying career, the one thing I never wanted to do was to die by being stupid. I never asked them, but my flying students and charter passengers no doubt felt the same way. I soon noticed as I grew older and grew a brain how most of us walk through life with our heads buried halfway up our rears. Proof of that are the many stupid drivers you see on the roads. You can’t act that way flying a plane.
The few times I came close to buying the farm was never through ...