A new pilot to the area, Mark Fink, who is a biwingual instructor, got a chance to fly his silk today. Along with some other first timers, and beginner pilots.

Going along with the fun time, I came up with a few funny thoughts( along with some other instructor friends of mine) for us to reflect on.

You /your student may be in the PANIC Zone if:

1. you are kissing the ground upon landing.

2. Glad that you wore your brown pants.

3. your knuckles returns to normal color, the following day.

4. In flight, the yell curls your instructors hair.

5. You need to replace your downtubes before you land because of your grip.

6. If you need assistance getting out from under the wreckage.

7. You can see the whites of the eyes of the squirrel in the top of that tree.

8. At the end of the big hill you still arent flying.

9. In flight, you have 0 airspeed, and your looking straight up at the pretty clouds above.

10. On a XC flight at 200 ft, you see the only landable field has an electric fence running down the middle of it.

11. As you are slip diving onto final, you notice the streamers below showing that you are landing------downwind.

12. You have accidentally gotten whited out, the vario is screaming up, and you hear a plane or helicopter.

13. You are playing at cloudbase, you look below and see everyone else diving for the LZ, then you hear thunder.

14. You look in the rear view mirror while chasing the wind, and see a 17 foot object going end over end down the highway and getting run over by the semi-truck behind you.

15. You find that the only place to land is on the other side of a pond, but you must first fly under two crossing tree limbs at the entrance to this pond.

16. You start your takoff run and halfway down the slope you realize you're not hooked in but your passenger is.

17. You start praying to God for the first time in a very long time.

18. On a XC flight, whited out in cloud suck, you exit inverted in a spin.

19. At 100 ft you make your steep final approach over 20,000 volt high tension lines, into the only landable 'short' field and see, while flaring, an electric fence running across the middle of it. Oh yah, your glider is a Swift without landing gear, because front skid was ripped off during tow.