“Fly Like An Eagle!”🤗 My Actifit Report Card: June 15 2026

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“Fly Like An Eagle!”🤗
“Your Ready Silvertop!”😊
Hmmm………………….😳
David my Flight instructor, always dressed professionally with a button up shirt and tie…………
Today he looked like he had just come from his University of Cincinnati graduation ceremony. He ranked top of his class………he Graduated “Maga Cum Laude”!😇
We were practicing “Touch and Go’s”………….
Takeoffs, then landing, then back up again, to get in several more practice landings!😊
Then David instructed me to take him back to the FBO and park the aircraft.
“Silvertop shut down the engine…..but stay here in the cockpit!”☺️
Another man dressed just as professionally, climbed into the cockpit of my Piper Cherokee cruiser 140, he was carrying a clipboard…………..
“So your David’s student, if David says your ready….. your ready!”😇
“Depart, and take me North towards the “Blue Ash” airport, heading 015, climb and maintain an altitude of 3,000 feet!☺️
Silvertop didn’t see this coming…………..
I had a federal aviation Flight Examiner sitting in the right seat of my Aircraft!
This was to be my Private Pilot Check Ride!😊
When I had the “Blue Ash airport” in sight, the examiner told me to abort my landing, and to follow a different heading!
“Silvertop, let’s put you “Under the Hood” for a few minutes!”😇
“Under the Hood”, is a solid plastic visor placed over your face, that completely blocks your vision of “Outside”!😳
“Silvertop fly a 360 degrees circle, then roll out level at a heading of 175 degrees, and continue to maintain 3,000 feet!”
I was flying completely by “instruments” ONLY now!……………..😮
“OK Silvertop, now remove your hood and take me home!”😊
I removed the hood that blocked my outside vision.
Right below us, was a 315 foot tall 1/3 replica of the Eiffel Tower. It is the centerpiece for the Kings Island amusement park just north of Cincinnati!
The I 71 highway, runs right along side this very large amusement park, and runs North to South.
Flying South, and following this highway for less than ten minutes, took us directly back to our home Airport!
“Lunken tower, I am on a three mile straight in approach, landing full stop from the North!”☺️
“Congratulations Silvertop, you just earned your wings!”🤗
48 years ago today June 15 1978 Silvertop became a licensed Pilot!🥳
Till tomorrow Mike😊

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