PandA Povenmire & Associates Aviation Safety Consultants Training Design, Evaluation and Instruction

A Pilot's Career

Words by King Povenmire to the tune of "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me" (from HEE HAW)

Chorus:
Gloom, Despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery.
If it warn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
Gloom despair and agony on me. 

I am a student pilot and that is plainly seen.
I know of lift and gravity and everything between.
Next year I'll fly the airlines by Boeing I am smitten.
Tomorrow I'll go down again and try and pass the written.

Chorus:

I got my private pilot in 40-hours - - PLUS!?
We now can visit Grandma without the Greyhound Bus.
I got my wife to go along,  It was a clever stunt.
It worked until we had to cross a double occluded front.

Chorus:

Now I am a commercial pilot of the ranks.
Fly from sun-to-sun now without a word of thanks.
Sloggin' through the snow and ice to make an ETA.
I get there just in time to hear (spoken)
     "Hold south of the VOR, Maintain 7000,
     Expect further clearance on Tuesday."

Chorus:

I've been a flight instructor about a-hundred years.
Worked with student pilots to get between their ears.
Taught 'em how to bank and turn and how to fly the wing.
I taught 'em all I know and Durn they still don't know a thing.

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