You know you can’t depart with contaminated wings—but what if you’re almost certain it will just blow off? And you have thousands of feet to abort if it’s not happening as expected? And you just watched almost the same airplane—but a version with less horsepower—depart with no issues whatsoever?
David Gagliardi
After 10 years of recreational flying David went pro in flight instruction, charter, scheduled freight, and aerial forest fire suppression. After 17 years of fire bombing, he moved over to Transport Canada as a Flight Operations Inspector before retiring in 2022. Throughout his career he has remained an active instructor, teaching introductory aerobatics, seaplane flying, formation flying, gliding, warbird checkouts, and teaching other flight instructors. He enjoys flying his Nanchang CJ6A. His wife also occasionally lets him fly her Grumman AA1B.
