DURING MY FIRST WEEK ON THE JOB as chief instructor at Air Venture Flight Center, the office administrator was helping me get the lay of the paperwork land when she opened the drawer of a large filing cabinet. "This is where you put the logbooks of the people who took flights with us, then never returned to finish their rating," she said. I was shocked and a little saddened by that drawer of lonely logbooks, representing perhaps 40 to 50 people who would never become pilots. My precious logbooks are kept in the safe when not in use, right along with my college diploma and my children's birth certificates. It blew my mind that someone would make the time commitment and financial investment in flight training, then just walk away with nothing.
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