If you're a private pilot or an airline transport pilot, it doesn't take long to discover that the "small world" axiom is very true within the aviation community. A relationship developed years earlier can resurface in the most unlikely places. Because of that, I was given advice to never burn a bridge in my climb up the airline ladder. The line boy that topped off the Cessna 150 in subzero temperatures when I was a wet-behind-the-ears, pimply faced flight instructor might someday become my chief pilot.
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