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Shirt Tails 2010-03-18
There has been a long tradition in aviation related to cutting off the shirt tails of newly soloed student pilots. One story has it that the practice began because of the student need to clean his goggles. Pilots had scarves to use in keeping their goggles clean but the student had to use a shirt tail. The cutting of the shirt tail was giving the student the symbolic scarf of a pilot. Comment		External Links  Recent articles Private Pilot Legality License in possession BR Current medical BR Flight review or additional rating ... Communication, ATC & Radar Acknowledgment and compliance BR Uses appropriate ATC procedures BR Emergency and NORDO procedure BR Practice and performance BR Maintains U ... Emergency Trim Use If the elevator is locked as with a control lock the use of trim will be backwards Any use of the trim will be as an... 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