About thirty years ago I read an add in the pennysaver, “learn to fly cheap”.
I called and it was a young man who’d just graduated Emery Riddle and offered to teach cheaply.
I met him at the local donut shop on a Saturday and after talking a few hours we went to Stuart Airport and went flying over to Indiantown airport.
A most perfect privately owned airstrip with a crumbling trailer for an office. I went in for a coke and there was a poster there labeled the Ten Biggest lies in Aviation.
#1, Hi, I’m from the gub mint and I’m here to help.
Got my ticket and have been avoiding F.A.A. and any other gub mint types ever since.
You are a wise man!
The ATF has been forever a rogue agency. That was true at Waco and, from what I’m seeing, is still true today.