simonholt wrote:Apologies if you've already answered this question but I've pondered all possible obvious references and still drawn a blank.
What are puppies? Does it mean a Beagle Pup?
Ah. 2D's will no doubt donk this off to Non-Aviation, but read this quickly before it goes.
I believe that flying should be neat and tidy, even if there is no actual advantage in a particular piece of neatness. An example I often give is landing in the middle of a runway, not off to one side, but the one I most often get teased about is insisting that the propellors of a stationary multi prop should be parallel.
When challenged I have to admit that this is mainly obsessional behaviour, though I do believe that if PPLs are going to progress, either as professionals or as display pilots, they have to take a pride in their flying which is sorely missing from many PPLs.
But if someone is not intending to progress, how do I persuade them that being neat still matters? Well, rather like the bears that jump out when a child treads on the gaps between paving stones, I tell them that Puppies are cruelly tortured and killed if they fly in an unprofessional manner.
So, some flying shortcomings are punished by death, others by cost, but many simply by the knowledge that sweet little innocent Labrador puppies will be brutally murdered.
Did you realy want to know that?