Might be interesting, probably not. Read it anyway you lazy arsehole.
The RAF section at my old school's CCF used to take us every now and again on Air Experience Flying. This involved us cadets getting in a dual-control training aircraft (one at a time obviously) and them flying us around for a bit.

My turn, I went up with one of those old school pilots; big tache, 50's accent, slightly podgy. He wanted to teach me a bit about flying, so he told me he would increase airspeed and I would trim the aircraft*.
"Fair enough" thinks I, assuming he would increase the throttle gently. So I just nudged the trim wheel very gently fowards.
Meanwhile, the bastard yanks the throttle to full. WOOSH! The nose hurtles upwards and the engine stalls. Now we are falling, downwards, tail first.
"I HAVE CONTROL!" he booms.
Forgetting the calm demo on the safety video, instead of saying "You have control sir", in my stunned state I mumble
"Er...um...yeah alright then"
His annoyance was matched only by his skill in flying, as he forced the joystick fowards, whilst re-starting the engine and eventually landing safely back at base.

In summary:
I failed to trim the aircraft
I almost failed in my attempt not to end up as a mess on the ground but worst of all...
...I failed to address an RAF officer correctly. An RAF officer with a tache.

No apologies for length. I'm just glad to be alive!

*When you increase an aircraft's speed, it gets more lift so the nose lifts up. Some aircraft have a trim wheel that forces the nose back down to a level position.
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Mon 8 Jan 2007, 13:51, Reply)