Someone may enjoy this...just remember I was about 17yrs old.
My first flying job. I heard about the skydiving operation looking for a pilot, so I call the owner/pilot up and ask about it. He tells me I need X hours in X type of plane (I don't have it and never flew an airplane that big). I lie and tell him that happens to be exactly what I have. I'm excited as he tells me to come on down and he will check me out. So I show up and we jump in the plane. I ask him how he would like me to fly this thing (cause I sure as heck don't know) and he really gets into it, telling me just how to run and handle it. Off we go and I fly the airplane around for awhile and then make some touch and goes on this short, bumpy dirt strip. After we stop and shut down the engine he tells me I'm hired and that maybe I could teach him how to fly sometime.....WHAT? I thought this guy was a pilot! Here I am letting him show me how to fly this thing that I know nothing about...and to make it worse, there was only one seat in it.
That's how I got my first flying job and it was a blast. I did give the guy some lessons (3) before I left the outfit. A couple of months later I get a call from a friend who (after seeing this on TV) tells me that some news team heard the owner/non-pilot mentioned above was flying his plane for his operation. The news team went up there and filmed him getting in, flying and getting back out of the plane. The news team then asks him point blank as he is walking away (film still rolling) from the plane if he has a license to fly and he tells them he wasn't flying. I never did find out what happened to him, but I bet he found another pilot quickly.
