Alex Stone

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Alex Stone grew up in Munster, Indiana. He's been flying since age fourteen and received a Bachelor's Degree in Aviation Science from Western Michigan University. He has worked as a flight instructor and was a "Freight Dog" in the air cargo industry for seven years. In 2009 he released his first novel "Hauling Checks" and in 2018 he released his second novel "CFI! The Book." ...more

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CFI! The Book: A Satirical ...

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Hauling Checks: A Satirical...

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The Quiet Sister

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“A good landing is one that you can walk away from, and a great landing is one were the airplane can be reused again afterwards.”
Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“Training aircraft are treated worse than rental cars; never, ever, buy a used one.”
Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“As a flight instructor, I found that most student pilots have no business being in or anywhere near an airplane. It’s just not for everyone, and the number who actually complete flight school is a very small percentage of those who start. Not all of my students were bad, though. There were a few good ones that showed up on time, read the materials they were assigned, and were teachable.”
Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

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“One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured firepower demonstration, which occured one Sunday morning about three-thirty. For reasons that were never made clear, I blew out my back windows with five blasts of a 12 gauge shotgun, followed moments later by six rounds from a .44 Magnum. It was a prolonged outburst of heavy firing, drunken laughter, and crashing glass. Yet the neighbors reacted with total silence. For a while I assumed that some freakish wind pocket had absorbed all the noise and carried it out to sea, but after my eviction I learned otherwise. Every one of the shots had been duly recorded on the gossip log. Another tenant in the building told me the landlord was convinced, by all the tales he'd heard, that the interior of my apartment was reduced to rubble by orgies, brawls, fires, and wanton shooting. He had even heard stories about motorcycles being driven in and out the front door.”
Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

“In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.”
Ernest K. Gann, Fate Is the Hunter

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