Both FAA and JAA define criterions for instructors and examiners to judge a landing. Some instructors also developped an unofficial scale, with five different grades…
1 – That wasn’t a landing; that was an arrival. Check your ELT.
2 – You going to log all of those?
3 – Average. I could do better with my eyes closed.
4 – I’ve seen better; just can’t remember when.
5 – Marvelous, ace. Couldn’t do better myself.
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Vincent Lambercy is a Swiss private pilot now living in Germany. He holds a private pilot certificate with single-engine, multi-engine and instrument ratings and has logged more than 430 hours of flight.
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“You going to log all of those?”
I laughed out loud at that one. I suppose I’m lucky no one has said it to me.
In the same vein comes the following exchange, (hypothetically) heard at a military airbase open to civil traffic, between a student pilot and a controller, after the student flown lots of circuits for training:
“TWR: NXXX, how many more landings do you plan ?”
“NXXX: Don’t know yet, why ?”
“TWR: We’re preparing your bill, it’s presently 4325789453 dollars”
“NXXX: The next one will be the last one”