"Patrick Tilley - Amtrak 1 - Cloud Warrior" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tilley Patrick)

your flight pattern on the downward and return leg will be indicated by
course markers on each level. Lead time will be fifteen degrees of
arc. Points will be deducted for course and altitude deviations, and
-' the Adjudicator paused, '- you'll be flying against the clock.



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Overall flight time will be counted in the final pass mark. Have you
got that?"

'Loud and clear, sir!" 'Okay. You roll on the green in fifteen." The
Adjudicator returned Brickman's salute and walked away towards the
Flight Control Room.

CFI Carrol, a sandy-haired thirty-year-old leatherneck, eyed Brickman
sympathetically. Like all the Academy staff, Carrol was a tough,
demanding instructor but if he had allowed himself to show favour to a
cadet, Brickman would have been the recipient. 'I had a hunch you
might draw the short straw. How do you feel?"

Brickman, now standing at ease, allowed himself a brief non-regulation
shrug. He knew Carrol; he knew he wouldn't pick up on it. 'Someone
has to be first."

CFI Carrol greeted Brickman's reply with an ironic smile. 'Yes, I
guess they have. Okay - you'd better get moving."

Brickman sprang to attention and threw another faultless salute.




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Carrol acknowledged it with what looked like a half' hearted swipe at
a fly on his forehead. Discipline was one thing; saluting another.

Confronted daily for the last five years by zealous cadets his right
arm had often felt as if it was coming off its hinges. 'Good luck."

'Thank you, sir."

'And Brickman -' Brickman froze halfway through a left turn. 'Sir?"

'This is a cruel world. Good guys don't always finish first."