Cloudslider

Hi I came across your post as I also was trying to piece together the 70's era at Casey Field. I got my PPL at Berwick with Groupair when Bill Campell-Hicks was the CFI. I flew quite regularly with Dave Squirrel, John Hewat, K D Moore, Dick Humphey, Rohan Rohnstein, Nick Bauwmeester and others in C150s (KQM, RXV, DFD, KUK, IRQ), C172s (RVG and ROA). I had a throttle linkage failure (jammed full open) on climb to 4000 during on my 2nd flight in PA140 RVU which gave me a lot of confidence in the quality of instruction at Berwick if not the aircraft. Instructions from the office were drop full flap, maintain but do not exceed VFE, return over the top and cut the motor (mags off). I think I had about 2 hours solo at the time and it was very reassuring to have John Hewat wander out to 27 with a fire extinguisher just in case I stuffed up the full glide approach he had taught me (:-