I agree with all of you that disagree with Jim Hankins for the following
reason:

I wanted an airplane - not a test pilot certificate. Mike DeHate had all the
qualifications for the job, I did not. Besides, it's quite usual in this
game to get a check-out by a qualified instructor in an airplane with which
you're not qualified. In fact, there are few, if any, FBO's that will allow
you to jump into say a Mooney if the only thing you have in your logs is
Cessnas.

Let those who ascribe to Jim Hankins' thinking go ahead - nature has a way
of cleaning up the gene pool.

Dan Schaefer