Now that I'm out of primary I can share a few of the things I (or the IP with me) did during my time in T-34 Land.
Get out to the aircraft on a mid-stage FAM with the Ops-O. Preflight good, get ready to strap in and can't find my right glove. Anywhere. So I end up having to go out to my car and retrieve my other pair of gloves while the IP hangs out by the plane. We get out to the ground run-up and I do the control checks. The IP comes on the ICS and says that if I give full right rudder he can retrieve my glove from his left rudder pedal.
PA-1 doing a practice PEL to an OLF. I line up beautifully! Perfect altitude, wing-tip distance, airspeed, everythings great. I get to my crosswind and I hear the IP on the UHF to the RDO:
IP: "Hey, are we the only ones in the pattern?"
RDO: "Just you"
IP "We're doing a practice PEL in the wrong direction, but we'll take it down to the deck."
Proves the old saying: "If everything is going really well on a flight, you've forgotten something."
During the pre-taxi checklist for a mid-stage fam I call ground and request Taxi clearance. They give it to me and then I hear this from my IP over the UHF.
IP on UHF: "North Whiting Ground, Shooter 123 request back-taxi to the right"
Me on ICS: "Sir, we always taxi to the right from this row."
IP on ICS: "What? We do?"
Me on ICS: "Yes, Sir. The only row that turns left is Echo."
Ground on UHF: "Ummm....Shooter 123, what's your parking spot?"
Me on UHF: "Bravo 23"
Ground on UHF: "Ummm....taxi as requested."
IP on ICS: "F***ing Mondays!"
Finally, on PA-6 (last aerobatic flight with an IP) I get started on my maneuvers and pull into a beautiful loop. About 2/3 of the way through the loop, just as I'm thinking it's going to be perfect, I remember that I'm supposed to be doing a 1/2 Cuban 8. So I start to roll left, remember that the T-34 rolls more efficiently to the right, reverse my roll to the right and then pull back to wings level.