Glyn should have some doozies for us...
Never flew mil AC, but have had a little fun once or twice.
Once was practicing departure stalls under the hood with a junior high student in the back seat. I forgot to slow down on entry and ended up doing a nice hammerhead instead of the stall. The poor kid wasn't impressed, but my instructor was.
Once decided to race a rain squall back to my home airstrip. Didn't want to pay for the extra time to let it pass before I landed. Dumb. The race was a tie, and just as the mains touched I lost all visibility. I tapped the brakes to slow down and found myself skidding sideways down the runway at 60kts. Straightened out and rolled out all the way to the other end of the strip before I could bring up the courage to turn onto the taxiway.
Once was on short final (about 50' agl) and a xwind kicked me over to the taxiway where a Grumman Widgeon was waiting at the hold line for me to land. It was an oh-sh!t moment where I stomped left rudder and hard left aileron to get back on line, the Widgeon pilot's eyes were somewhat saucer-like.
Then there was the time when the controller at Tacoma Narrows airport cleared me to land just as a Citabria was taking off. I was turning from the 45 to downwind when the controller notified me of the traffic, which by then was about 100 feet below me to my right and in a climbing turn directly at me. A quick evasive maneuver, and I dryly notified the tower that the traffic was not a factor.
