Flight Training

Been Nostalgic about the past, today I am going to write about my most memorable training time days.

Our batch was on flight training at IIT-Kanpur. Flight training is where we are flown in aircraft to note down its characteristics of flight. As always, nobody from our class had any special interest in studying. Specially our group consisting of me, Vasu, Ganja (Deepak), Shiv and Danny (Dayanand). Who were more interested in playing “teen patti” instead. We used to spend all our evening and nights in playing “teen patti”. We didn’t had any prize for the winner but a big punishment for the looser was assured. The looser used to get …..lets say “something inexplicably horrible” punishment or had to complete a dare.

First few days, everybody chose “the horrible” but never chose it twice because trust me it was horrible enough not to be disclosed here. The second time we three Ganja, me and Shiv were the looser’s and we chose to do the dare instead. First candidate was me and was given a dare toget a hug from the Chaunkidar. It was around 11:30 in the night and the chaunkidar was sleeping in sitting position on his chair. The rest of the group was watching intently through the windows. I slowly approached the chaunkidar and don’t know what came into my mind, I said “Chankidar bhayia aaj eid hai to mein aapke gale milna chahta hun”. As soon as the chaunkidar heard this, he understood that its an attack on his modesty and he stood up and showed me his “danda”. This was the most embarrassing moment in my life and I just ran back to my room as fast as I can. Everyone was laughing in the window. My dare was not complete. So mine and others dare was postponed to next days morning.

In the morning I was now given a dare to wear sleeveless sweater on sweat shirt and a baggy pyjama. Ganja was given the dare to give single sentence reply every time he is asked about anything; the reply was “Aja pyare pass hamare, kahen ghabrae”. And the most comedy dare was given to Shiv. Shiv was supposed to carry my big large Red suitcase for the whole day. Mind it, this suitcase was the biggest suitcase one can ever have and had a bright red colour. In the morning we three monkeys were ready to be the laughing stock of whole IIT. Nobody took much interest in my cloths as most of the IITians themselves wore such kind of cloths. But Shiv was the talk of the class and IIT, wherever we went. Many classmates asked him why he is carrying the suitcase. But he was not supposed to tell anyone. Even until today some of my classmates don’t know why he was carrying the suitcase that day. Then came the moment when IIT-Professor came to take our class. Our Shiv bhai came into the class with his big suitcase. We were all laughing onto him, the rest of the class started laughing too. Professor kept on watching, and our Shiv bhayia took the last seat of our class, and placed the suitcase on the chairs. After some time while taking our lecture, Professor at last asked Shiv “why is he moving around with suitcase”. Our bold Shiv said “aise hi”. Professor didn’t ask twice. Then we were taken on the ride to wind tunnels. Everyone was loaded onto the jeeps. Our Shiv bhai with his suitcase also joined in. He was sitting with girls and made them whole lot of uncomfortable while we kept on laughing. Then through the whole visit to the wind tunnels and various labs, our Shiv bhai continued his dare. On the other hand our Ganja was replying every question with his one sentence. He was supposed to answer every query by the single sentence. The rest of a class had gala time with him. Luckily he was not questioned by professor.

Remembering those days I still get to laugh sometime on those days of “Our mutual Bachpana” whenever I disscuss them with my friends.

There is a lot more to write about those training days. But I will like to finish this blog here. I will write about the rest sometime.