Proud moment in my flying career

After dropping off our first round of supplies for a 6000-person tent city being set up by an American church group led by an upstate NY builder (more), it was time to return to Florida from Provo (MBPV) in the Turks and Caicos. We had to pick up more tents and bring them back! I struggled with filling out an ICAO flight plan form. If you work at an airline, this is done by the superbly trained dispatchers who use powerful custom software. If you fly your own plane, you use various free Web services that fill these out and submit them for you. In Provo, you fill it out on paper and it gets faxed over to the tower. You’re supposed to know all kinds of codes for electronics in the plane and survival gear. I hadn’t looked at one of these for nearly two years. A friendly experienced Pilatus PC-12 pilot was standing next to me and graciously answered my questions one at a time. After about the fourth question, without a hint of malice, he asked “Are you a pilot?”