That is what the guard thing on the bottom is for

I remember when I was learning to fly a Cessna and I got the worst instructor... the old dude who owned the flying school (and the planes) and we were doing flapless landings and guess who banged the tail on the ground .... first time ever He wasn't happy

Then, the day I got signed off for my Australian License (with him) on a day blowing about 15 kts he said to take the plane to the gas pumps so I pulled up at the pumps and shut down.... he told me I passed yayyyyy

Then I opened my door and the wind grabbed it and slammed it onto the strut

He started hollering and cussing.... then opened his door and the wind slammed that into his side strut

He was twice as angry then, but couldn't say anything that I did it to my side, coz he did it too ..... no damage anyway

He is the same guy who would take the oil cap off the engine or put a business card on the dipstick before you did a preflight ..... then see if you noticed in the preflight.... then one day he was running late and I was at the plane already and I had taken an old oil filler cap from in the hangar in my pocket because I was going to hassle the instructor I thought was going to be with me.... he said to jump in and he would do a quick preflight (which I had already done) but I noticed he didn't open the engine inspection door to check the oil (which I had done) ..... after I took off I pulled the spare oil cap out of my pocket and said "Oh, shouldn't this be on the engine??"

He nearly shit! He went white.... so I said, "Just kidding"

But strangely, after that, he was a bit strange to me?? Dunno why?

A flight of OH 58s and a couple of Hueys ready for a mass lift off so I rolled a Jesus nut down the flight line and you should of seen most the helicopters shut down ,had to be the ones that did a shitty preflight, The cadre asked why they shouldn't article fourteen me on the spot for the stunt "I saw a few guys slacking off on preflights so I thought a little trust lesson was in order"

They couldn't argue that the shake up fixed the shitty preflight problem. and I got more stick time after that ;I