I was thinking about David for the last few days.  I wondered what he was doing.  He was a flight instructor at Volunteer Aviation and gave me a few stage checks and instruction flights during that time.  He was encouraging and I enjoyed flying with him.  He will be missed.  



When my Christmas card was returned this year, I wondered if Dave was okay.  Now that all the craziness of the holiday season is over, I decided to google him and found his obituary.  It truly saddened me.  
David Hiltz was my pilot friend, flight instructor, and flight examiner over several years.  He was one heck of a pilot.  He still had a passion for flying after all the years he had flown.  He helped me through several ratings and always had confidence in me when I didn't have confidence in myself.  He always had encouraging words when I needed them most.  I'll always remember and appreciate him for that.  
Dave always had a good joke to put a smile on your face.  He had some pretty interesting stories as well.  He was always an inspiration.
Rest in peace my friend.   "Hold that back pressure!"
Lisa Yount   

My former father-in-law David E. Hiltz and I kept in touch over the passing years via email and greeting cards.  He and I had being pilots in common.  So, whenever I saw something about P51-D series WWII airplanes, I would email him about it.  He liked to send me emails having jokes and things that made you laugh.  Occasionally, I would call him by phone.   However, in the last couple of years, his phone kept ringing without anyone answering.   The emails that I sent to him must have reached their destination but with no response.   Then today, something told me to look up John Alexander Hiltz from Powell, TN.   This is how I discovered the obituary for David E. Hiltz,  my old buddy.  Here is a poem pilots like.     
                                                High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.   Roger that my dear friend.  Jill Elaine

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