Post by Thalgin on Oct 21, 2007 15:41:06 GMT -8
A check ride ought to be like a mini skirt, short enough to be interesting
but just long enough to cover everything.
Contrary to what you have been taught, always remember you fly an airplane
with your head........ not your hands.
"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand still
clinched around he microphone.
Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first!
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are......
Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one
from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a
'great' landing. It's one after which you can USE the airplane another
time.
It's a d**n good landing if you can still get the doors open.
If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing
lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see..... turn'
em back off.
Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your
takeoffs.
Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with
he
sky!
Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't arrive at 5
minutes earlier.
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger; if you pull
the stick back, they get smaller.......Unless you keep pulling the stick
all the way back.......then they get bigger again......
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
Those who hoot with the owls by night should not fly with the
eagles by day.
A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and
round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to
become random in motion.
Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
Rick Michalena says, "A good simulator check ride is like successful
surgery
on a corpse."
Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what
it thinks about dogs.
Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.
The friendliest flight attendants are those on the trip home.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on
all those darn trips.
It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up
there wishing you were down here.
Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.
The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a
copilot who once was a captain.
Any attempt to stretch your fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.
A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's
flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can
handle.
Contrary to what most Airline captains believe, you cannot propel yourself
forward by patting yourself on the back.
It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. First, you start with a
large fortune.