Posted: 9/5/2014 12:37:36 AM EDT
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A good simulator check ride is like a successful surgery on a dead body.
Asking a pilot what he thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs. An airline pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when flying, and about flying when he's with a woman. The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as a copilot, is a copilot who once was a captain. Experience is gained through making mistakes. Mistakes are caused by a lack of experience. Hand-flying an ILS in a gusty crosswind is easier than adjusting the shower controls in a layover hotel. A smooth touchdown in a simulator is as exciting as kissing your sister. Most airline crew food tastes like warmed-over chicken because that's what it is. Everything is accomplished through teamwork until something goes wrong . . . . . then one pilot gets all the blame. Standard checklist practice requires pilots to read to each other procedures used every day, and recite from memory those which are only needed once every five years. An FAA investigation is conducted by a few non-flying experts who take six months to itemize the mistakes made by a crew who had six seconds to react to the emergency. I'm not a Pilot, but have several friends that are....just thought this was kinda good. Any "barstoolers" out there probably got the same email. |
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An FAA investigation is conducted by a few non-flying experts who take six months to itemize the mistakes made by a crew who had six seconds to react to the emergency. This one is very true and it's worth every minute they spend doing it. What happened in those six seconds is usually preceded by six hundred or six thousand seconds of somebody doing something he wasn't supposed to do. |
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Well on that note, takeoffs are optional, landings are not. Quoted:
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Keeping your successful landing to takeoff ratio 1/1 is strongly recommended. Well on that note, takeoffs are optional, landings are not. Sure they are. You have the option of landing or crashing. |
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Keeping your successful landing to takeoff ratio 1/1 is strongly recommended. Well on that note, takeoffs are optional, landings are not. Sure they are. You have the option of landing or crashing. I haven't seen any wreckage in the sky. It's really just a subcategory of landing. |
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You can never have too much fuel....unless yer on fire...
There is Nothing more dangerous than two CFI's in one airplane. "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." There's nothing more useless than the air above you, runway behind you or the fuel left behind at the airport. "In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks." — Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900. Here's a good Churchill quote that I just found. "The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement." — Sir Winston Churchill, 'In The Air,' Thoughts and Adventures, 1932. video showing the Paul Mantz crash: 
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