Follow these simple principles for a quick guide to flying an airplane. Maybe they don’t cover everything, but they’re a start.
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, it gets smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
Flying isn’t dangerous: crashing is.
It’s always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating.
When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky.
The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
A good landing is one from which you can walk away. A great landing is one after which they can use the plane again.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make all of them yourself.
You know you’ve landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival, and vice versa.
Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take-offs you’ve made.
Stay out of the clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another airplane going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
Never let an aircraft take you somewhere your brain didn’t get to five minutes earlier.
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing: unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
If all you can see out of the window is ground that’s going round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the passenger compartment, things are not at all as they should be.
Helicopters can’t fly: they’re just so ugly the Earth repels them.
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
It’s always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible.
Keep looking around. There’s always something you’ve missed.
Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It’s the law and it’s not subject to repeal.
The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, the runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.
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