*Aviation Axioms* · *No matter what else happens, fly the airplane. Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity.*
· *It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.* - *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.* - *A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.* - *Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky!* - *Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.* - *Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.* - *"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.* - *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 back-then they get bigger again.)* - *Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.* - *The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.* - *Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first!* - *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.* - *The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.* - *IFR: I Follow Roads.* - *A Marine knows he’s landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.* - *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.* - *Helicopters can't really fly—they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.* - *Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink from a dirty glass.* - *Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The airspeed you don't have.* - *Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.* - *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.* - *An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.* - *Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.* - *There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.* - *It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.* - *Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.* - *A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.* - *A pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.* - *The last thing an Air Force pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.* - *Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.* - *Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.* - *You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.* - *Be wary when someone says, "Let me show you something"* - *If an airplane crashes and doesn't catch fire it is usually out of gas.* - *Flying at night improves your hearing, that explains night noises.* - *Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. * - *Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed. * - *You can't rewrite the laws of aerodynamics.* - *There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold, pilots! * - *The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat. * - *Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is. * - *If something doesn't seem right it probably isn't.* - *The difference between a fighter pilot and a pig? A pig doesn't sit at a bar until 0300 waiting to pick up a fighter pilot.* *=* __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
