I don't take credit for any of the following, they have just followed me....
Good judgment comes from experience – experience comes from poor judgment.
The chance of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival
Please remember, you now start out 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.
Always fly in the middle of the sky.
Most of the problems happen near the edges.
Nothing happens quickly enough in aviation, unless things are going wrong
You check out a landing site for a helicopter the way you’d check out a woman; the 5 S’s: Suitability, Surroundings, Size, Slope, and Surface