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Life:
You start life with a bag full of luck and an empty sack of experience. The trick in life is to fill the experience sack before you empty the luck bag.
Corollary 1: good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Corollary 2: Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Only two bad things can happen to you:
1. You wake up knowing this is your last day.
2. You wake up not knowing this is your last day.
Aviation:
Nothing is more useless than altitude above you, runway behind you, or a tenth of a second ago.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
In a two-seat aircraft, the other seat is always occupied by an idiot trying to kill you.
There are three simple rules for making a consistently smooth landing. Sadly, no one knows what they are.
Life:
You start life with a bag full of luck and an empty sack of experience. The trick in life is to fill the experience sack before you empty the luck bag.
Corollary 1: good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Corollary 2: Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Only two bad things can happen to you:
1. You wake up knowing this is your last day.
2. You wake up not knowing this is your last day.
Aviation:
Nothing is more useless than altitude above you, runway behind you, or a tenth of a second ago.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
In a two-seat aircraft, the other seat is always occupied by an idiot trying to kill you.
There are three simple rules for making a consistently smooth landing. Sadly, no one knows what they are.
If you can't hover you're _____________ (fill in the blank)
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Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
when I'm right no-one remembers, when I'm wrong no-one forgets.
Metmans epitaph.
If you have your back to the wind and low pressure is on your left ......... you are in the northern hemisphere. Aide to baby navigators.
Metmans epitaph.
If you have your back to the wind and low pressure is on your left ......... you are in the northern hemisphere. Aide to baby navigators.
I'll take the nurses every time.
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The inexperienced press on, while the more experienced turn back to rejoin the most experienced who never set off in the first place!
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Cyclic35,
A professional pilot is one who uses his skill and experience to get himself out of holes which they should have stopped him getting himself into in the first place....
A professional pilot is one who uses his skill and experience to get himself out of holes which they should have stopped him getting himself into in the first place....
, rent it.
"Mildly" Eccentric Stardriver
If you have your back to the wind and low pressure is on your left ......... you are in the northern hemisphere. Aide to baby navigators.