Truisms
I'll start.
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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The classic for any pilot has to be.......Better to be on the ground wishing you were flying than the other way round!
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
(Post 9765888)
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.
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In the event of an engine failure, we will look forward and crash visually...
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"A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill."
Frank Frederick Borman - Commander Apollo 8 |
There old pilots and there are bold pilots; but there is no such thing as an old bold pilot.
From my QHI in 1985. NEO |
Originally Posted by Nigerian Expat Outlaw
(Post 9765978)
There old pilots and there are bold pilots; but there is no such thing as an old bold pilot.
From my QHI in 1985. NEO |
Gravity sucks.
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Thou shalt maintain thine airspeed least the Ground reach up and smite thee.
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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. |
Death and nurses
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I'll take the nurses every time.
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If during a night forced landing, the landing light shows a terrifying sight, switch it off.
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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!
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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.... |
If it flies, floats or :mad: , rent it.
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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. |
If your wife tells you she won't be a minute, she's probably right...
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Ignore people who spout truisms
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So, Pasta, how do you know my wife?
(The family always says that the inscription on her tombstone will be "I'm nearly ready") |
Italians do it better (everything, that is).
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Pineapple is NOT a pizza topping.
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Vehemently disagree
Pineapple is a pizza topping but only on Hawaiian pizza |
Never forget that three is ALWAYS greater than two – even for very large values of two
God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - δB/δt, curl H = J + δD/δt," and there was light. "That was a great speech, Mr President. Every thinking American will vote for you." "That's not enough. I need a majority." A diplomat is a man who can persuade his wife she would look fat in a mink coat An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic' "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." (Mary Shafer, JPL) Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy |
All complex questions have answers that are simple, easy to understand and wrong
PDR |
All women want to be wanted...they don't all want to be had
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If you frequently get into situations like these two then flying is probably not for you!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...020605copy.jpg Picture hanging at Peppers, Corlette, Port Stephens, NSW, Australia. No photographer's name |
If, at a weekend party in the mess, it seems like a fun or amusing thing to do - it will probably result in uniform pressing and polishing on Monday.
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Having two engines doubles the chance of an engine failure.
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Having two compasses ensures you are not sure where you are going.
Having a nav gives you a chance of knowing where you have been |
If a Diplomat says Yes, they mean Maybe.
If a Diplomat says Maybe, they mean No. And if a Diplomat says No, they're not a Diplomat. |
The only sensible numbers of watches to wear is one, or three.
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>Nothing is more useless than altitude above you, runway behind you, or a tenth of a second ago....<
or fuel in the bowser, or a forecast valid until eight hours ago. |
If you can keep head when all about are losing theirs; they know something you don't.
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When meeting the Admiral's new (second) wife at the cocktail party, 'nice rack' is not the correct way to compliment her lovely dress that is cut to display same, no matter how many cocktails the both of you have had.
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Originally Posted by alwayslookingup
(Post 9766753)
If a Diplomat says Yes, they mean Maybe.
If a Diplomat says Maybe, they mean No. And if a Diplomat says No, they're not a Diplomat. |
Hold my beer and watch this...
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A woman's body is God's greatest masterpiece.
A woman's mind is God's biggest mess. |
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