Aviation cliches....
 

You know the kind I'm talking about, here are a few examples...

'Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.'

Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.'

'The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.'

'A smooth touchdown in a simulator is as exciting as kissing your sister.'

'Remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous?'

Nice one Red Flag but do you know any funny ones?

GM, you could always mix them up a bit;

"Kissing your sister is punctuated by moments of stark terror"

"Sex in a simulator enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again"

And so forth.

Sorry RF;)

A David Vine quote from Ski Sunday some years ago, but still totally appropriate ......

Quote:

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Time in the air is time wasted

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The 3 things of least use to a pilot:

Length of runway behind you,
Fuel in the bowser,
A tenth of a second ago.


Good judgement comes with experience, unfortunately experience only comes from bad judgement.

Never pass gas or porcelain.

There was nothing on the clock but the makers name.....and that was covered in blood.

Dad, when i grow up I want to be a pilot. Son, you can do one or the other, but you can't do both.

Never go anywhere that your brain hasn't been 5 minutes beforehand.

'There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing: Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'

'Try never to run out of altitude, airspeed and ideas all at the same time.'

"If in doubt - there is no doubt" (just saw Deniro say it in Ronin)

"Don't assume - Check" - I saw a good wirestrike poster that turned that one around to "Don't check - Assume".


Not a cliche just an old house rule :"Never turn down leave, food or a 19 year old".

"Why was my son doing 600kts when he died?"

"Because the jet wouldn't go any faster, madam".

Isn't that:

What was my daddy doing when he died?

Err, about 600 kts.

How about

"Flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing"

Or

"a good pilot is one with the same number of landings as take off's":cool:

I had always thought that the quote was more like:

"The 3 most useless things in aviation:

Runway behind you,
Fuel in the bowser,
Hours in a Navigators logbook."

The key to being a good aviator is ensuring your bag of experience is full before your bag of luck is empty.

It is better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, than the other way around.

My old instructor (sadly now gone) gave me the following advice when dealing with total engine failure at night ....

Allow the aircraft to descend to 500 feet and switch the landing light on. If you don't like what you see .... switch it back off again.

:D

"Any landing you can walk away from..."

"There are two kinds of pilots. Those who have made a gear up landing and those who will."

"There are old aviators and bold aviators, but no old, bold aviators"

"A good peek says more than a thousand radar sweeps"

(True in a sense, I guess. 'Everything is fine and the air is empty' or 'nice, no CB activity in those clouds over there' IS more than 'aw f***!')

Cheers,
Fred

An old 'n bold instructor on taxying out for my first Hunter T7 convex -- 'Wave goodbye to the marshaller - it may be the last time you see him'

I think the full version goes something like this...

'Airspace above you.
Runway behind you.
Airspeed you don't have.
Fuel in the Bowser.
A Navigator.
Half a second ago.
Approach plates in the car.'

Oh and Ar$ecoat Ops of course...
;)