Best Sayings !!!
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From: Downeast
Don't squat with yer spurs on!
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.
If you realize you are digging yourself into a hole....first thing to do is stop digging.
Even bad guys have good days.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.
If you realize you are digging yourself into a hole....first thing to do is stop digging.
Even bad guys have good days.
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From: very East OZ
Among the many postings scrawled on the wall of the hangar loo at the NT epicentre of mustering in OZ (while doing my slave time a long time ago) was this.
"Once I couldn't even spell engineer and now I are one"
Just joking guys-love your work
That other saying " Just keep your eye on it", was also the standard engineer reply to pilot questions of snags. So much so they created an unofficial company T-Shirt with that very slogan across the back.
"Once I couldn't even spell engineer and now I are one"
Just joking guys-love your work
That other saying " Just keep your eye on it", was also the standard engineer reply to pilot questions of snags. So much so they created an unofficial company T-Shirt with that very slogan across the back.
Cool as a moosp
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From: Mostly Hong Kong
Also known as ARIAs by Uncle Roger of Flight International, (Always Remembered Instructors Advices) were:
From an R22 instructor in Queensland, spoken with a woman's strident Queenies accent, "I don't like going backwards in confined areas" as yours truly was doing same,
And from the same woman, "I don't like flying 40 knots over water" Well remembered advice.
Also from Jimmy Procter of BA whenever there was a weather related accident, "Should have been in the tea bar...".
From an R22 instructor in Queensland, spoken with a woman's strident Queenies accent, "I don't like going backwards in confined areas" as yours truly was doing same,
And from the same woman, "I don't like flying 40 knots over water" Well remembered advice.
Also from Jimmy Procter of BA whenever there was a weather related accident, "Should have been in the tea bar...".
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From: Denver, CO and the GOM
If all you can see through your canopy is the direction you were previously traveling intermingled with dust, and all you can hear is commotion from your co-bubba, things are not at all as they should be.
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From: Denver, CO and the GOM
Using the Cyclic:
If you push the cyclic left, the helicopter goes left.
If you push the cyclic right, the helicopter goes right.
That is, unless you keep pushing the cyclic all the way right, then you will probably go left while the helicopter swaps ends.
If you push the cyclic left, the helicopter goes left.
If you push the cyclic right, the helicopter goes right.
That is, unless you keep pushing the cyclic all the way right, then you will probably go left while the helicopter swaps ends.
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From: Lost in thought
Instrument Flying
From one of our test pilots..."There's no big trick to instrument flying: Just remember to keep the dirty side down." 
"Ask 6 helicopter pilots a question, and you're sure to get at least 7 different opinions."
"Ask 6 helicopter pilots a question, and you're sure to get at least 7 different opinions."
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From: SW England
From a test pilot who obviously didn't subscribe to the "keep-flying-it-to-the-bitter-end" school of thought:
When it's all going horribly wrong and there's nothing else you can do, then unstrap, turn around, drop your trousers and sit on the cyclic. It won't help you, but it'll give the Accident Investigation Branch (or NTSB, or whoever you have in your neck of the woods) something to think about...
When it's all going horribly wrong and there's nothing else you can do, then unstrap, turn around, drop your trousers and sit on the cyclic. It won't help you, but it'll give the Accident Investigation Branch (or NTSB, or whoever you have in your neck of the woods) something to think about...
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From: Gaithersburg, MD
I saw this above the urinal at the FBO in Winchester (OKV) today, and thought it was pretty funny...
ATTN: Pilots
Pilots with short pitot tubes and low manifold pressure, please TAXI UP CLOSE!
ATTN: Pilots
Pilots with short pitot tubes and low manifold pressure, please TAXI UP CLOSE!
Always Remembered Instructors Advices