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Tips for student pilots.
1. Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
2. If you
push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull
the stick back, they get smaller.
3. Flying
isn't dangerous. Crashing is dangerous.
4. It's always better to be down here wishing you were up there
than up
there wishing you were down here.
5. The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
6.
The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep
the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually
watch the pilot start
sweating.
7. When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided
with
the sky.
8. A "good" landing is one from which you can walk away. A "great"
landing is one after which
they can use the plane again.
9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to
make
all of them yourself.
10. You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to
taxi to the
ramp.
11. The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle
of arrival. Large angle
of arrival equals a small probability of
survival -- and vice versa.
12. Never let an airplane take you somewhere
your brain didn't get to
five minutes earlier.
13. Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps
talking about
might be another airplane going in the opposite direction.
14. Reliable sources also report
that mountains have been known to hide
out in clouds.
15. There are three simple rules for making a smooth
landing.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
16. You start 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.
17. Keep
looking around. There's always something you've missed.
18. If all you can see out of the windscreen is
ground that's going
round and round and all you can hear is commotion coming from the
passenger compartment, things
are not at all as they should be.
19. In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going
hundreds
of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the
ground has yet to lose.
20. Good judgment
comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience
usually comes from bad judgment.
21. It's always a
good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as
much as possible.
22. There are old pilots and there are
bold pilots. There are,
however, no old, bold pilots.
23. Remember, gravity is not just a good idea.
It's the law. And it's
not subject to repeal.
24. Always try to keep the number of landings you make
equal to the
number of takeoffs you've made.
25. The three most useless things to a pilot are altitude above
you,
runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.
And a bonus tip:
Helicopters can't fly; they're just
so ugly the earth repels them.
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