Guest Posted February 26, 2015 Report Posted February 26, 2015 Ryan: All well and good, but for me the thrill of flight doesn't actually have anything to do with all the gadgetry I put in my cockpit. The thrill starts, for me, on the take off roll. The realization doesn't hit me until I have stopped cleaning up and checking everything after TOC. Look around and wonder......... Wow!! And at 150 knots too!! For me, the gadgetry is all about one thing and one thing only - helping me put the aircraft in the right place so that I can land safely. That's it. When I feel the need to enhance my chances of doing that under situations I have allowed (through planning good and bad) and I have the money for it, I will get it. Until then, I simply look forward to "taking the runway and lining up." No time for envy. Just for wonder. Ned, We should do an engine upgrade, your cruise numbers are off a bit!! Clarence Quote
John Pleisse Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 Can someone translate the last one from Texan to English? Clarence It's "what"....got to be care-few-ell when quoting. Changed the original post for your discerning edification. Quote
Guest Posted February 27, 2015 Report Posted February 27, 2015 It's "what"....got to be care-few-ell when quoting. Changed the original post for your discerning edification. I suspected as much, but you just never know! Clarence Quote
Ned Gravel Posted February 28, 2015 Report Posted February 28, 2015 Ned, We should do an engine upgrade, your cruise numbers are off a bit!! Clarence Shhhh!!! Quote
HRM Posted March 7, 2015 Report Posted March 7, 2015 We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick falls across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance. ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night Quote
RobertoTohme Posted March 19, 2015 Report Posted March 19, 2015 When conditions aren't right, remember, there are no emergency takeoffs... Quote
320KPH Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 you can never have too much fuel in an airplane.... until the fire starts... Quote
HRM Posted March 25, 2015 Report Posted March 25, 2015 Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward—Vernon Law Not quite aimed at aviation, but very much appropriate. Quote
Htwjr Posted March 26, 2015 Report Posted March 26, 2015 When I was younger my uncle who was a pilot told me "Son if it floats, flies or frigs rent it." I am 0 for 3 following his advice. Quote
Jeff_S Posted March 27, 2015 Report Posted March 27, 2015 I've never owned a boat, but have had two wives and three airplanes. Does that make me 0 for 5? 1 Quote
Yooper Rocketman Posted March 28, 2015 Report Posted March 28, 2015 Any landing you can walk away from is a "good landing". A landing where you can still use the plane again is a "great landing". During a debate years ago between the "twin advocates" and us lowly SEL pilots as our mercy flight organization was about to buy our first plane there was a clear separation in the group except one United captain who didn't care either way. One of the other twin guys says, "Bob, wouldn't you rather have a twin flying a night time medical flight than a single?" Bob answered "Anytime I flying and not being shot at, I'm pretty happy." (He flew in Nam). Bob Tice / RIP And a couple favorites from my flight instructor, Jerry Dahl; While he was teaching his wife to fly into their home airport, built on a hill, and looked like you were landing on a aircraft carrier (70' drop off one end, 110' drop off the other, and 2,000' runway). On final he's telling her "you need to get higher".........."you need to get HIGHER"........"YOU NEED TO GET HIGHER!!!" She says "WHY" He says "BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO GET DIRT IN OUR EYES!!!" He told her to get another instructor or it was going to ruin their marriage. And his last but my favorite during my instrument training; "You don't HAVE to accept what the controller is giving you. Remember, when it's all said and one, he's going home for supper, whether you die or not". A friend I mentored to getting his PP and IFR before graduating from high school went on ATC School and flying for the regionals while waiting to get an ATC job. He said "when the pilot screws up, the pilot dies, when the controller screws up, the PILOT DIES". Quote
RobertoTohme Posted April 1, 2015 Report Posted April 1, 2015 I've never owned a boat, but have had two wives and three airplanes. Does that make me 0 for 5? +1! Quote
BKlott Posted April 3, 2015 Report Posted April 3, 2015 I've never owned a boat, but have had two wives and three airplanes. Does that make me 0 for 5? Two wives???????? You didn't learn after the first one?! Quote
Sabremech Posted April 6, 2015 Report Posted April 6, 2015 "How do you make a million $'s in aviation? Start with two million!" Quote
ryoder Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you Quote
Bob_Belville Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you A good one, "The Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot (I appeal again for attribution, sometimes it makes the quote.) 1 Quote
cliffy Posted April 12, 2015 Report Posted April 12, 2015 "West with the Night" One of the best books ever written. From the movie "Mad Mad World" - "What's a behind you no a count!" 1 Quote
ryoder Posted April 15, 2015 Report Posted April 15, 2015 "Keep the pointy side forward, the dirty side down, and please, stay out of the trees" John King Quote
ryoder Posted April 15, 2015 Report Posted April 15, 2015 "Does that mean I fail?" Unknown checkride student Quote
whiskytango Posted April 28, 2015 Report Posted April 28, 2015 Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory. 1 Quote
DXB Posted May 19, 2015 Report Posted May 19, 2015 “What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger." Charles Lindbergh Quote
HRM Posted May 25, 2015 Report Posted May 25, 2015 Flashlights are tubular metal containers, kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries. Quote
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