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The four most useless things in aviation:

Fuel you could of put on.

Altitude above you.

Runway behind you.

A flight attendant with a chipped tooth.
 
1. Never run out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas simultaneously.

2. It is better to be lucky... and good.

3. "Flying the -1A is great. You get to be the first to operate a vehicle with thousands of non-redundant supercritical parts that were installed by the lowest bidder."

4. If you crash, at least you'll be the first to arrive at the scene.
 
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull
the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling
the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again

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.

When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky

You know you've landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.

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

Reliable sources report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.

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

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.

Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
 
The best part of a multi-engine aircraft is if one fails the other will surely take you to the scene of the accident.
 
1. Always treat the plane like a woman.....be smooth and easy, with finesse and care.


2. Always treat the plane like a woman......be firm, make it do what you want it to do, tell it where to go.
 
In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
— Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900.


What is the cause of most aviation accidents?:
Usually it is because someone does too much too soon, followed very quickly by too little too late.
— Steve Wilson, NTSB investigator, Oshkosh, WI , August, 1996


There is no problem so complex that it cannot simply be blamed on the pilot.
— Dr Earl Weiner


If the pilot survives the accident, you'll never find out what really happened.
— Doug Jeanes

Mix ignorance with arrogance at low altitude and the results are almost guaranteed to be spectacular.
— Bruce Landsberg, Executive Director of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation

Learning should be fun. If you don't have fun in aviation then you don't learn, and when learning stops, you die.
— Pete Campbell, FAA

A 10 cent fuse will protect itself by destroying the $2,000 radio to which it is attached.
— Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca'

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.
— Stephen Coonts
 
Don't be a jerk to your wife/girlfriend/significant other and take out your frustrations on her. She doesn't deserve to put up with that crap along with all the rest of it.
 
Go to OPRAH, go to OPRAH!

Whoops...sorry 'bout that. Had a flashback to my stint on Jerry Springer...
 
You won't see me on Oprah whining that I no longer get to live in my 29 bedroom house. I'm just saying y'all should be grateful if you have a good woman at home who supports your career. Notice I said GOOD WOMAN; there's a big difference between a money grabbing woman and a GOOD WOMAN who stands by her man regardless of the $$$ he's bringing in.
 

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