(copied from the noticeboard at Plaistows)
Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger, if you pull it back they get smaller. (Unless you keep pulling the stick back - then they get bigger again)
Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
Speed is life, altitude is insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky.
It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great' landing. It's one after which you can use the aeroplane another time.
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
Always remember you fly an aeroplane with your head, not your hands. Never let an aeroplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
You know when you have landed with your wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.
A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion. Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Trust your captain.... but keep your seatbelt securely fastened.
Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
There are three simple rules to making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
Remember, you're always the student in an aeroplane.
Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold, pilots!
Gravity never loses -- the best you can hope for is a draw.
The three most useless things to a pilot, runway behind you, altitude above you and fuel on the ground.
If you can add anything to the above please email to: j.lord@shadowowners.flyer.co.uk
This page last updated: 20th July 99
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