#147 If Your Engine Quits When You Need It Most
"Although contact with the earth (and maybe also with a cow) was in my very near future, I did have a few seconds to check some things."
"Although contact with the earth (and maybe also with a cow) was in my very near future, I did have a few seconds to check some things."
"Military pilots receive formation training. Good luck finding that at Acme!"
"I once wrote how dangerous assumptions could be. I guess that could be one of the lessons of this little story. But it’s not the main one. The main lesson behind this little story is that anyone can make a mistake. ANYONE. You, me, or any other airman, no matter how skilled. "
"We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: “power, pitch, pitch, power”, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle. It’s called “Multiple Landings”, or just “Multiples”. It’s challenging, difficult… and fun as hell!"
"It’s okay to take chances with your own life, but not with another’s."
"From my very first day as a flight instructor, I have been consumed with inventing and trying out new teaching techniques. These big ideas don’t always work. "
Written 8-2015 I think I first became aware of the possibilities of fireworks before I even got into the airshow business. Art Scholl used to mount fireworks on his Chipmunk…
"I guess I figured that I didn’t want to advertise my occasional skud running or have to answer the question, 'Cessna Eight Four Victor, do you see the terrain ahead?' "
Smoothosity is a condition that every good pilot knows how to exercise. He doesn’t always exercise it, though. Think of the difference between two different drivers as they negotiate the…
"I’d always accepted the existence of Murphy’s Law without giving its origination much thought. But I think it was in reading the autobiography of Joe Kittinger that I may have found out the source."