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"What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery." - Wilbur Wright, 1902
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
"Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up." - Walter Cunningham, 'The All-American Boys,' 1977."
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." - Antoine de Saint Exup?ry, 'Wind, Sand, and Stars,' 1939"
"I've never seen an airplane yet that can read the type ratings on your pilot's license."- Chuck Boedecker
"There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot."- Chuck Yeager
"The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me."- Nevil Shute
"When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."- Robert Livingston
"Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day."- Layton A. Bennett
"Don't ever let an airplane take you someplace where your brain hasn't arrived at least a couple of minutes earlier."- Anon.
"They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.' "- George MacDonald
"there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots"
"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum."- Jon McBride, astronaut
"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible."- Bob Hoover
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!"- Gerald R. Massie
"There is only one rule - Rule One - TNB - Trust No Bastard - they are all trying to kill you."- Captain Rick Davies, Chief Pilot, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Queensland Section), advise given to new captains
"I could be president of Sikorsky for six months before they found me out, but the president would only have my job for six seconds before he'd kill himself."- Walter R. 'Dick' Faull, test pilot.
The average pilot, despite the sometimes swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring. These feelings just don't involve anyone else.
There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.- Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail!!!
"Bei der Eroberung des Weltraums sind zwei Probleme zu l?sen: die Schwerkraft und der Papierkrieg. Mit der Schwerkraft wären wir fertig geworden." Wernher von Braun
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis -
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." - Amelia Earhart
"No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once." - Otto Lilienthal
"Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not." - Michael Parfit, 'Smithsonian' magazine
"After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, Man, you made a big mistake." - Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, regards his first flight.
"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything." - Otto Lilienthal
"Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." - Igor Sikorsky
"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying." - Neil Armstrong
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" - William Langewische, 2001
"Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it." - Amelia Earhart
"If you were born on an airliner in the US in this decade and never got off you would encounter your first fatal accident when you were 2300 years of age and you would still have a 29% chance of being one of the survivors." - Les Lautman, Safety Manager Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, 1989.
"Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to fly? Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?"
Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the Rudder Pedals. - Harry Bill
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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.
Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Those who hoot with the owls by night should not fly with the eagles by day.
Old Pilots never die, they just loose manifold Pressure.
"Mr. Dalton was the prime example of people who've flown airplanes for a long calendar time and perhaps many hours, but who failed to absorb any new knowledge [""Don't tell me about that - I have over 10.000hours."" No, he has 1 hour, 10.000 times] Apparently, the long experince had let him down, because he was quite pale"" - from ""Logging Flight Time" by William K. Kershner
If you push the stick forward, the hauses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. If you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
"The airport runway is the most important main street in any town" - Norm Crabtree, former aviation director of Ohio
I remember the time when sex was save and flying was dangerous.
"Yes sir Admiral, I did hear your lecture last night on fighter pilot image...but right after your lecture sir...we had this party!!!" Dudley Henriques
"Complacency or a false sense of security should nor be allowed to develop as a result of long periods without an accident or serious incident. An organisation with a good safety record is not necessarily a safe organization." ICAO Accident Prevention Manual, 1984
"Nicht einmal in tausend Jahren wird es der Menschheit gelingen, zu fliegen." Wilbur Wright, 1901
The worst day of flying still beats the best day of real work.
Gravity, it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Any pilot who does not privately consider himself the best in the game is in the wrong game.
Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.
Two of the most dangerous things in the world are a South Georgia pulpwood truck, and a doctor in a split tail bonanza.
Nothing flies without fuel, so let's start with some coffee.
Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds.
The F-4F Phantom II- living proof that if you put enough engine on something . . . even a brick could fly.
Some pilots will make an emergency out of a bad magneto check. Others, upon losing a wing, will ask for a lower altitude.
Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.
In days gone by, I've proved my worth
By zooming low across the earth.
I've buzzed the valleys and the mountain ridges,
I've dove my craft beneath the bridges.
I've looped and spun and rolled my wings,
I've sung the songs that pilots sing.
I've tried most stunts, it must be said,
Yet never learnt to use my head.
So here's a toast - To you and me!
But you drink both, I'm dead...you see.
"I ran out of altitude, airspeed and ideas all at the same time." When asked why he ejected. Attributed to Tony Lavier, Chuck Yeager, and just about every other well-known test pilot
"Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills." Frank Borman, Commander Gemini 7, Apollo 8, President Eastern Airlines
Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.
"Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven." William T. Piper, president of Piper Aircraft Corporation.
"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 'Wind, Sand, and Stars,' 1939
"Dad, I left my heart up there." Francis Gary Powers, CIA U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union, describing his first flight at age 14.
"The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul." Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh.
"It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!" Stephen Coonts, 'Flight of the Intruder'
"Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly." Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995.
"They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing." Angelina Jolie, pilot and actress, regards flying
"Talking about airplanes is a very pleasant mental disease." Sergei Sikorsky, 'AOPA Pilot' magazine February 2003.
"That's what we're trained to do." Chesley B. 'Sully' Sullenberger III, Captain of US Airways flight 1549. The A320 ditched in the Hudson River with no loss of life. The 'New York Times' reported on 16 January 2009 that he, "had just performed a remarkable feat of flying. Some were calling it a miracle. But there he stood, calmly, inside the glass waiting room at the New York Waterway terminal on Pier 79, speaking to police officials. His fine gray hair was unruffled, and his navy blue pilots uniform had barely a wrinkle." 15 January 2009.
"Are you ever afraid when you fly?" "That's a good question. Yeah. I'm always a little afraid when I fly. That's what makes me so damn good. I've seen pilots who weren't afraid of anything, who would forget about checking their instruments, who flew by instinct as though they were immortal. I've pissed on the graves of those poor bastards too. The pilot who isn't a little bit afraid always screws up and when you screw up bad in a jet, you get a corporal playing taps at the expense of the government." Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meecham, USMC
"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit." Chuck Yeager
"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." Captain A. G. Lamplugh
A smooth touchdown in a simulator is as exciting as kissing your sister.
Fly with the eagles, or scratch with the chickens.
Flying is not Nintendo. You don't push a button and start over.
The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
“I have learned that danger is relative and that inexperience is a magnifier.” Charles Lindberg
"Airspeed, altitude or brain - you need at least two of them." unkown
"May your flying be safe and may the wonder of it never fail to inspire you."
Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way. No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings. They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up angels and engines, sunsets and spark plugs, fraternity and frequencies in one all-encompassing comradeship of interests that makes for the best and most lasting kind of friendship any man can have. — Percy Knauth, "Wind on my wings," 1960.
Merksätze
Aviate - Navigate - Communicate
QDM: (Q)come (d)to Mama
"vom Hoch in's Tief geht's schief"
"im Winter sind die Berge höher.."
"von warm nach kalt wird man nicht alt"
"Red Right Run." (d.h. wenn das rote Navlight rechts zu sehen ist, dann kommt es auf dich zu!)
"Climb into headwinds, and dive away from tailwinds." For taxiing control positions.
"Siehst Du dem Sack ins Maul, ist was faul"
| Transponder Codes | ||
7500 |
Hijack |
Seven five hijacker with knife |
7600 |
Lost Radio Com. |
Seven six ich hör’ nix |
7700 |
Emergency |
Seven seven pray to heaven |
"sagt die quäke aua - gib pitch und pauer"
W elcher - Wangerooge
S eemann - Spiekeroog
L iegt - Langeoog
B ei - Baltrum
N anny - Norderney
I (J) m - Juist
B ett - Borkum
"auf dem rücken mußt du drücken!"
Before Landing: GUMPS
G Gas (fuel pump, proper tank, ...)
U Undercarriage (down)
M Mixture (rich)
P Prop (high RPM)
S Switches (lights, ...)
Note: add C in front of GUMPS for carb heat (becomes "Charlie GUMPS")
Was tun wenn verfranzt : CCCC
C - Climb
C - Circle
C - Confess (per Funk das Problem schildern und...)
C - Comply (... Anweisungen befolgen)
Unterwegs (alle 15-30 Minuten): FREDA
F - Fuel (Tank wechseln?)
R - Radios (schonmal naechste Frequenzen rasten, wenn bekannt)
E - Engine (temps & pressures)
D - Directional Gyro (nachstellen)
A - Altimeter (pruefen/stellen)
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