%% Update via "Update Publish Files" template %% | | Quote | Author | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[Filed/Two Most Important Things in Aviation.md\|...]] | What are the two most important things in aviation? The next two things. | [Teaching Students How to Think Ahead of the Airplane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRi6XHwO3lA) by [[Rod Machado]] | | [[Filed/FARs Are Rules and AIM Is How to Follow the Rules.md\|...]] | Someone told me a while back that the [[FAR]]s are the rules and the [[AIM]] is the instructions to follow the rules. I think that’s a pretty good way to look at it. | [u/DJflika on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/cf9vmk/marvelous_vfr_500/) | | [[Filed/Better to Be on the Ground.md\|...]] | It’s better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground. | Anonymous | | [[Filed/A Superior Pilot.md\|...]] | A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill. | [[Frank Borman\|Frank Borman]] | | [[Filed/Temperature Temperature Temperature.md\|...]] | There are three things that affect how long your engine will last: (1) temperature, (2) temperature, and (3) temperature! | Continental Motors tech rep Bob “Mose” Moseley, quoted in *[Temperature Temperature Temperature](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/october/19/temperature-temperature-temperature)* by [[Mike Busch]] from [[AOPA]] | | [[Filed/High Performance is License to Destroy Engine If Not Paying Attention.md\|...]] | [[High Performance]] is a license to fly engines you will destroy if you’re not paying attention. | Noted by a Private Pilot | | [[Filed/Practice Makes Permanent.md\|...]] | Practice doesn't make perfect; it makes permanent. | [[Filed/Flight and Ground Instructor Pro-Tips.md\|Flight and Ground Instructor Pro-Tips]] | | [[Filed/Fly Into The Crash In A Forced Landing.md\|...]] | If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. | [[Bob Hoover\|Bob Hoover]] | | [[Filed/Altitude and Speed as Bank and Pocket Change.md\|...]] | Altitude is money in the bank. Speed is money in the pocket. | [[Filed/Stick and Rudder.md\|Stick and Rudder]] | | [[Filed/When the Blow is Too Windy.md\|...]] | When the blow exceeds 20 knots, you must be on top of your game, and above 25 knots is for serious players only. | [Too Windy](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/1998/march/pilot/too-windy) from [[AOPA]] | | [[Filed/Protection from Weather.md\|...]] | However, we can protect ourselves in two ways: one, never be smug about a forecast, and two, while flying, keep up with the weather by periodically getting current airport weather and then comparing it with what the forecast promised. | [[Filed/Weather Flying.md\|Weather Flying]] | | [[Filed/Control Feel Changes with AoA or Speeds.md\|...]] | The controls feel different for each different [[Angle of Attack]] (or, what is the same thing, for each different speed). They feel quite odd, for example, also in a fast dive. | [[Filed/Stick and Rudder.md\|Stick and Rudder]] | | [[Filed/No Old, Bold Pilots.md\|...]] | Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. | [E. Hamilton Lee, 1949](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/fad-to-fundamental-airmail-in-america-airmail-pilot-stories/no-old-bold-pilots) | | [[Filed/Good Landing vs Outstanding Landing.md\|...]] | If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. | [[Chuck Yeager\|Chuck Yeager]] | | [[Filed/Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.md\|...]] | Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. | [[Amelia Earhart\|Amelia Earhart]] | | [[Filed/Stress Causes Maybe Incorrect Focus.md\|...]] | Stress causes most people to focus narrowly on the thing that they consider most important, and it may be the wrong thing. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/Reason Versus Emotion.md\|...]] | [[Reason]] is tentative, slow, and fallible, while [[emotion]] is sure, quick, and unhesitating. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/Planning and Letting Plan Go.md\|...]] | In nature, adaptation is important; the plan is not. It’s a Zen thing. We must plan. But we must be able to let go of the plan, too. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/Plato on Reason Versus Emotion.md\|...]] | Plato understood that emotions could trump reason and that to succeed we have to use the reins of [[reason]] on the horse of [[emotion]]. That turns out to be remarkably close to what modern research has begun to show us, and it works both ways: The intellect without the emotions is like the jockey without the horse. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/Play and Laughter to Deal With Threat.md\|...]] | \[P\]lay puts a person in touch with his environment, while laughter makes the feeling of being threatened manageable. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/New Info Forces Out Working Memory.md\|...]] | The fact that new information, especially [[emotion]]ally charged information, forces things out of [[working memory]] means that we can’t pay active attention to too many things at once. | [[Filed/Deep Survival.md\|Deep Survival]] | | [[Filed/Choking Versus Panic.md\|...]] | Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. | [[Malcolm Gladwell\|Malcolm Gladwell]] |