Author Topic: Instructor/Pilot sayings (Read 349 times)

CyranoAH · « **on:** February 06, 2002, 12:42:37 PM »

I'm curious as of the miriad expressions that many of us have heard from instructors or fellow pilots (virtual or not).

For the sake of curiosity, I'm beginning a thread in which we can all post the different expressions we've heard through the years that relate to flying, or learning to fly...

I'll start:

- "Flying is easy: if you want to go up, pull on the stick; if you want to go down, pull a little further"

- "There's no such thing as a little ice"

- (on altimeter settings)"If the pressure's high, you're doing fine, but if the pressure's low, look down below!"

- (on VASIs)"If all the lights are white, you're to high, but if all the lights are red... you're dead!"

Contributions are very welcome!

Daniel, aka Cyrano

Gunthr · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2002, 01:58:43 PM »

General Emergancy Rule #1 - First, Fly the plane!

There's old pilots and there's bold pilots, but there aint no old bold pilots.

"Trust your instruments!"

Keep your head on a swivel!

"Make sure there's nothing dangling or dripping before you get in the plane."

"Always land on the grass to save your tires."

"Gethome-itis will kill ya."

Raubvogel · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2002, 02:12:13 PM »

Commenting on a helicopter's Collective stick:

"Pull this up the houses get smaller...push it down the houses get bigger."

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2002, 03:47:01 PM »

Not an instructor, but the XO at VF-51 (an F-14 squadron) had this to say about jet fighters.

"The only time a fighter has too much gas is when it's on fire." - CDR Tom Sobieck

P.S. "Two CFI's flying together are equal to 1/2 of a student." - Unknown

Pei · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2002, 05:32:29 PM »

First Rule of Flying:
Always make sure your number of landings equal your number of takeoffs

snafu · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2002, 06:21:10 PM »

Not sure if this falls into this catagory but I like it...

A F-15 was escorting a C-141 into Tel Aviv during the war. The F-15 pilot said, "Bet you wish you could do this!" and moved way out front and did a nice barrel roll for all to see. A little later when the F-15 was back in position behind the C-141, the pilot said, "Bet you wish you could do this!" After several minutes the F-15 pilot finally radioed, "So?" The C-141 pilot replied, "I just went back to the lav and took my morning relief!"

TTFN
snafu

CyranoAH · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2002, 06:45:56 PM »

On the gliding performance of the Pitts S-2 (or lack of)

Glide ratio, 2:1

For every two meters you advance, you lose one Pitts

Daniel, aka Cyrano

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2002, 08:41:42 PM »

Forget where I heard these...

"Enemy fire has right of way."

"The only thing more alarming than incoming enemy tracers are incoming freindly tracers."

"When in doubt, pull trigger."

"When the enemy is in range, so are you."

Figured Id put in a decent quote too - Ill probably add more later. ;-)

"Suddenly my Focke Wulf gave a shudder, the wing dropped, and I found myself spinning helplessly into the melee below. With the dogfight going on all around me, it was utter chaos - Focke Wulfs chasing Lightnings chanding Focke Wulfs. I recovered from my spin and fired a burst at one Lightning only to have to break away when another Lightning curved round and opened fire at me. We were being chopped up by experts and I watched Focke Wulf after Focke Wulf go down. My meager experience in handling the Fw-190 was insufficient for this situation and the middle of a dogfight was no place to learn. Breaking away, I dived down to a low altitude making good my escape. I had landed back at Herpy, taxied to my dispersal point, shut down the engine, and clambered out; my flightsuit wringing wet with sweat. Sixteen of our aircraft had been destroyed, with fourteen pilot killed or missing and three more wounded. At the end of six weeks ina hospital, I found there were only three or four survivors out of the forty or so half-trained pilots that had set out with me to go to France in August; the remainder were either dead, wounded, or in enemy prison camps. My combat career as a single engine fighter pilot had lasted exactly two missions: during the first I had a hard fight mearly to stay alive, during the second I was shot down and wounded. So far as I am aware, during neither of these did my presence cause the enemy the slightest inconvienence. In the summer of 1944, the skies over France were no place for a beginner."

Fritz Buchholtz
Fw-190 Pilot, JG51

Enjoy,
Mazz/Mike
<-TFC->