Wisdom from flight training manuals......................

[dyna76]

WISDOM FROM TRAINING MANUALS

 


  'If the enemy is in range, so are you..'
- Infantry Journal-


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 'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.'
- US.Air Force Manual - 


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 'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword, obviously never encountered automatic weapons.'
 - General MacArthur - 


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 'You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.'
 - Infantry Sgt.- 


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 'Tracers work both ways.'
 - Army Ordnance Manual- 


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 'Five second fuses last about three seconds.'
 - Infantry Journal - 


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 The three most useless things in aviation are: Fuel in the bowser; Runway behind you; and Air above you.
 -Basic Flight Training Manual- 


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 'Any ship can be a minesweeper. Once.'
 - Naval Ops Manual - 


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 'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.'
 - Unknown Infantry Recruit- 


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 'If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up to him.'
 - Infantry Journal- 


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 'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil.  For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
 - Sign over SR71 Wing Ops- 


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 'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
 -Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)- 


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 'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
 -Unknown Author- 


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 'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- Fixed Wing Pilot- 


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 'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
  -Multi-Engine Training Manual- 


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 'Without ammunition, the Air Force is just an expensive flying club.'
 -Unknown Author- 


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 'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
 -Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot- 


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 'What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; but If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies.'
-Sign over Control Tower Door- 


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 'Never trade luck for skill.'
-Author Unknown- 


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 The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in military aviation are:'Did you feel that?' 'What's that noise?' and'Oh S...!'
-Authors Unknown- 


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 'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual- 


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  'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
- Emergency Checklist- 


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 'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world;  it can just barely kill you.'
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) - 


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 'There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.'
-Sign over Squadron Ops Desk at Davis-Montham AFB, AZ- 


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'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.' - Lead-in Fighter Training Manual -


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As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft,

having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives.


The rescuer sees the bloodied pilot and asks,'What happened?'
The pilot's reply: 'I don't know, I just got here myself!'
 

 

 

 

[crazyivan]

'You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.'
 - Infantry Sgt.- 

 

'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil.  For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
 - Sign over SR71 Wing Ops- 


Well someone has to take the picture.

'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual- 

Why can't I have all three.

[Krusty]

Most of those you will not find in any "infantry journal" or "navy ops journal" and are not in any way training material. They are funny sayings that have been around for a while, and many of them show up in some variation of Murphy's Laws (Murphy was a pilot, Murphy was a sailor, Murphy was a grunt, etc...)

They're in no way official things printed by the armed forces in training manuals, but I still find 'em funny.


A new one to me, that I really enjoyed:
 'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
 -Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot-

Classic!

[SunBat]

Most of those you will not find in any "infantry journal" or "navy ops journal" and are not in any way training material. They are funny sayings that have been around for a while, and many of them show up in some variation of Murphy's Laws (Murphy was a pilot, Murphy was a sailor, Murphy was a grunt, etc...)

They're in no way official things printed by the armed forces in training manuals, but I still find 'em funny.


A new one to me, that I really enjoyed:
 'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
 -Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot-

Classic!

How'd you get so smart?  I want to be smart too.

Good stuff Dyna!!

[JunkyII]

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

I hear that alot.

The "you, you, and you....panic. the rest of you come with me" Is from The Unit....a TV show about an Army special forces unit. Good stuff but no Infantry quote just hollywoood.


Another one I use alot that I have heard from acouple NCOs......"Im gunna break you off, hand it back, then break you off again" 

[TOMCAT21]

I like Claymores: " Front towards enemy "...no kidding

[hammer]

Actually, the Infantry Journal is not an official training publication but the professional magazine of the infantry branch. You may indeed find humorous tidbits of wisdom such as noted above. And folks in the service are not above slipping a good one in if they can.

I recently reviewed a document from a major HQ which had a new term - Army Warfighter Challenge (the new term for military problems  ) along with its acronym... AWfC. Pronounce that. When I querried about the proper way to pronounce that (since it couldn't be the way I pronounced it), I was told "we've just been saying the letters". This was in a document being staffed from a 4 star HQ to multiple 3 and 2 star subordinate HQs. The guy who put that in has to have big cajones, because he had to know what he was writing when he wrote it!

Regards,

Hammer