Attack Aviation 101
- Takeoff's are optional. Landings are mandatory.
- If God meant man to fly, He'd have given him more money.
- If you push the cyclic forward, the houses get bigger, if
you pull the cyclic back they get smaller. (Unless
you keep pulling the cyclic back -then they get bigger
again)
- Flying NVS is not dangerous; crashing NVS is dangerous.
- It's better to be down here wishing you were up there,
than up there wishing you were down here.
- The rotor system is just a big fan on top of the
helicopter to keep the pilot cool. Want
proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out
into a sweat.
- Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has
ever collided with the sky.
- It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much
as possible.
- The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on
fire.
- Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man....
Landing is the first!
- Every one already knows the definition of a 'good'
landing is one from which you can walk away. But
very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's
one after which you can use the helicopter another time.
- The probability of survival is equal to the angle of
arrival.
- Always remember you fly a helicopter with your head, not
your hands. Never let a helicopter take you somewhere
your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
- You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes
full power
- Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly
with the eagles by day.
- A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going
round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down
- all of them trying to become random in motion.
Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so ugly that
the earth immediately repels them.
- Hey WOJG, was that a landing or were we shot down?
- Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live
long enough to make all of them yourself.
- Trust your stick buddy .... but keep your seat belt
securely fastened.
- Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold
the Brooklyn Bridge. If he relies on winds-aloft reports
he can be sold Niagara Falls.
- Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes
from bad judgment.
- Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
- There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing:
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- The only thing worse than a PIC who never flew as copilot
is a copilot who once was a PIC
- Be nice to your Platoon Leader, he may be your Commander
at your next unit.
- Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase
headwind.
- A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it
appears on the outside. It's worse.
- Son, I was flying gunships for a living when you were
still in liquid form.
- It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You
start with a large fortune.
- A GUN PILOT is a confused soul who talks about women when
he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
- A fool and his money are soon flying more helicopter than
he can handle.
- Remember, you're always a student in an helicopter.
- Keep looking around; there's always something you've
missed.
- Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the
number of your takeoffs.
- You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on
the back.
- There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but
there are no old, bold, pilots!
- Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above
you... Runway behind you... Fuel in the
FARP... Half a second ago... Approach plates
in your helmet bag...The height/velocity you don't have.
- Attack Aviation is the perfect vocation for a man who
wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is.
- Asking what a pilot thinks about DES is like asking a
fireplug what it thinks about dogs.
- Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have
to go on all those trips.
- Gravity never loses! The best you can hope for is a
draw!
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