1. It's hard to crash going up.
2. Altitude is your friend.
3. The most useless things to a pilot are unused runway and fuel left in the truck.
- There is no such thing as "too much fuel" - except when you're on fire,
5. Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory.
6. The most dangerous words in Army aviation are when the Lt. says "It's been my experience", the Captain says "In my best judgement" and the WO says "Watch this sh.."
7. The definition of a helicopter is 10,000 mismatched parts in random synchronization simultaneously trying to destroy each other.
8. The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession.
9. One of the most important skills a pilot can have is to ignore the things that were designed by a non-pilot.
10. You'll know you landed with the wheels up if it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
- Ever wonder why Kamakazi pilots wore helmets?
12. Navy carrier pilot to Air Force pilot. Flaring to land is like squatting to pee.
13. It's better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
14. Flying is not dangerous, crashing is dangerous.
15 Push the stick forward and the houses get bigger. Pull the stick back and the houses get smaller. (unless you keep pulling it back, then they get bigger again.)
16. The probability of survival is inversly proportional to the angle of arrival.
17. You can not propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
18. Never fly in the same cockpit with somebody braver than yourself.
19. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
20. Try to keep the number of landings equal to the number of takeoffs.
21. Turbulance and air sickness are God's way of telling man that he wasn't meant to fly.
22. Flashlights are metal tubes designed to store dead batteries in flight bags.
23. Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
24. Never trade luck for skill.
