"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

" Albert Einstein "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken Undertake difficult tasks by approaching what is easy in them . . . Lao Tzu

"If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there." Henry David Thoreau "With a short dash down the runway, the machine lifted into the air and was flying. It was only a flight of twelve seconds, and it was

uncertain, wavy, creeping sort of flight at best; but it was a real flight at last and not a glide." Orville Wright "Flying is so many parts skill, so many parts planning, so many parts maintenance, and so many parts luck. The trick is to reduce the luck by increasing the others." David L. Baker "Real confidence in the air is bred only by mistakes made and recovered from at a safe altitude, in a safe ship, and seated on a good parachute." Rodney H. Jackson "It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others." Publilius Syrus "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." Franklin P. Jones "The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own." Richard Bach "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." Wilbur Wright "The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings." Sir James Matthew Barrie "Learning should be fun. If you don't have fun in aviation then you don't learn, and when learning stops, you die." Pete Campbell, FAA "Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you." Frank Crane

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God." Gordon Baxter "One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try." Sophocles "The pilot who teaches himself has a fool for a student." Robert Livingston, Flying the Aeronca "There is no such thing as a natural-born pilot." Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" Yeager "Helicopters dont fly. They beat the air into submission." Aviation clich "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." William Shakespeare "What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery." Wilbur Wright, 1902 "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William A. Ward "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas Carruthers

"Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready." Wilbur Wright "The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it." David Searles "A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse." Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight." Elrey Borge Jeppesen

Mix ignorance with arrogance at low altitude and the results are almost guaranteed to be spectacular.

Bruce Landsberg, Executive Director, AOPA Air Safety Foundation

In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. Wilbur Wright

"Great pilots are made, not born...A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience." Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, RAF "It is practice of the right kind that makes perfect." Anonymous

"I learned that danger is relative, and that inexperience can be a magnifying glass." Charles A. Lindbergh "Don't ever let an airplane take you someplace where your brain hasn't arrived at least a couple of minutes earlier." Andy Anderson "To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home." Anonymous "Given the choice, make the safe decision." Anonymous