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[Random Quote] - Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a fireplug what it thinks about dogs. - (Added by: MikePapa)
List of all the random quotes
Poster Quote Date Added Delete Edit
Administrator Think positive, Flaps negative. 2003-03-17 10:36 AM Delete Edit
CurtL33 Keep Thermalling - Gravity sucks, but it's the law ... 2003-03-17 11:40 AM Delete Edit
Erwin There's no place like the cloudbase 2003-03-18 1:36 PM Delete Edit
Paul in AZ To Turn is to admit defeat! 2003-03-18 6:43 PM Delete Edit
Dan "You've gotta be tough, If you're gonna be stupid" 2003-03-18 10:31 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Being afraid is just a waste of time. You live your life and you die when it's time. You don't practice bleeding, you just do it when the time comes" Chuck Yeager 2003-03-18 10:35 PM Delete Edit
Administrator "I'll be Back" Arnie in Terminator 2003-03-18 10:56 PM Delete Edit
Administrator "Take a higher tow theres wave" Tony Soar Minden 2003-03-18 10:56 PM Delete Edit
Dan When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. 2003-03-18 10:57 PM Delete Edit
Dan My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.. Richard Bach 2003-03-18 10:58 PM Delete Edit
Dan I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .Antoine De Saint Exupery 2003-03-18 10:59 PM Delete Edit
Dan After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."— Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, regards his first flight. 2003-03-18 11:06 PM Delete Edit
Dan To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.— Otto Lilienthal 2003-03-18 11:06 PM Delete Edit
Dan There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!— Roscoe Turner 2003-03-18 11:07 PM Delete Edit
Dan It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 2003-03-18 11:08 PM Delete Edit
Dan Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.— José Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador. 2003-03-18 11:12 PM Delete Edit
Dan Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.— Batman costume warning label, Wal-Mart, 1995. 2003-03-18 11:13 PM Delete Edit
Dan Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying— Neil Armstrong. 2003-03-18 11:20 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."Physicist, Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, [ENGLAND] 1885 2003-03-18 11:26 PM Delete Edit
Dan "One good hole in the overcast is worth ten published approaches" 2003-03-18 11:34 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Bother" said Pooh when his engine stalled on take-off. 2003-03-18 11:37 PM Delete Edit
Openclass O-GOD! Just one more thermal so I can make it home. 2003-03-19 4:02 AM Delete Edit
Flopster Height at the line is waste of time... 2003-03-19 6:51 AM Delete Edit
zerocinco "Call it."...Orville Wright 2003-03-19 11:37 AM Delete Edit
PilotNX211 Sun don't shine on a sittin dogs ass, and if all God gave you are lemons, well, make lemonade. 2003-03-19 3:56 PM Delete Edit
kenward Love is like racing a snowmobile at top speed across the frozen tundra. Suddenly it catches an edge, flipping over and pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - PJ O'rourke 2003-03-20 1:51 AM Delete Edit
Michael "Hey! You! Get off of my cloud" - Famous glider pilot - Mick Jagger 2003-03-20 10:52 AM Delete Edit
zerocinco People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening...Jack Handy 2003-03-20 12:41 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that?--Capt Picard 2003-03-20 12:42 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco Hey, everybody -- watch this! 2003-03-20 12:44 PM Delete Edit
zerocinco "About the time I come up over the wire, the #1 jug went over the top wing and she started poppin' like a dog shittin' peach seeds"-Joe Leisman 2003-03-20 12:46 PM Delete Edit
xcnick "Good pilots don't need motors" my mom 2003-03-21 11:36 AM Delete Edit
kimobear If you can see it over the nose you can't reach it. 2003-03-21 9:41 PM Delete Edit
verhulst "A spin is a normal mode of flight - unsuitable for landing" Unknown British aerodynamycist 2003-03-21 9:51 PM Delete Edit
bkorves "Chicken Little was right" 2003-03-22 11:19 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Keep the aeroplane in such an attitude that the air pressure is directly in the pilot's face. - Horatio C. Barber, 1916 2003-03-24 9:54 AM Delete Edit
Ravan When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten. - Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca' 2003-03-24 9:54 AM Delete Edit
Ravan The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, sometime before his death in the 1920's 2003-03-24 9:55 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day. - Layton A. Bennett 2003-03-24 9:55 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly the 'A' model of anything. - Ed Thompson 2003-03-24 9:56 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the Rudder Pedals. Harry Bill 2003-03-24 9:56 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee. - William Kershner 2003-03-24 9:57 AM Delete Edit
Ravan When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible. - advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. 2003-03-24 9:57 AM Delete Edit
Ravan If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible. - Bob Hoover 2003-03-24 9:58 AM Delete Edit
Ravan The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you. - Ernest K. Gann, advice from the 'old pelican' 2003-03-24 9:58 AM Delete Edit
Ravan If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. - Chuck Yeager 2003-03-24 9:59 AM Delete Edit
Ravan Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you. -Richard Herman Jr., 'Firebreak' 2003-03-24 9:59 AM Delete Edit
Ravan An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one - Len Morgan 2003-03-24 10:00 AM Delete Edit
Ravan I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richter scale 2003-03-24 10:00 AM Delete Edit
Ravan New FAA motto: We're not happy until you're not happy 2003-03-24 10:01 AM Delete Edit
Ravan 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 airplane another time 2003-03-24 10:48 AM Delete Edit
bpattonsoa Sometimes its bettter to be high than good 2003-03-24 11:06 AM Delete Edit
Daven You can sleep in your glider, but you can't fly your house! - Kate Porter 2003-03-24 4:05 PM Delete Edit
steve I'd rather be lucky than good any day 2003-03-24 9:31 PM Delete Edit
steve The dangers of the air are not what most pilots think they are. We are often cocky at the wrong time. And often we are afraid at the wrong time. -W. Langewiesche 2003-03-24 9:52 PM Delete Edit
Tim (of the Blanik...) never trust anything that needs flaps to achieve K-13 performance 2003-03-25 7:14 AM Delete Edit
Tim Wood is good, glass is class, but only tin can win 2003-03-25 7:15 AM Delete Edit
Tim Fly it?!? I wouldn't walk underneath it...! 2003-03-25 7:15 AM Delete Edit
Flapster "Flying a PW5 is like masturbating with a cheese grater- vaguely amusing but mostly very unplesant." Terry Delore 2003-03-25 10:10 AM Delete Edit
Sven Never walk past an open cockpit - Chuck Yeager 2003-03-25 2:40 PM Delete Edit
Howard There are old pilots and bold pilots, but, no old/bold pilots 2003-03-25 10:12 PM Delete Edit
Howard There I was, upside down, nothing on the clock but the makers name, and it wasn't even "Smiths" 2003-03-25 10:16 PM Delete Edit
Ernie some times it is better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air wishing you'd be on the ground ;-) 2003-03-26 1:39 AM Delete Edit
Ernie no pain - no gain (from the times when the gliders didn't fly on their own) 2003-03-26 1:40 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "... what is your height and position?", " I'm 5 foot 10, sitting in a glider" 2003-03-26 4:26 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey There must be lift around here somewhere. 2003-03-26 4:38 AM Delete Edit
Tim There are 2 sorts of pilots that land wheels up: those that have, and those that will 2003-03-26 7:03 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If you can navigate by reading the roadsigns you're too *****y low. 2003-03-26 7:40 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "There is a substitute for span, it's skill, but you can buy span." - Platypus 2003-03-26 7:47 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground, and missing" - Douglas Adams 2003-03-26 7:54 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey You can only ever tie the record for the lowest beatup. 2003-03-26 7:59 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If the other guy hasn't seen you, they can write "he had the right of way" on your gravestone. 2003-03-26 8:34 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey If you're going to land wheel up, do it on grass while no-one is watching. 2003-03-26 8:37 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Aviate, Navigate, Communicate 2003-03-26 9:49 AM Delete Edit
MaD How can they know the joy of living, them who cannot fly? - Douglas Bader 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
MaD Why walk when you can soar? 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
MaD The sky is the limit 2003-03-26 1:22 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. The most important thing to have when you are flying is speed, if you do not have speed you are not flying. 2003-03-26 6:01 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. As an old Indian friend of mine used to say " See you at the TP" 2003-03-26 6:04 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. Most usless radio call "Bravo Bravo switch on your radio" 2003-03-26 6:11 PM Delete Edit
J.Y. "Press on Press on Roundout" 2003-03-26 6:12 PM Delete Edit
Dan The sky is not the limit. The ground is the limit. 2003-03-27 12:39 AM Delete Edit
ciciliati God does not subtract from one's alloted time on Earth those hours spent flying. --unknown 2003-03-27 8:09 AM Delete Edit
ciciliati Mom's advice to the pilot: "Darling, be careful! Don't go fast! And don't go high!" 2003-03-27 8:27 AM Delete Edit
JPB Circling provides no speed @ XC 2003-03-27 11:34 AM Delete Edit
MaD There's nothing less useful than the runway behind you, the air above you or a second ago. 2003-03-27 2:36 PM Delete Edit
MaD How can you know what heights you are able to achieve before you spread your wings? - University T-shirt 2003-03-27 2:45 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld Glider pilots do it silent 2003-03-27 3:16 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld There is no such thing as gravity. The earth just sucks... 2003-03-27 3:22 PM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld "Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory" (James McLaughlin) 2003-03-27 3:31 PM Delete Edit
Flapster "A superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid getting into situations which require his superior skill" 2003-03-27 3:38 PM Delete Edit
Flapster "There is one type of pilot who lands wheels-up: he who has and has got it into his head everyone else will.." 2003-03-27 3:45 PM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey "We don't need an undercarriage alarm, only an idiot would land wheels up" 2003-03-27 6:22 PM Delete Edit
Flapster Call the ball, Mav 2003-03-28 6:50 AM Delete Edit
Flapster Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is full... 2003-03-28 6:51 AM Delete Edit
Flapster Screw up and you'll be flying rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong... 2003-03-28 6:52 AM Delete Edit
MaD Du bist mein Segelflug (You are my glider flight) - Herbert Grönemeyer, German pop star, in a love song! 2003-03-28 10:17 AM Delete Edit
Pedro Duarte There are two sorts of pilots: those who land badly and the liars. 2003-03-28 12:31 PM Delete Edit
cirrusfmu Those who hoot with the owls at night cannot soar with the eagles at dawn. 2003-03-29 9:46 AM Delete Edit
Ben Starreveld Let's make a 360 back home 2003-03-30 8:02 AM Delete Edit
Dan Most useless radio call..."Hey, your mike button is stuck" 2003-03-30 11:32 PM Delete Edit
Dan "I thought YOU took the aileron locks off"? 2003-03-30 11:34 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Wow, I've never seen a Grob bounce 18 times before" 2003-03-30 11:36 PM Delete Edit
Dan Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges. The edges of the air can be recognised by the apperance of ground, buildings, sea, trees, and intersteller space. 2003-03-30 11:40 PM Delete Edit
Dan It's better to break ground and head into the wind, than to break wind and head into the ground 2003-03-30 11:42 PM Delete Edit
Dan "If it's ugly, it's British. If it's weird, it's French. If it'e ugly & weird, it's Russian 2003-03-30 11:44 PM Delete Edit
Dan Forget all about lift, gravity, thrust and drag, an airplane flys because of money. If God had meant for man to fly, He would have given him more money. 2003-03-30 11:47 PM Delete Edit
Dan You're going to have to make up your mind about groing up and being a pilot, 'cause you can't do both. 2003-03-30 11:50 PM Delete Edit
Dan "The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down" ...Chuck Yeager 2003-03-30 11:51 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Wheelbarrows were invented to teach the FAA how to walk on their hind legs. 2003-03-30 11:53 PM Delete Edit
Zulu9 It takes a big dog to weigh a ton! 2003-03-31 3:08 AM Delete Edit
steve He's just another projectile in search of a grid reference 2003-03-31 10:31 PM Delete Edit
Ray Lovinggood This thermal is so good, it makes my nipples hard! 2003-04-01 6:06 PM Delete Edit
jt_whyme "if its ugly, wierd and flies like a turd its american" 2003-04-02 3:30 PM Delete Edit
jt_whyme "Wood is good, glass is class, if its tin... in the bin." 2003-04-02 3:36 PM Delete Edit
SAM I got into XC sailplane racing for the prize $$ and the groupies... 2003-04-03 5:48 PM Delete Edit
SAM I'm going to install my office window at the clubhouse because conditions always look better through that window. 2003-04-03 5:50 PM Delete Edit
Howard What happens when the wind stops? 2003-04-04 3:00 AM Delete Edit
Howard Are glider crashes fatal? Only once. 2003-04-04 3:02 AM Delete Edit
Nick I fly for fun. But winning, itself, is good fun - Ingo Renner 2003-04-04 3:42 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Rule 1 : No crashing 2003-04-04 11:03 AM Delete Edit
Dan It looks good.....You go first. 2003-04-05 1:35 AM Delete Edit
henell I wish you would keep your tug in station in front of my glider! 2003-04-05 7:22 AM Delete Edit
Nyal Never let the yaw string point toward the ground. 2003-04-05 7:39 PM Delete Edit
Dan "We want to be free! Free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride! To ride our machines without being hassled by the man! We want to get loaded! And we want to have a good time! And that's what we're gonna do! We're gonna have a good time! We're gonna have a party!"...Peter Fonda, The Wild One...1954 2003-04-06 1:39 AM Delete Edit
henell Old Chinese proverb,Man who fly lowly slowly, diggee big holey! 2003-04-06 7:06 AM Delete Edit
henell Chinese proverb, "Man who fly base leg with wind up a'' " e, got rocks in head. 2003-04-06 7:09 AM Delete Edit
airgonzo The early bird may get the worm, But, The SECOND mouse gets the cheese! 2003-04-06 11:48 AM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR Man,I flew that (enter task here) slow. I got a bird-stike -- from behind!! 2003-04-06 8:36 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR For a naval aviator, there are three important things in life: a good landing, a good bowel movement and a good orgasm. A carrier landing in bad weather at night may afford you to experience all of those three thing at once! 2003-04-06 8:42 PM Delete Edit
1AVI8OR "2-33 - we are both at 750ft, do you want to enter down-wind now?" -- Response: " No, go ahead, I want to burn off some more altitude" - - Shortly before hitting a tree because of wrong altimeter setting! (Sad, but true) 2003-04-06 8:46 PM Delete Edit
bpattonsoa "Hell yes its is dangerous... you could get addicted" Les Sebald to a ride customer at Truckee 2003-04-06 10:54 PM Delete Edit
Dan The computer says I've got it made. 2003-04-07 11:27 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Take me to a thermal, and tell me when it's good" 2003-04-07 11:28 PM Delete Edit
Dan I don't think the strong stuff will be here for awhile. 2003-04-07 11:30 PM Delete Edit
Nimbus3 Fly with the eagles or scratch with the chickens. 2003-04-08 2:59 PM Delete Edit
Dan The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity...Harlan Ellison-1934 2003-04-10 2:20 AM Delete Edit
Alpha Whiskey Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. 2003-04-10 8:43 AM Delete Edit
Nyal I hate this stuff! I only do it because my wife wants to be married to a glider pilot. 2003-04-12 3:05 AM Delete Edit
MaD When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky. 2003-04-12 10:46 AM Delete Edit
MaD It's easy to make a little fortune in soaring - simply start off with a big one. 2003-04-12 10:48 AM Delete Edit
MaD It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible. 2003-04-12 10:50 AM Delete Edit
MaD Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous. 2003-04-12 10:51 AM Delete Edit
MaD You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck. 2003-04-12 10:54 AM Delete Edit
Tim Grob is the Russian word for coffin 2003-04-15 10:34 AM Delete Edit
Dan "This is called the artificial horizon...Much better than the actual horizon" - Steven Wright 2003-04-16 4:03 PM Delete Edit
Dan "Flying a plane is no harder than riding a bicycle. It's just alot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes" - Airplane 2003-04-16 4:32 PM Delete Edit
Dan *The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. (William Clayton) 2003-04-16 4:44 PM Delete Edit
Dan *"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - John Lehman (US secretary of the Navy) 2003-04-16 4:47 PM Delete Edit
Dan *Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. (Tom Waits) 2003-04-16 4:48 PM Delete Edit
Dan