This Calvin cartoon is from 1992. I don’t think modern computers and 25 years of human factors research have changed the punch line. Thank goodness for skilled pilots!
Category: Airmanship Quotes
Happy Sunday!
See you in the sky . . .
What Will You Sacrifice?
Newall Hunter is a 53-year-old communications contractor and IT engineer, who has climbed 7 of the world’s highest peaks and trekked to both poles. He gets honest about what it takes in this Red Bulletin magazine article. What will you give up to do what you really want? “If it doesn’t feel right, you should turn around. You can come …
Fifty Shades of Flying
Strap me in!
The Seduction of Safety
Embracing a constantly shifting continuum of uncertainty is more work than smiling because you passed a safety audit last year. But good flying demands we do just that.
Jimmy Chin on the Perpetual Pursuit
Legendary climber Jimmy Chin lives the perpetual pursuit so well that, “I think I’d be really sad if I ever found out what my potential was.” He has climbed (then skied down) Everest, and recorded his historic assent of Meru in the amazing 2015 film Meru. It’s a close and personal look at what risk-management and perseverance look like when lives are …
Higher Cause than Personal Safety
There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety. John Glenn, first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, on this day 1962. Maybe true for pioneering test pilots, less so for us regular pilots. Original NASA photo from a camera aboard the Mercury-Atlas 6 spaceflight captures Glenn as he uses a photometer to view …
Every Time I Go Out
Kai Lenny calls Pea’hi, Hawaii, his ‘other mother’ in this month’s Outside magazine. The best are always learning. It’s the perpetual pursuit.
Outraged Woman Asks Picasso
Outraged woman asks Pablo Picasso why simple bar sketch will cost 5000 Francs, since he drew it in only five minutes: “No, madam, it took me my whole life.” Maybe your old airline captain isn’t overpaid for that landing?
What Determines Your Success
“Follow your passion” is OK advice up to a point. But beyond that, what we really get good at, is what we will suffer for. It’s not all happy days and chocolate ice cream. Mark Manson explains in his book The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck