Excellent Aviation Week article “How Pilots Intuitively Make Critical Decisions” is free online.
Tag: practice
Mike Goulian’s Flying Mindset
Mike is an American aerobatic national champion, Red Bull air racer, and author of aerobatic flight training manuals. This quote was in the November 2014 iPad edition of the aviation magazine LOOP:
If You Fail to Prepare …
If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail. Mark Spitz, nine-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in seven events. Reminds me of the Seven P’s: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
Once is Not Enough
Once is not enough. Make the mental paths deep by walking through the weeds many times. This quote is often misattributed to Henry D. Thoreau. But it’s actually by Wilfred Arlan Peterson in his ‘The Art of Living, Day by Day: Three Hundred and Sixty-five Thoughts, Ideas, Ideals, Experiences, Adventures, Inspirations, to Enrich Your Life’ (New York: Simon and Schuster, …
Button Pushing
“A musician must practice every day. A baseball player must practice every day. Heck, even a clown has to practice. So why do pilots get to push buttons on an autopilot and consider that flying? That is not flying.” ~ Rick Erikson, writing about automation dependency and proficiency in the June 2015 edition of Soaring magazine.
Michael Phelps Coach on Everyday Excellence
This quote is from ASU coach Bob Bowman, talking about Michael Phelps and everyday excellence. The most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals, Phelps didn’t miss a day of Bob’s training in 6 years. (Interview in Livehhappy magazine, June 2015. Photo London 2012 Olympic butterfly, CC BY-SA 3.0 Madchester)
Confucius on Flying
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” ~ Confucius, The Analects, Book 17, Chapter 2.
The Real Journey
It takes work, a lot of work, but eventually you’ll land the plane with the ease of a child’s toy.
The Search for the Simplicity of a Single Line
When I first started thinking about the Inner Art of Airmanship, I was looking for the common connections between all kinds of flying. Sometimes we find deeper truths that connect more diverse activities. Like how how search for the simplicity of a single line links a seventieth century French painter, Zen brush art, the trajectory of space missions, Formula 1’s …
Vicky Benzing on Risk
In anything that has some level of risk I like to be well practiced. ~ Vicky Benzing, aerobatic and Reno air race pilot. Quoted in Flying magazine, March 2015.