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Never
trust a pilot.
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Never
trust another controller.
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You
can break the rules, so long as you know which rules you're
breaking.
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Look
for the landmines.
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A
little vert(icle separation) never hurt.
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If
you worry about it, it wont happen.
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If
he can catch him, he can fuck him. (A separation standard not found
in the books!)
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When
you enter the simulator you will lose 50% of your IQ. The
instructor will give it back to you piece by piece.
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Air
traffic control is easy until it gets hard. Then it gets very
hard. The problem is, it can get very hard very easily.
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Learn
to say "No!".
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Good
judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment!
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Experience
is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.
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Experience
is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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By
definition, half of the controllers in your facility are below average.
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We have a
perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there yet!
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The
similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
- If a pilot stuffs up, the pilot dies.
- If a controller stuffs up, the pilot still dies.
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The more
traffic at an airport, the better it is handled.
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Don't trust
anybody and don't do anything stupid.
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Keep
looking around; there's always something you've missed.
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Assumption
is the mother of all fuck-ups.
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Indecision
is the key to flexibility.
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Our
failures teach us. If you want to increase your chances of success double your failure rate.
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Luck will
do for skill, but not consistently.
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The nice
thing about a mistake is the pleasure it gives others.
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Flying the
aircraft is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
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When the
art of radio communication between pilots and ATC is improved, the result will be vastly increased areas of significant
misunderstandings.
- Robert Livingston, 'Flying The Aeronca.'
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You land a
million planes safely, then you have one little mid-air and you never hear the end of it ...
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Opening quotation in movie 'Pushing Tin', 1999.
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A
performance check
ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
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The wish to
be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
- Sigmund Freud
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" If God
had meant us to fly, he wouldn't have invented Spanish air traffic
control".
- Lister, Red Dwarf [apologies amigos]
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Don't trust pilots.
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Don't trust sector controllers.
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Don't trust tower controllers.
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Don't trust anyone.
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Develop a thick skin.
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Never back a Dash 8 to beat anything
- even another Dash 8.
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Never worry about departures, they are the towers problem.
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Pray that the management pilots have good FOs.
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Computer Derived Threshold Times will be accurate only if the captain
throws the computer out the storm window as he overflies the threshold in
the go-round after being too intimate with the aircraft in front.
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All pilots think that they should be Number 1.
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Bandeirantes can be used to hide unexplained gaps in the
sequence.
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Unless they build more runways, the maximum number of aircraft that can
land at an airport in a given time will remain the same, despite the wet
dreams of airline schedulers.
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Have faith in your own ability, no-one else does.
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Same money, right or wrong.
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If you believe the tower controller who says that the runway works will
be finished prior to the start of the next sequence, you deserve all you get.
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Your are only as good as your last sequence.
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If your last sequence was not good, see above.
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Keep slipping the odd joke to the approach controllers, it keeps their
mind off what is coming up.
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One day you will get a trainee who merely triples your workload.
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Never sit in approach and work your own sequence.
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Always keep a false nose or wig in the car, an angry mob waiting outside
the carpark is not a pretty sight.
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The Flow is never wrong, The Flow is merely acting on information that
may now be superseded.
