For the Flight Instructor

  • You don't know what you don't know.
  • Much of what you think you know is incorrect.
  • Together, we must find out why you don't know what you don't know.
  • It is practice of the right kind that makes perfect.
  • You will never do well if you stop doing better.
  • Students never fail, only teachers do.
  • A student's performance is not so much a reflection on the student, as it is on the instructor's ability to teach.
  • Learning is not a straight line up... let the teacher set the standards of performance.
  • Much of learning to fly is to unlearn preconceptions and habits.
  • The way you are first taught and learn a procedure is the way you will react in an emergency. It's important to learn right the first time.
  • Unlearning is a very necessary and difficult part of learning to fly.
  • You learn according to what you bring into the situation.
  • Being prepared for a flight saves you money by saving time.
  • Given the choice, make the safe decision.
  • If you must make a mistake, make it a new one.
  • One problem is a problem, two problems are a hazard; three problems create accidents.
  • Trusting to luck alone is not conducive to an extended flying career.
  • We progress through repeated success; we learn through our mistakes.
  • An instructors knowledge is proportional to the mistakes he's made.
  • Good habits deteriorate over time.
  • Accidents happen when you run out of experience.
  • Self instruction is the garden that raises bad habits.
  • Our failures teach us. If you want to increase your chances of success double your failure rate.
  • ... almost always. Nothing is always.
  • Luck will do for skill, but not consistently.
  • The nice thing about a mistake is the pleasure it gives others.
  • You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
  • Flying, like life, is full of precluded possibilities.
    Can't do... won't do... shouldn't do...
  • What you know is not as important as what you do with it.



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