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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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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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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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Keep looking around;
there's always something you've missed.
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Assumption is the mother of
all f***-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 ...
- Opening quotation in
movie 'Pushing Tin', 1999.
