10 Commandments

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
These have made the rounds before... but been a while, and fun to share with the new folks...

Pilot's Ten Commandments

  1. Thou shalt abstain from the intersection takeoff for verily the runway behind thee, as the altitude above thee, cometh not to thine aid when thou needest them.
  2. Thou shalt not linger on active runways lest thou become like unto ground sirloin.
  3. Ignorest thou not thy checklists for many are the switches, handles, gauges and other demons awaiting to take cruel vengeance upon thee.
  4. Thou shalt cast thine eyes to thy right and also to thy left as thou passeth through the firmament lest thy fellow pilots bring flowers to thy widow and comfort her in other ways.
  5. Buzzeth not, for this shall surely incur the wrath of thy neighbors and the fury of the FAA shall be called down upon thy head.
  6. Thou shalt be ever mindful of thy fuel lest there be nothing in thy tank to sustain thee upon the air and thy days be made short.
  7. Trust not thine eyes to lead thee through the cloud lest the Archangel Gabriel await thee therein.
  8. Thou shalt not trespass into the thunderstorm lest the tempest rend the wings from thy chariot and cast thee naked into the firmament.
  9. Put not thy trust in weather prophets, for when the truth is not in, then they shall not accompany thee among thy ancestors.
  10. Often shalt thou confirm thine airspeed on final lest the earth rise up and smite thee.
 
In 7, is not the archangel nameth Granite
and
in 10, Doesth the new testament call upon thine angle of attack to be confirmed through the use of airspeed
 
Cleric: "And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
 
By default many larger airports will give me intersection takeoff options, ofcourse I'm flying a backcountry airplane or a quasi turbine backcountry airplane, not a F104 or something.


Biggest one for me, thou shall never stop flying thy aircraft.
 
Stingray Don said:
Thou shalt always verify thy contents of thy Gatorade bottle before thy drinketh
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My primary CFI claims to have fallen victim to this. His bit of added wisdom was to make sure your Gatorade was any flavor but Lemon-Lime.
 
AggieMike88 said:
Cleric: "And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
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That's a whole lot of rigmarole over a bloody rabbit!
 
Thou shall want to do due diligence before entering the pattern and know where the traffic is, thus atitppa.
 
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