Izabella Scorupco Quotes

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.

All astronauts, even civilians like me without pilot experience, have to learn how to co-pilot a jet called a T-38.

I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.