Cory Lidle Quotes

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

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

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

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.

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

A plane is of no use without the man or woman who flies it!

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 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.

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.

I don't play a lot of games. I play flight simulators, mostly.

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.