Originally Posted by HeavyDriver
When everything is working and the weather is good...Anyone can fly anything...It's when the poop hits the fan and the weather is crap that shows the true ability of airmanship...What's that saying?..."Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous, but to an even greater degree then the sea, it is terribly unforgiving for any incapacity, inability, and neglect....Something like that.
I've always said that my company paid me not so much to fly airplanes as they did to exercise good and solid judgement when flying airplanes.