{"id":1478,"date":"2014-02-26T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2014-02-26T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:35:42","slug":"rules-to-fly-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/rules-to-fly-by","title":{"rendered":"Rules to Fly By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These do the rounds on the internet from time to time.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n    <li>Pilots are people who fly aircraft for other people who can&#8217;t fly. Passengers are people who say they fly, but really just ride<\/li>\n    <li>Fighter Pilots are steely-eyed, weapons systems managers who kill bad people and break things. However, they can also be very charming and personable<\/li>\n    <li>The average fighter pilot, despite sometimes having a swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring. (However, these feelings don&#8217;t involve anyone else.)<\/li>\n    <li>Flying is a hard way to earn an easy living<\/li>\n    <li>Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane; the pessimist, the parachute<\/li>\n    <li>Death is just nature&#8217;s way of telling you to watch your airspeed<\/li>\n    <li>As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you (and one of them will):\n<ul>\n    <li>One day you will walk out to the aircraft, knowing it is your last flight<\/li>\n    <li>One day you will walk out to the aircraft, not knowing it is your last flight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>There are rules and there are laws:\n<ul>\n    <li>The rules are made by men who think that they know how to fly your aircraft better than you<\/li>\n    <li>The laws (of physics) were ordained by God<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n    <li>You can and sometimes should suspend the rules, but you can never suspend the laws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>About Rules:\n<ul>\n    <li>The rules are a good place to hide if you don&#8217;t have a\u00a0better idea and the talent to execute it<\/li>\n    <li>If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance (e.g., if you fly under a bridge, don&#8217;t hit the bridge.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>Before each flight, make sure that your bladder is empty and your fuel tanks are full<\/li>\n    <li>He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot; he who demands one iota more is a fool<\/li>\n    <li>There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night and over the ocean. Most of them are scary<\/li>\n    <li>The aircraft limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular aircraft. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no limits<\/li>\n    <li>&#8220;If the Wright brothers were alive today, Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.&#8221; (President, DELTA Airlines.)<\/li>\n    <li>In the Alaskan bush, I&#8217;d rather have a two-hour bladder and three hours of gas than vice versa<\/li>\n    <li>An old pilot is one who can remember when flying was dangerous and sex was safe<\/li>\n    <li>You have to make up your mind about growing up and becoming a pilot. You can&#8217;t do both<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These do the rounds on the internet from time to time. Pilots are people who fly aircraft for other people who can&#8217;t fly. Passengers are people who say they fly, but really just ride Fighter Pilots are steely-eyed, weapons systems managers who kill bad people and break things. However, they can also be very charming &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/flying\/rules-to-fly-by\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rules to Fly By&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[317,313],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying","tag-flying","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hang-out.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}