• Docendo Discimus...We learn by teaching. When by yourself, you are the instructor.

  • You don't know what you don't know.

  • Much of what you think you know is incorrect.

  • Together, we must find out why you don't know what you don't know.

  • It is practice of the right kind that makes perfect.

  • You will never do well if you stop doing better.

  • Students never fail, only teachers do.

  • A student's performance is not so much a reflection on the student, as it is on the instructor's ability to teach.

  • Learning is not a straight line up...let the teacher set the standards of performance.

  • Much of learning to fly is to unlearn preconceptions and habits.

  • Unlearning is a very necessary and difficult part of learning to fly.

  • The way you are first taught and learn a procedure is the way you will react in an emergency. It's important
    to learn right the first time.

  • You learn according to what you bring into the situation.

  • Being prepared for a flight saves you money by saving time.

  • Given the choice, make the safe decision.

  • If you must make a mistake, make it a new one.

  • One problem is a problem, two problems are a hazard; three problems create accidents.

  • It's great to be good; even better to be lucky.

  • Trusting to luck alone is not conducive to an extended flying career.

  • We progress through repeated success; we learn through our mistakes.

  • An instructors knowledge is proportional to the mistakes he's made

  • My writings use the editorial "he" for convenience not because of any sexism.

  • However, left handers have an advantage.

  • Good habits deteriorate over time and bad habits take root.

  • Accidents happen when you run out of experience.

  • Self instruction is the garden that raises bad habits.

  • Our failures teach us. If you want to increase your chances of success, double your efforts.

  • ... almost always. Nothing is always.

  • Luck will do for skill, but not consistently.

  • One should never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity in a teacher. It challenges the teacher, too,
    when occurring in a student.

  • The nice thing about a mistake is the pleasure it gives others.

  • If you fly long enough the 'answer' is going to be "Carburetor Heat".

  • Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

  • You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  • Flying, like life, is full of precluded possibilities. Can't do...won't do... shouldn't do...

  • What you know is not as important as what you do with it.

    Written by Gene Whitt