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by bombcar 1056 days ago
My CFI said "graveyards are full of people the world couldn't do without, it can wait a day" - important to remember for many things, if you start pushing your luck it'll eventually push back.
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“NTSB investigators usually wear sunglasses.”

Meaning that will likely be investigating your weather accident in the sunshine, so you could just wait a short while and fly in that good weather rather than crashing right now.

"The problem with scud running is it often works" - this is really important because if dangerous things killed everyone who tried them, nobody would try them anymore.

But if you put yourself in a precarious position, eventually it will catch up to you, and you HAVE to force yourself to avoid those positions, no matter how tempting.

“We can wait and get there late, or leave now and it’ll take the rest of our lives to get there…”
"Wait and late or now and plow" was mine :)

I wonder if CFIs could basically be replaced by ChatGPT making pithy statements about "don't fly into weather you idiots". Probably too polite, though.