Comments on: How Flying Improved My Life http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/ General Aviation and Aviation In General Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: When it's urgent to do nothing - Patience as a flying virtue | Plastic Pilot http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-13691 When it's urgent to do nothing - Patience as a flying virtue | Plastic Pilot Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:01:59 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/#comment-13691 [...] A final example of situation where patience is the sole option is weather. Any pilot blocked by fog or stratus has no other possibility than waiting. It’s also important to resist the temptation to take-off at the first sign of a possibility. Doing so is the best way to find yourself locked on-top, or VFR in IMC. My level of patience and resilience is one of the many aspects of my life that were improved by flying. [...] [...] A final example of situation where patience is the sole option is weather. Any pilot blocked by fog or stratus has no other possibility than waiting. It’s also important to resist the temptation to take-off at the first sign of a possibility. Doing so is the best way to find yourself locked on-top, or VFR in IMC. My level of patience and resilience is one of the many aspects of my life that were improved by flying. [...]

]]> By: The positive effects of flying in your life! - Page 2 - PPRuNe Forums http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-9961 The positive effects of flying in your life! - Page 2 - PPRuNe Forums Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:58:44 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/#comment-9961 [...] I blogged about that earlier this year - changes in my life, not the club - and got a couple of readers reaction, all going in the same direction: decision making, patience, resillience, and humility. Read more under PlasticPilot.net How Flying Improved My Life [...] [...] I blogged about that earlier this year – changes in my life, not the club – and got a couple of readers reaction, all going in the same direction: decision making, patience, resillience, and humility. Read more under PlasticPilot.net How Flying Improved My Life [...]

]]> By: Don Dinwiddie http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2916 Don Dinwiddie Tue, 06 May 2008 17:33:07 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/#comment-2916 Yesterday, nearly fifty-one years after washing out of radio instruments in naval aviation flight training, I took my first flight lesson in a C152. I am going back. If not now, when? Washing out was a step in learning humility. I have had more occasions to learn the same over the years. I will not pray to be taught poverty. Met some young German students at St. Augustine, Florida. The euro buys a lot of training over here. Nice looking, focused young men. Yesterday, nearly fifty-one years after washing out of radio instruments in naval aviation flight training, I took my first flight lesson in a C152. I am going back. If not now, when?

Washing out was a step in learning humility. I have had more occasions to learn the same over the years. I will not pray to be taught poverty.

Met some young German students at St. Augustine, Florida. The euro buys a lot of training over here. Nice looking, focused young men.

]]> By: PlasticPilot http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2915 PlasticPilot Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:54 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/#comment-2915 Self-confidence ! How could I have missed it ? Thank you Pat. Self-confidence ! How could I have missed it ? Thank you Pat.

]]> By: Pat http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2904 Pat Tue, 06 May 2008 07:23:59 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/05/05/how-flying-improved-my-life/#comment-2904 Flying had exactly the same effect on me. More, it also greatly improved my self-confidence. Flying had exactly the same effect on me.
More, it also greatly improved my self-confidence.

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