No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.
Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity; an airplane flies because of money. It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn' em back off.
A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enoughto be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone. An airplane flies because of a principle discovered by Bernoulli, not Marconi.
"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
IFR: I Follow Roads.
Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.
Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink whiskey from a dirty glass.
Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runways behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The airspeed you don't have.
If God meant man to fly, He'd have given him more money.
Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs.
Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.
An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
Any pilot who relies on a terminal forecast can be sold the Brooklyn Bridge. If he relies on winds-aloft reports he can be sold Niagara Falls.
The friendliest flight attendants are those on the trip home.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.
The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
It's a good landing if you can still get the doors open.
Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.
The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
If an earthquake suddenly opened a fissure in a runway that caused an accident, the FAA would find a way to blame it on pilot error.
Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.
A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You start with a large fortune.
A fool and his money are soon flying more airplane than he can handle.
The last thing every pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
The difference between a fighter pilot & a pig?
A pig doesn't sit at a bar until 0300 waiting to pick up a fighter pilot.
2007-08-23
2007-04-09
征服天空…
96.6.14 請了年假, 換了錢, 東西收一收上飛機走人。

去年12月去的時候,有點半參觀、半玩樂的心態;這次去是花錢上課,所有開銷能省則省,自己上網找機票最便宜的宿霧太平洋航空公司,台北馬尼拉來回,大約新台幣4000塊,就跟松山到高雄來回一趟價格差不多!
下飛機自己拿著大包小包行李去搭巴士,省錢沒叫計程車,走走停停塞了兩個半小時,逃離馬尼拉到克拉克經濟特區。早上10點離開中和家裡,晚上9點才到旅館!沒想到這只是災難的開始... 才剛到旅館,當天晚上就遇到大停電…沒冷氣!! 又熱又累昏迷一晚!!
原本計畫隔天早上和學校的辦事員再去一次馬尼拉,去菲律賓的民航局航醫中心做體檢,因為我事先不知道要準備胸部X片和ECG心電圖,所以先去附近醫院檢查,等有報告之後再去體檢。耗了一個早上,決定下午回學校開始上課…
地面學科一共12科:
1. Theory of Flight 飛行原理
2. Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR) 菲律賓民航法規
3. Basic Aircraft Instrument 基本儀器
4. Aircraft Powerplant 飛機動力
5. ATC & Communications 航空管制
6. Airplane Performance 飛機性能
7. Weight and Balance 載重平衡
8. Basic Meteorology 氣象學
9. Basic Air Navigation 基本航行學
10. Aviation Physiology 航空生理學
11. Basic Radio Naviation 無線電航行學
12. Flight Plan 飛行計畫
教學用的模型飛機,中間休息的時候照的,台灣買不到!!
姿態儀裡面的陀螺儀構造…真神奇!!
體檢沒過之前不能飛…怎麼辦?那就一直上課,上到天昏地暗、日月無光!每天回旅館之前,再丟一些功課叫你回家看到爽!隔天考試!
通常我早上在7-11吃完早餐,再買一個叉燒包當午餐,因為學校旁邊餐廳的廚師欠錢不見了,不提供熱食,只有泡麵和熱水…等下課再吃個像樣的晚餐!
學校的跑道和滑行道…
菲律賓航空的訓練機…飛機是它們自己的;地和廠房是跟我們學校租的!
去年12月去的時候,有點半參觀、半玩樂的心態;這次去是花錢上課,所有開銷能省則省,自己上網找機票最便宜的宿霧太平洋航空公司,台北馬尼拉來回,大約新台幣4000塊,就跟松山到高雄來回一趟價格差不多!
地面學科一共12科:
1. Theory of Flight 飛行原理
2. Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR) 菲律賓民航法規
3. Basic Aircraft Instrument 基本儀器
4. Aircraft Powerplant 飛機動力
5. ATC & Communications 航空管制
6. Airplane Performance 飛機性能
7. Weight and Balance 載重平衡
8. Basic Meteorology 氣象學
9. Basic Air Navigation 基本航行學
10. Aviation Physiology 航空生理學
11. Basic Radio Naviation 無線電航行學
12. Flight Plan 飛行計畫
他們的法規規定:地面學科要上滿90小時,那一科要上多久? 90/12=7.5 OK?
有多少人上課? 只有我一個人上課,教室只有老師和我兩個人…
有多少人上課? 只有我一個人上課,教室只有老師和我兩個人…
體檢沒過之前不能飛…怎麼辦?那就一直上課,上到天昏地暗、日月無光!每天回旅館之前,再丟一些功課叫你回家看到爽!隔天考試!
好了!體檢這天終於來了,大清早六點搭巴士花2小時去馬尼拉!
其實他們的民航局(ATO)真的不怎麼樣!只有大門能看,裡面辦公室就一副50、60年代的樣子,沒有中央空調一樣,每間辦公室都有一台窗型冷氣,超級大聲,吵得要命!歌林去賣無聲靜音冷氣,搞不好會賺大錢!
8點多到了之後,等到9點多快10點才開始看。好不容易輪我了,醫生卻說我的心電圖需要【再檢查一次】時,有如晴天霹靂,心冷了一半,我馬上問:可以現在做嗎?不行!醫生11點半就休息回家了!Maybe tomorrow!or next week!
接著我用最尊敬的眼神,向醫生半鞠躬點了個頭,再加上到菲律賓之後第一次說的中文國罵:”xxx”!”What?” “which means thank you very much in mandarin”!
又要等幾天?!心情超惡劣!因為飛行課程又要被延誤下去了!不管了!今天自己先來去吃喝到爽!
新發現!到菲律賓幾天以來,我覺得唯一漢堡沒縮水變小的速食店---“ 溫蒂 ”!
最起碼跟廣告板上的圖片不會差太多!
回學校繼續上地面學科,再等3、4天再去檢查一次。Carlos,我的地面學科老師之一,他聽完我抱怨之後說:”ATO always makes difficult things easy, and easy things more difficult! So, that’s why they are ATO.”
沒得選擇,繼續上課,考試…心想如果真的體檢不過,那就退錢!帶著遺憾回家!
至少我已經試過了!
3天後,又被該死的馬尼拉交通折磨一次!到了航醫中心,醫生要求健走30分鐘同時檢查心臟是否有問題,所以我才這身打扮,看起來有點蠢!
“OK!Now You Can Fly!”
“No more coffee、No more cigarette!”or“No fly!”
其實他們的民航局(ATO)真的不怎麼樣!只有大門能看,裡面辦公室就一副50、60年代的樣子,沒有中央空調一樣,每間辦公室都有一台窗型冷氣,超級大聲,吵得要命!歌林去賣無聲靜音冷氣,搞不好會賺大錢!
8點多到了之後,等到9點多快10點才開始看。好不容易輪我了,醫生卻說我的心電圖需要【再檢查一次】時,有如晴天霹靂,心冷了一半,我馬上問:可以現在做嗎?不行!醫生11點半就休息回家了!Maybe tomorrow!or next week!
接著我用最尊敬的眼神,向醫生半鞠躬點了個頭,再加上到菲律賓之後第一次說的中文國罵:”xxx”!”What?” “which means thank you very much in mandarin”!
又要等幾天?!心情超惡劣!因為飛行課程又要被延誤下去了!不管了!今天自己先來去吃喝到爽!
最起碼跟廣告板上的圖片不會差太多!
至少我已經試過了!
3天後,又被該死的馬尼拉交通折磨一次!到了航醫中心,醫生要求健走30分鐘同時檢查心臟是否有問題,所以我才這身打扮,看起來有點蠢!
“No more coffee、No more cigarette!”or“No fly!”
2007-02-16
接近天空…My First Flight...
95.12.26 TPE-MNL / BR271

到了馬尼拉之後,又搭了2小時計程車,才到克拉克經濟特區。
下午, 我在菲律賓的OMNI Aviation跨出擁向天空的第一步!
心想沒事,下午便花了40分鐘從旅館走路逛到學校,不浪費時間馬上安排第一節課( Orientation
Flight ),見到我的飛行教官Mike,他才26歲!
這是一架有點老的小飛機,CESSNA152,機號 RP-C1049,只能坐2個人!看到機艙裡有點熟悉、又有一點陌生的儀表( 哈!玩過模擬飛行^^ ),怎麼第一次飛上天,教官就叫我坐左座正駕駛的位子?!他在開玩笑喔…16:00 上飛機!
做完起飛檢查之後,我咧!他是認真的…. 心一橫,走!本來以為自己會手忙腳亂的!結果還好,大多都能達到他的要求,除了轉彎掉高度之外…原本一直以為自己的方向感不錯,結果上了天轉了幾個彎之後,機場在哪都搞不清楚了!
到了馬尼拉之後,又搭了2小時計程車,才到克拉克經濟特區。
下午, 我在菲律賓的OMNI Aviation跨出擁向天空的第一步!
心想沒事,下午便花了40分鐘從旅館走路逛到學校,不浪費時間馬上安排第一節課( Orientation
Flight ),見到我的飛行教官Mike,他才26歲!
這是一架有點老的小飛機,CESSNA152,機號 RP-C1049,只能坐2個人!看到機艙裡有點熟悉、又有一點陌生的儀表( 哈!玩過模擬飛行^^ ),怎麼第一次飛上天,教官就叫我坐左座正駕駛的位子?!他在開玩笑喔…16:00 上飛機!
做完起飛檢查之後,我咧!他是認真的…. 心一橫,走!本來以為自己會手忙腳亂的!結果還好,大多都能達到他的要求,除了轉彎掉高度之外…原本一直以為自己的方向感不錯,結果上了天轉了幾個彎之後,機場在哪都搞不清楚了!
12/29
和小波1051飛去蘇比克灣國際機場,一路爬升到3500英尺以上,氣流非常穩...
感覺還蠻爽的!!在蘇比克國際機場作了兩次Touch and Go…6塊美金…值得啦!
2006-06-10
2006-01-15
Can't go home...
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