turbojet28
Well-Known Member
Hello,
I just got finished reading the book "Redefining Airmanship" by USAF Col. Tony Kern. I would just like to share a few thoughts. I thought this book was outstanding. If you haven't read it before, I highly recommend reading it. The book will walk you through what it is that gives an aviator excellent (at least in the opinion of the author, and I agree) airmanship, skill, and proficiency. This book will walk you through the consequences of practicing poor discipline and cutting corners. It gives you real-life examples of how it is critical to be disciplined and practice good airmanship. It makes you think many times "man, I have really been tempted to behave that way while flying an airplane."
This book really has given me motivation to seek to be a professional aviator at all levels, on the ground or in the air. It was great motivation to seek to personally improve myself and to evaluate and asess the risks associated with decisons, lack of discipline in flying operations, and the flight enviornment in general.
I was really compelled by MikeD's story of his prof's daughters. That could bring a tear to your eye. That along with many, many circumstances just like the incident about which the thread MikeD's post is in was started, and my reading of "Redefining Airmanship" have inspired me to ask myself "is it really worth it to try and impress myself and others by bending the rules and being a 'hot shot'?"
I am glad I have read this book as a young aviator; it has inspired me to make a life-long commitment to knowledgeable, safe flying operations, respecting the risk associated with the decisons we make while at the controls of these machines. I invite you all to make the same commitment if you haven't already done so. I think we owe it to ourselves, our passengers, and the people whom we fly over.
I just got finished reading the book "Redefining Airmanship" by USAF Col. Tony Kern. I would just like to share a few thoughts. I thought this book was outstanding. If you haven't read it before, I highly recommend reading it. The book will walk you through what it is that gives an aviator excellent (at least in the opinion of the author, and I agree) airmanship, skill, and proficiency. This book will walk you through the consequences of practicing poor discipline and cutting corners. It gives you real-life examples of how it is critical to be disciplined and practice good airmanship. It makes you think many times "man, I have really been tempted to behave that way while flying an airplane."
This book really has given me motivation to seek to be a professional aviator at all levels, on the ground or in the air. It was great motivation to seek to personally improve myself and to evaluate and asess the risks associated with decisons, lack of discipline in flying operations, and the flight enviornment in general.
I was really compelled by MikeD's story of his prof's daughters. That could bring a tear to your eye. That along with many, many circumstances just like the incident about which the thread MikeD's post is in was started, and my reading of "Redefining Airmanship" have inspired me to ask myself "is it really worth it to try and impress myself and others by bending the rules and being a 'hot shot'?"
I am glad I have read this book as a young aviator; it has inspired me to make a life-long commitment to knowledgeable, safe flying operations, respecting the risk associated with the decisons we make while at the controls of these machines. I invite you all to make the same commitment if you haven't already done so. I think we owe it to ourselves, our passengers, and the people whom we fly over.
