A Try and See Catastrophe: R44 Accident in Norway in Bad Weather - Aerossurance A low experience pilot waits for the weather to improve but likely suffers from confirmation bias and takes off later in the day on what the AIBN call a “try and see” basis. Video footage from a GoPro...

#OTD 2019 A low experience pilot waits for the weather to improve but likely suffers confirmation bias and takes off later in the day on what the AIBN call a “try and see” basis. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship #humanfactors

Fatal R44 Loss of Control Accident: "Overweight and Out of Balance" Say NTSB - Aerossurance A flight with friends for lunch turned deadly when mass and balance calculations were skipped claims NTSB. The survivor said: "Everything was white for a split second...I remember the intense pain, th...

OTD 2018 The survivor said: "Everything was white for a split second...I remember the intense pain, the taste of blood, the broken glass and crumpled metal around me...". aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #aviationsafety #flightsafety #airmanship

#OTD 2014: A bizjet crew pressed on in fog and may have made a VNAV selection error. 'Tensions' amongst the crew are reported and 'insufficient CRM' cited. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #accident #aviationsafety #flightsafety #humanfactors #airmanship #businessaviation

#OTD 2019 PC-12 fatal accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYVd... #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship

#OTD 2018: ATR72 Survives Water Impact During Unstabilised Approach
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#OTD 2017 Teterboro Learjet 35A N452DA LOC-I on Approach youtu.be/BML2lfqaK-4 #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship #crm

#OTD in 2013 #USAF MC-12W Loss of Control Orbiting Over #Afghanistan: Lessons in Training and Urgent Operational Requirements aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #aviationsafety #flightsafety #airmanship #training #certification #humanfactors

#OTD 2013 Hawker Beechcraft 390 Premier IA N26DK fatal accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PD... #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship

Darren Pleasance, COE AOPA, in the cockpit.

#airmanship #flying

“What good pilots consistently do is perfect their foundational skills. They practice — they live — on airmanship. It’s courtesy, consistency, and core competency.”

Darren Pleasance, new President and CEO of AOPA, in Pursuit of Excellence, AOPA PILOT magazine March 2025.

DC-3s, Warbird Pilots, and the Art of Flying with Martha Lunken Few pilots have lived as interesting a life as Martha Lunken: from giving checkrides in DC-3s to teaching Neil Armstrong’s wife to fly, she has met some of aviation’s most colorful characters and flow...

#flying #airmanship

“Flying the DC-3: “Like dancing with your great aunt—you just kinda push it around the sky.”

“A lot of people [think], ‘as long as I can get it on the ground going fairly straight, that’s OK.’ Well no it isn’t. That’s not the art of flying.”

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A Try and See Catastrophe: R44 Accident in Norway in Bad Weather - Aerossurance A low experience pilot waits for the weather to improve but likely suffers from confirmation bias and takes off later in the day on what the AIBN call a “try and see” basis. Video footage from a GoPro...

#OTD 2019 A low experience pilot waits for the weather to improve but likely suffers confirmation bias and takes off later in the day on what the AIBN call a “try and see” basis. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship #humanfactors

#OTD 2014: A bizjet crew pressed on in fog and may have made a VNAV selection error. 'Tensions' amongst the crew are reported and 'insufficient #CRM' cited.
aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #accident #aviationsafety #flightsafety #humanfactors #airmanship #businessaviation #CFIT

The Conductor Daniel Harding Moonlights as a Pilot for Air France Daniel Harding scaled the heights of classical music. Then he set out to conquer the skies.

#flying #airmanship #pilotlife #mastery

“Nobody wants to listen to a concert — or be on a plane — when the leader is on high-voltage tension from beginning to end. You have to learn to breathe.”

Daniel Harding, Air France pilot and orchestral conductor.

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OTD 2019 PC-12 fatal accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYVd... #flightsafety #aviationsafety #airmanship

“The sea is no respector of ships or persons. The sea is always ready, at the first sign of failure, to rush in and destroy the very craft it so readily supports.”

~ Felix Riesenberg, 1922.

#airmanship #seamanship #pilotlife #flying

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”

~ Annie Van De Wiele. Belgian sailor, navigator, writer. #pilotlife #airmanship #safety

"Technology cannot replace pilots." Great article by Sully Sullenberger: @CaptSully #airmanship

"Seamanship still determines the odds of leaving and returning to port in good order." Just like #airmanship

The journey is the thing. Don't shortcut yourself. #inner #art #airmanship

As a pilot you are always thinking 'What's the next thing that's going to kill me” ~ @Cmdr_Hadfield #airmanship #flying

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned. ~ John Millington Synge #flying #airmanship #pilot

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine ~ Suzuki #airmanship #flying

Consistency of practice is the mark of the master ~ George Leonard #airmanship

Flying is an art, an imperceptible art ~ Harrison Ford #flying #pilot #airmanship