Light Aircraft Flyers Association   (LAFA)

 Miami, Florida - U.S.A.

Florida's First "Sport Pilot" Flying Club

Favorite Flying Quotes

People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly.

But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.

— Jack Handey, 'Deep Thoughts from Saturday Night Live.'

If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage/classic helicopter fly-ins?

— Anon.

Real planes use only a single stick to fly. This is why bulldozers & helicopters -- in that order -- need two.

— Paul Slattery

The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the ones that you can't train for that kill you.

Ernest Gann

When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible.

Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII

(...and more recently to LAFA pilots at X-51)

It's better to break ground and head into the wind than to break wind and head into the ground.

Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

— Captain Oveur, from the 1980 movie 'Airplane.'

Arguing with a pilot is like wrestling with a pig in the mud.    After a while you realize the pig likes it.

— Seen on a General Dynamics bulletin board

You know you’re flying an ultralight when you have a bird strike...

... from behind.

Captain Oveur: "Ya ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: "No sir, I've never been up in a plane before!
Captain Oveur: "Ya ever seen a grown man naked?

                         — from the 1980 movie 'Airplane.'

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder pedals.

- Harry Bill

Either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.    - Charles Lindbergh, 1931

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.      - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

The propeller is just a big fan on the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. If it stops he will sweat. 

A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one in which you can use the plane again.

It is better to be down here wishing you were up there than to be up there wishing you were down here.

Basic rules of flying:

1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.

2. Do not go near the edges of it.

3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.