Republican Flight Manual

That these are unordered is not a bug, it's a future.

All take-offs are optional. All landings are mandatory.

Flight is not inherently dangerous ; crashes are.

Propellers are nothing more than large fans, installed there to keep the pilot cool. This is readily verified if they ever stop : the pilot starts sweating.

When in doubt during flight, keep altitude. No one has yet managed to crash into sky.

A good landing is one you can walk out of. An excellent landing is one which leaves the machinery involved in a repairable state.

Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you need full engine power to taxi, it's possible you landed wheels-up.

Operating aircraft in perfect safety requires the minute observation of three simple rules. Unfortunately nobody has yet figured out what exactly they are.

Helicopters can't actually fly, they're merely so ungodly ugly the Earth is actively repulsed.

If all you can see is a spinning horizon and all you can hear is excited screaming, it is conceivable the flight is not proceeding as planned.

In the constant confrontation between man-made objects hurling themselves down at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour and the Earth hurling itself up at zero kilometers per hour, the Earth is still making progress.

Proper thinking comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience comes from improper thinking.

Everyone starts with a pouch full of good luck and an empty experience tank. The trick is to fill the latter before you empty the former.

"My first life didn't like to fly either" is a fine label for the parachute hatch.

Flying a plane is a lot like riding a bicycle. With some practice you can even stick baseball cards in the spokes.

The odds against there being a bomb on your plane are significant ; but the odds against being two bombs on any plane are even greater. Next time you fly don't forget to pack a bomb for safety.

There's a strict relation between the intensity of turbulence and the temperature of coffee.

The common man is actually better equipped for flying on his own power than he is for making up his own mind.

It's all in the cards : if you down a lot of enemy planes they'll call you an ace, if you down a lot of your own planes they'll call you a joker.

As you can probably guess, this is a work in progress.

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Monday, 09 October, Year 9 d.Tr.