We believe this will enhance ATA's ability to attract the capital necessary to reorganize. By making these sacrifices, our cockpit crew members will help to secure a better future for themselves and their fellow employees.
Quotes about cockpit (16 Quotes)
They prepared us for it. The people in the cockpit were very calm, cool and collected. They said smoke was there but they didn't see any when they landed, so I think they got most of it out. But, we were better once we landed, all of the nerves were a little more at ease.
I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Not only are words important on a tape but sounds are important, ... Quite often spectral analysis of noises or other sorts of clunks and clinks can be identified by members of the cockpit voice recording group.
Nine Racing will run a selected number of the remaining 2005 USAC races under the Ford banner, ... however, we'll have a different driver, or drivers, in our cockpit. I am saddened by Bobby's departure as our goal this year was to win another Midget Championship with him, but I understand his decision and wish both his father and him much success in the future.
Kayak polo's a good excuse to put on a skirt and play a sport, ... When you play in a white-water kayak, which is a closed cockpit boat, you wear a short, black waterproof skirt you stretch over the kayak's top edges to keep water from coming inside.
This was extremely disappointing. When you get in the cockpit, this is serious business.
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
There is a real balance between risk and return in racing. Inside the cockpit, when everything is very quiet, very smooth, you get your fastest time. In investing, if you are easily distracted and let your emotions get the best of you, you end up making decisions that are sub-optimal.
If you already have departed the gate and you now get caught up in a two- to three-hour weather delay and you know you will go over your duty day, then you will have to turn around and go back, climb out of the cockpit, and the chances of getting a backup pilot will be very difficult. So in most cases, that flight will be canceled.
Once ratified, we believe this will enhance ATA's ability to attract the capital necessary to reorganize, ... By making these sacrifices, our cockpit crewmembers will help to secure a better future for themselves and their fellow employees. The Company appreciates their contribution.
I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.
LINDBERGH FLIES ALONE Alone Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given.
I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.