Speeches - adapted for aviation

[HercFeend]

I took a few minutes away from my books and thought I'd post some rubbish........ feel free to join in.

This is my aeroplane. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me my aeroplane is useless. Without my aeroplane, I am useless.
I must fly my aeroplane true.
I must fly straight and level because gravity is trying to kill me.
I must overcome him before he overcomes me. I will.
My aeroplane and I know that what counts in flight is not the hours we fly, the crackle of our radio, or the sweet noise we make. We know that it is how we fly that counts.
We will touch down on airfields gently.

My aeroplane is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its instruments and its engine.
I will keep my aeroplane clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.

Before the CFI I swear this creed. My aeroplane and I are the defenders of my flying dream. We endeavour to be the masters of our skies.

So be it, until a PPL, CPL, IR, ME & an ATPL is mine and there be no more text books to read....... until a type rating come along

[Bazza]

Very nice - for most of the people here, substitute the word Computer for Aeroplane and it say's a lot.....

[ZK-Brock]

QUOTE (HercFeend @ Oct 27 2008, 05:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I took a few minutes away from my books and thought I'd post some rubbish........ feel free to join in.

This is my aeroplane. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me my aeroplane is useless. Without my aeroplane, I am useless.
I must fly my aeroplane true.
I must fly straight and level because gravity is trying to kill me.
I must overcome him before he overcomes me. I will.
My aeroplane and I know that what counts in flight is not the hours we fly, the crackle of our radio, or the sweet noise we make. We know that it is how we fly that counts.
We will touch down on airfields gently.

My aeroplane is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its instruments and its engine.
I will keep my aeroplane clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.

Before the CFI I swear this creed. My aeroplane and I are the defenders of my flying dream. We endeavour to be the masters of our skies.

So be it, until a PPL, CPL, IR, ME & an ATPL is mine and there be no more text books to read....... until a type rating come along

"The aviator's creed" - awesome, I especially like "because gravity is trying to kill me"