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Air mistakes can kill you

Selfies aloft? Pictures are worth a thousand words. When I was just getting started in aviation, my flight instructor had this poster on his wall, which showed an old bi-wing plane crashed nose first into this barren tree, standing tall in an empty field. With it was this quote: “Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”That drove home a point: don’t get careless, and don’t grow neglectful (do a thorough pre-flight inspection of the plane, etc., keep track of how much ...

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