Comment by seanvk
5 hours ago
My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.
5 hours ago
My Dad, a flight instructor, loves to remind me that there are bold pilots and old pilots. But there are no old bold pilots.
Chuck Yeager seemed pretty bold and died at 96.
Yay, one old bold pilot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager
If you think you have the skill and luck of Chuck Yeager, by all means, go fly boldly.
One of my old coworkers was a retired navy captain who used to be an instructor at Top Gun and had hundreds of night carrier landings. He told me that he'd have to be forced at gunpoint to fly on a small general aviation airplane, it's just too dangerous.
Maybe their dad only started saying this in the past three decades
Chuck Yeager was a very skilled pilot with inhumanly good vision and ridiculously good luck. He's also a good demonstration of survivorship bias.