Matt Hall is a former fighter combat instructor and international unlimited aerobatic competitor who now competes in the Red Bull air races. His latest airmanship blog post takes a look at the recent Harrison Ford and SpaceShipTwo crashes. It’s worth reading.
Don’t judge an incident or accident based on the outcome.
We always need to look deeper…the preparation, the planning, the routine and the overall situational awareness of the pilot at the time of the event.
~ Matt Hall
“I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.”
~ Will Smith. Interview in Esquire magazine, March 2015.
“Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.”
I normally do my mindfulness exercises in the morning. It’s the first thing I do when I get up.
~ Kobe Bryant
I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I get up and get it in. I’m addicted to the high function. To me it’s a work thing—if you meditate, you can get so much work done. I always say to people you know how about three nights a year you get a good night sleep? You can have it every day with meditation.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
When I first started thinking about the Inner Art of Airmanship, I was looking for the common connections between all kinds of flying.
Sometimes we find deeper truths that connect more diverse activities. Like how how search for the simplicity of a single line links a seventieth century French painter, Zen brush art, the trajectory of space missions, Formula 1’s racing line around a bend — and flying. See the wind, the energy, the traffic, and draw a line in the sky.
