{"id":1262,"date":"2016-11-10T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2016-11-10T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:43:26","slug":"being-a-good-stick-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/being-a-good-stick-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a good stick is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being a &#8220;good stick&#8221; is not enough. Good pilots are thinking their way through the air as well as simply moving controls. What comes next in flight is absolutely as important as what is happening right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jack J. Pelton<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaa.org\">EAA<\/a> CEO, <em>Sport Aviation<\/em> magazine, Nov 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1263\" src=\"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F.jpg\" alt=\"stick and rudder\" width=\"1200\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jack-F-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Being ahead of the plane&#8221; they call it. And if you can always answer the question, &#8220;what are the next two things,&#8221; then you are really mentally ahead\u2014pilot not passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a &#8220;good stick&#8221; is not enough. Good pilots are thinking their way through the air as well as simply moving controls. What comes next in flight is absolutely as important as what is happening right now. Jack J. Pelton EAA CEO, Sport Aviation magazine, Nov 2016 &#8220;Being ahead of the plane&#8221; they call it. And if you can always answer the question, &#8220;what are the next two things,&#8221; then you are really mentally ahead\u2014pilot not passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[29,47,12,58,14,59],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-airmanship","tag-awareness","tag-habit","tag-mindset","tag-time-management","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}