{"id":1515,"date":"2017-04-15T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2017-04-15T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T18:18:20","slug":"roger-cruickshank-on-the-perfect-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/roger-cruickshank-on-the-perfect-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Cruickshank on the perfect flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Cruickshank is a front-line\u00a0RAF Typhoon pilot. The Queen’s version of Top Gun<\/em>‘s \u2018best of the best, tip of the spear\u2019. He\u00a0has intercepted 22 different Russian aircraft, including the Tu-95 Bear, Tu-160 Blackjack, Il-78 Midas, Su-34 Fullback, Mig-31 Foxhound and An-26 Curl. Before this posting he was a RAF flight instructor and Olympic skier.<\/p>\n

So when he talks about making mistakes and perfect flights, we might all learn something. Turns out, he’s not perfect. But he knows it. And he knows how to keep getting closer.<\/p>\n

This quote is from the\u00a0(excellent) aerospace podcast Xtended<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0episode 65<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not anywhere where I want to be, because I think we are perfectionists.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re always trying to be the best we can, and to get better and better at the skill because you always miss something, every single flight. If someone was to tell me that, \u201cno no, I had a perfect flight\u201d \u2014 they were absolutely lying. There is no way!<\/p>\n

We are always making mistakes. As long as we admit to them and be honest about them, then everyone learns, we learn, and we get better at what we\u2019re doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s the perpetual pursuit. And if any pilot thinks they’ve had a perfect flight, they are just situational unaware!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Cruickshank is a front-line\u00a0RAF Typhoon pilot. The Queen’s version of Top Gun‘s \u2018best of the best, tip of the spear\u2019. He\u00a0has intercepted 22 different Russian aircraft, including the Tu-95 Bear, Tu-160 Blackjack, Il-78 Midas, Su-34 Fullback, Mig-31 Foxhound and An-26 Curl. Before this posting he was a RAF flight instructor and Olympic skier. So when he talks about making mistakes and perfect flights, we might all learn something. Turns out, he’s not perfect. But he knows it. And he knows how to keep getting closer. This quote is from the\u00a0(excellent) aerospace podcast Xtended,\u00a0episode 65: I\u2019m not anywhere where I … Continue reading Roger Cruickshank on the perfect flight<\/a><\/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":[65,45,67,82,46,149],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-error","tag-mastery","tag-military-ops","tag-perfection","tag-perpetual-pursuit","tag-raf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}