how to be the good pilot?

Answer 1

Here are two sites related to becoming a pilot and aviation safety:
http://www.jets.com/Jet_Card.aspx
http://360.yahoo.com/private_jet_charter

This site covers pilot safety:
http://www.aopa.org/asf/

In a nutshell, attention to detail is the primary attribute which makes a good pilot. Complacency and risk taking are the two attributes which make a bad pilot.

Good luck with the flying!

Answer 2

Remember this premise...
"There are Bold pilots and there are old Pilots... there are no Old Bold Pilots".

This is a motto my father lives by. A Marine fighter pilot, Blue Angel Pilot, NASA Astronaut, and Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal recipient (and more than once); and if all that wasn't enough, he was a Black Sheep; I guess he would know.

Their are no short cuts to pre-flight; there are no short cuts to the checklists. DO NOT rely on your memory for your checklist, have it in front of you.

Safety before anything else. If you aren't dead on sure, then don't.

Here in Alaska, we have more aircraft accidents than anywhere else... and most of them are PE (Pilot error). Weather here changes in an instant, and will leave you smacking into the face of some unnamed mountain in the middle of nowhere; be prepared!

Err on the side of caution.

Above all else, live the dream, to fly untethered from the earth, even if for only a brief time, sore with the birds, the Eagles, and view the creation from his perspective.

Answer 3

no crashing the plane.