Life in the Skies Quotes

“There's a joke in the aviation industry that the ideal aircrew in today's modern aircraft would be comprised of a man and a dog. The dog is there to bite the man if he so much as tries to touch the controls, and the pilot's one remaining job is to feed the dog!”
― Lim Khoy Hing, Life in the Skies: Everything You Want to Know about Flying

“The other pilot may have been trying to be heroic but each time we pilots sign in to fly an aircraft we are duty-bound, morally and professionally, to operate the airplane as safely as possible. In all honesty, I'd rather be a coward than a dead hero.”
― Lim Khoy Hing, Life in the Skies: Everything You Want to Know about Flying

“While I was flying, I always encouraged my first officers to speak up if they had any questions or to query anything they were uncomfortable with. Pride and ego have no place in the cockpit and this is indoctrined into the flight crew constantly.”
― Lim Khoy Hing, Life in the Skies: Everything You Want to Know about Flying