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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

We're planning a series of speakers, including some geared to the pilot community and others more geared to the general population and aviation history.

Teresa Day

Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines but it is even less than what is needed for a pilot project.

Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

Some people say accident. It may be an accident, it may be something else, ... very well equipped . . . the one I am flying all the time. I am not ruling anything out. Either the pilot panicked, or there was some side wind, or the instruments failed, or there was an external factor.

Yoweri Museveni

Brooks is a good pilot. He has been a pilot for years. I'd fly with him again tomorrow.

John Clarke

I wanted to be a pilot but I washed out. I washed out-I wanted to be a bombardier after that, but by then they didn't need any more bombardiers. So it was either electrical or mechanical and I couldn't mess with that electrical so that's how I became a mechanic.

Frank Pepe

This is really a pilot program for the state. If the program does well here, the state hopes to expand it to other schools across Florida.

Charlotte Emerson

It just shows that the governor's fundraising is on automatic pilot. Only when there's a spotlight cast on his activities will he ever think about returning the money.

Jamie Court

They ran out of fuel as the pilot was still negotiating with the hijackers at the time the plane hit the sea.

Bruce Thompson

I didn't have any idea what was happening. I just kept quiet and let him do what he needed. He's a good pilot. I trusted him to take care of us and he did.

Liz Youngwirth

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored.

John Wallace

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Joan Van Ark

He was kind of on auto pilot for the last part.

Tom Farnquist

It's pilot season. And I've got all these scripts flying in.

Tia Carrere

One thing we have continued to overlook as an industry is what's happening with the pilot population.

Phil Boyer

The pilot never stopped. He never slowed down.

Peter Murray

America did not have an air arm at all. So their quick fix was to contract with all of the 100-plus land-grant colleges to offer civilian pilot training.

Herbert Carter

Right now, we're using this as a pilot to see what the response is.

Ryndee Carney

For a long time, there wasn't much board scrutiny. Things worked on almost auto-pilot.

Gene Cisewski

All I ever knew was that my dad was a pilot of an F-106; he was killed because his ejection seat didn't work. And I guess that's the way it always was. I was so little when he died. I didn't ask a lot of questions.

Patricia Richardson Healy

I believe the pilot did an excellent job of bringing that airplane in.

Jeff Baum

We have on stream, a pilot project, to replace 10 per cent gasoline with ethanol. This pilot will commence next month.

Ruth Potopsingh

I had no kids when I started writing and two when they green-lit the pilot.

Doug Ellin

I can't recall in 20 years of investigating accidents any pilot being held criminally responsible for an accident. I believe he's very worried.

Jeff Edwards

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

It's about Billy Bishop's time in the First World War when he becomes a man and a fighter pilot.

James Barrett

It is intensive and it involves three therapists. This is a pilot. I anticipate it will be very successful and will be continued.

Mona Reilly

We are deeply mourning. Rick Husband was a great friend and an excellent pilot.

Valery Tokarev

If I were a betting man, I'd probably say no. Maybe the second or third episode, but not the pilot.

Tom Fowler

The pilot did a phenomenal job. He protected himself and the (passenger) and the people on the ground. He brought it down in an area away from development on the ground, and traffic.

Mark Meade

Faced with this management onslaught our only choice is self defense. We must defend the concept of the pilot working agreement itself. All legal means will be considered.

Lee Moak

He worked as hard as any other pilot, and his stick and throttle are above most others.

Clay Ogden

We are working very closely with Toronto. We are using the Canadian energy efficiency model ... and working on a pilot for London.

Nicky Gavron

The first thing was just watching planes. It always fascinated me to see planes floating in the air. Then at nine I decided I wanted to be a military fighter pilot.

Montana Stanley

I am an airman, a pilot. In 1945, I was wearing the uniform of the U.S. following the orders of our commander-in-chief.

Paul Tibbets

I'm really open to a lot of ideas, and you kind of have to be (that way) as a pilot with low hours.

Coleman Schelitzche

Yes, we have injected uranium hexafluoride gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than is needed for a pilot project.

Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

The Helsinki pilot reinforces our belief that mobile broadcast TV is a significant opportunity.

Richard Sharp

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Georgia Govsonny Perdue

Weather can change the mechanical nature of the airplane, can change anything, so you have to be ready for anything as a pilot.

Randall Harris

After take off the pilot reported a landing gear indication light and as a precaution decided to return.

Bryan Baldwin

Even as a Swiss pilot, I would be afraid to fly over a country which is in war, and I wouldn't have much pleasure to fly over a country where people are dying under the bombs.

Bertrand Piccard

If we can't get private investment, then I want to go to the City Council and ask them to buy it as a pilot program for the city.

Frank Melton

It's my recommendation that the pilot group vote for the strike ballot.

Lee Moak

We are enforcing the provisions of the contract we signed with our pilot employees when they joined the company.

Jon Austin

If someone calls for service (from Cortez), he or she will get the same treatment as if there was a pilot from out of these parts. A pilot can fly in from Albuquerque, Denver or Phoenix to pick up people (in Cortez or Durango) who may need special care.

Reed Suddaby

If you are a pilot going to an airport where you don?t traditionally fly and have a choice to deal with (fixed base operator) company A, B or C, you?re most likely choose the corporate brand you are used to, ... It?s like going on the Internet to find a hotel. You may not be sure what it looks like, but you know if you go to a Hilton, there are certain standards to which they are accountable.

Sandy Nelson

I am deeply disappointed that the company would enter into a transaction of this magnitude without reaching full agreement with the United pilot group on all issues.

Rick Dubinsky

The Basic Pilot program is a tool that allows honest businesses to remain honest.

Chris Bentley

Shortly after the plane took off, the pilot discovered that he may have a landing gear problem.

Donn Walker

Basic Pilot right now doesn't work.

Angelo Amador

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Scott Brockman

I think it generally falls below the pilots' expectations, but it raises the bar for the pilot group to build off of in the future.

Bill Olsen

I think the pilot is good, but it can be better, and it will be. I like to think of it like a football team. We had a good game, but there are things we all can improve on.

Michael Biehn

You get as many G's (forces of gravity) as a fighter jet pilot.

Robbie Lyon

Talk about motivation for a growing pilot, I'd have a grin on my face for hours after that. Because they seemed to just appear out of nowhere with such force and thunder, these fly-bys had lasting impressions on me.

Richard Webb

The new plane has a good market potential around the world. The new generation Hawk will give the pilot a new training experience.

Dave Potter

He said he was to pilot a fifth plane and then he declined to answer other questions. He said the government would have to agree to a deal first.

James Fitzgerald

I'm not saying it's going to take 11 months. The pilot program hasn't even started yet. Let it get started and we'll see.

Charles Sturcken

Once, he said he wanted to be a pilot and then he switched around and wanted to be a police officer.

Arna Selimic

After 37 years as a pilot, I see our commitment as a company to safety every single day.

Kevin Finan

We're creating a pilot program that's very permissive to try to combat suicides. At the same time, it gives the parents a way to glean information about their children's well-being while away at college.

Sen Deanna Hanna

What troubles us is that the automatic pilot was functioning up to a certain point, and then it was disengaged, possibly by human action.

Akrivos Tsolakis

The pilot project to use the funds [allocated for the purpose] will be possibly determined.

Alexei Kudrin

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.

Eric Wald

There's a reason it's called a Basic Pilot Program. It's basic, and it's a pilot.

Farrell Quinlan

Corporate air is my business. Danbury Airport's problems have been featured in every aviation publication for months. This airport has gotten terrible press ever since the drunken pilot. What this airport needs is money for gates and fences.

Andrew Brown

Then, depending on what work that team identifies, one or more groups will be charged with developing a fully detailed proposal, and perhaps some pilot courses, during the course of next year.

Dr. Jane Rose

I give the pilot four stars and a medal for getting that thing down on the runway in the first place. I consider that guy to be a masterful pilot; whether you practice on a simulator or not, that's just experience.

Paul Czysz

The DOT has provided the city with information on how to legally apply for those signs to be posted to promote the Pilot Pen.

Chris Cooper

He's a very good pilot. If he's saying it was a wave from another tour boat that caused it, that's what happened. He knows the lake. He's been on the lake for years. ... It was something beyond his control, believe me.

Al Dardis

I have to say I've never flown with a better pilot. He's just had it. Always smooth, always made the right decision.

David Mcrae

We were yelling at them to see if they would acknowledge us. The pilot said, 'We're OK,' so I knew there was more than one.

Mike Arnold

We know there was some sort of catastrophic event that caused her (the pilot) to declare an emergency.

John Goglia

We are saddened and surprised by this news. Ron was an exceptional friend and pilot who flew a great many successful missions. We still miss him dearly.

Andrew Kluger

If you already have departed the gate and you now get caught up in a two- to three-hour weather delay and you know you will go over your duty day, then you will have to turn around and go back, climb out of the cockpit, and the chances of getting a backup pilot will be very difficult. So in most cases, that flight will be canceled.

Carol Hallett

It's a second pilot! Holy S***!

Stephen Mcardle

The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them.

Gordon Anderson

He wanted to be a pilot for Aloha like his dad, who had put in years and years as a pilot for Aloha. And his twin brother Mike got in at Island Air, where he works now.

Carl Moore

Juan was a modern-day Ellis Island immigrant. He left his native country of Argentina to make a new life for himself and his family as a pilot in the United States.

Ron Gatewood

It is absurd that not everyone has [risk evaluation]. All we are asking is to print out some paper and have the pilot fill it out.

Debbie Hersman

If a pilot says a UFO hovered off the bow of his plane, it either happened or it didn't. It's either yes or no, and if we're not alone, our planet needs to know that so that we know what to do tomorrow.

Mike Bird

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

Mark Rebholz

We were all just shocked because at 49 years of age he has grown kids and he's a full time pilot.

Bart Conner

It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.

Brian Andrew

NBC has ordered the hourlong pilot.

Doug Liman

That means it was not mechanical. It was not pilot error. And It was nothing that they could determine, other than, I guess, an act of God.

Andrew Kluger

When you have more planes in the country, it makes a great deal of sense to have a local pilot-training center.

Kapil Kaul

You should have met me on the pilot episode - I was so sweet. Now I'm just one of the guys.

Maggie Grace

Radar does guide them down to a certain point ... and then the pilot just merely takes over on the instrument landing system.

Mike Fergus

You want to hold that nose up as long as humanly possible and drop it as slowly as possible. You drop the nose and you pray the nose gear is going to hold up, which it did. Clearly this pilot did an extraordinary job.

Peter Goelz

More and more people are using this tool, especially now that the Palm Pilot has taken off in the business world. It is a lot easier to make good choices when you have the info at your fingertips.

Marlinda Martinez

A lot of customers don't have a 360-degree view of their environment so they will use Fabric to help them begin pilot projects and do the groundwork to later scale them to enterprise deployments.

Lance Hill

Rachel had three lines in the pilot.

Josh Schwartz

A student pilot certificate - to fly a plane - you must be at least 16 years of age. This boy was too young to be flying.

Allen Kenitzer

No pilot, even with a gun to his head, is going to fly into the world towers.

Gene Poteat

As my co-pilot used to say, now that it's over, it was a good experience.

Bill Carlson

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Jessica Nevarez

We continue to face logistical issues in getting fuel to Pilot Travel Centers and some short-term interruptions and intermittent outages.

Alan Wright

If there's anything about the aircraft that the pilot is not entirely happy with, they'll radio ahead and ask the fire department to stand by.

Bob Parker

We are also looking at capping pilot salaries, which have been continuously moving northward.

Jeh Wadia

There's nothing out there that's exactly right for us to pilot. We would like to test something this year.

Simon Langford

We expect to see some pilot tests during the games, but no commercial service.

Lothar Pauly

The pilot at that point decided to get it checked out.

Joe Hodas

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

Paul Jackson

He loves to fly and, from what I understand, flies very well and is a very competent pilot.

Carlos Fernandez

This pilot group is unified and they will support whatever actions their leadership determines are necessary.

Don Burnham

It's still a pilot program not integrated with the passenger vehicle program.

Adele Fasano

The inclusion of pilot controls has had the biggest impact on the industry in the last 24 months. Operator comfort becomes increasingly more important as businesses try to keep their best operators. With pilot controls, operators are less fatigued at the end of the day, and more productive as a result.

Bob Tyler

We spent about $140,000 for the rollout at the pilot site, which included everything from beginning to end - software, licensing and consulting.

Jason Whiteside

He's a pilot with 20 years of experience. He felt that he just came in a little hot, a little fast and tried to put the brakes on and the plane flipped. Luckily the damage was to the plane and not to him. He just had minor injuries, was very, very lucky.

Tom Stephenson

We're doing a pilot right now for UPN, which hopefully we're going to be picked up on. It's based on us in a sense. It's kind of the like the odd couple - [Lance] is the clean-cut Mississippi boy and I'm the dirty New York kind of kid.

Joey Fatone

These wonderful entertainers are coming together with a common bond — honoring Bessie Coleman, the world's first licensed African-American woman pilot.

Idotha Bootsie Neal

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning

We've been putting up some pretty good points before tonight. I don't know if the fatigue set in or what. Our kids kind of had it on auto-pilot.

Lonnie Roberts

The pilot did not set out to get a business benefit, but the overriding fact is that we will have to fall in line with suppliers.

Mark Butler

Because of that we're able to bring PILOT monies to Lewis County to the tune of about $7.8 million.

Scott Alexander

The pilot was able to make his way - unassisted - to the beach where medical treatment was administered. He was taken to Auckland Hospital by ambulance.

Jim Wilson

We're scrappy. York, we hope, is a guinea pig for a pilot program.

Matt Jackson

The agreement will initially cover the market in Thailand and then expand to include pilot markets in Australia and New Zealand.

Fong Piau

In an emergency, the flight controllers will do everything they can to accommodate the pilot.

Roland Herwig

There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neither is this a terribly unusual meeting.

Dennis Wilder

They departed from Lincoln, and shortly after departure, a door unlock light illuminated in the cockpit, ... The pilot made a precautionary landing at Sacramento Executive Airport. They landed and checked the door and it checked out OK.

Bruce Nelson

This is no new allegation, this is no new case, and this is no new fact. The fact is the same today as it was in 1997. And God is my pilot, and God is in my foxhole.

Bill Burkett

You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a sense of confidence about how things will turn out. He has great charm and great wit and is incredibly intelligent and meticulous. Nothing escapes him.

Dougray Scott

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

George Schweitzer

He was doing what he loved to do. His passion was flying and he was getting to live that dream; his goal was to be a pilot for a long time and he was living the dream.

Phillip Wilson

Juan loved to fly and Juan loved to teach flying. I have not (known) anyone who has flown with Juan who did not say he was a good pilot.

Ron Gatewood

I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I fell in love with it and have been flying off and on ever since.

Eric Hoffman

We interviewed the pilot and he was unaware that he had wandered into restricted airspace.

Eric Zahren

The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.

Eliot Brenner

It was my second time on a plane. The co-pilot came out and helped me.

Eleanor Vosberg

It's important for us to start doing pilot project studies to deal with some of these issues and look for the most cost-effective method.

Edward Martinko

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is in the process of issuing two fines to the pilot.

Zachary Mann

I was supposed to pilot a plane to hit the White House.

Zacharias Moussaoui