Instrument Flying: Technique in Weather Page: II
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Foreword
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T. O. No. 30-100D-1
In this manual our hero, "fool for luck" and principal character, is
Scratchy. Scratchy is an average pilot. He has average skill and his reflexes
are about the same as yours. He got his name during his cadet days because
he could not work a problem without scratching his head. When he began to
think, he began to scratch.
Thinking is a useful exercise, and frequently Scratchy scratched out the
right answers. By the time he became a pilot it seemed to him that he had
scratched out every possible answer. He could fly from the seat of his pants,
so when he came up against the problems of efficiency and safety in flying
weather, he hardly scratched at all. This was his mistake. It was a mistake
in 12 parts, each the result of insufficient preliminary scratching.
What they added up to was a lesson he won't soon forget. It is a lesson
every pilot has to learn, somehow. Like Scratchy, he may be able to barge
ahead, learn it the hard way, and do his thinking afterward. Scratchy no longer
recommends this course. He says you ought to sit down with this manual and
let it help you to do your thinking first.
If you don't do your thinking about flying weather first, you'd better be sure
you were born lucky.I
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Army Air Forces. Instrument Flying: Technique in Weather, book, January 1, 1944; Ashland, Ohio. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth873973/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting National WASP WWII Museum.