Alex Stone > Quotes

“A good landing is one that you can walk away from, and a great landing is one were the airplane can be reused again afterwards.”
― Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“Training aircraft are treated worse than rental cars; never, ever, buy a used one.”
― Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“As a flight instructor, I found that most student pilots have no business being in or anywhere near an airplane. It’s just not for everyone, and the number who actually complete flight school is a very small percentage of those who start. Not all of my students were bad, though. There were a few good ones that showed up on time, read the materials they were assigned, and were teachable.”
― Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“This wasn’t the first time today that my student had tried to kill me,”
― Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“Instructors only get paid for flight time, which meant from the time the brakes were released and the plane started moving with the intention of flight till the plane was parked, we got paid. Any time spent on the ground in between flights was off the clock. If we had an open flight slot during the day, we made nothing but still were not allowed to leave the flight school. I don’t know of any other job where an employer could get away with having rules like this. No one else in any other profession would put up with it. Most days I worked for ten hours but was usually only paid for five or six. Even on the best days, pay maxed out at eight hours because that’s the legal daily limit on flight time. And to actually get eight hours of flight time, and eight hours of pay, usually meant working a twelve- to fourteen-hour day.”
― Alex Stone, CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy

“That's what love was. That safety. That sense of completeness. Of finally being whole”
― Alex Stone, The Missing Boyfriend