Brian Germain > Quotes

“Making the right decision, without the impedance of emotion seems to be one of the big keys to survival.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“Pretending that danger does not exist is the best way to ensure our demise.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“Skydiving isn’t really about jumping out of airplanes. Flying through the sky is great fun, but it is what the act represents that is important. It is about Freedom.”
― Brian Germain, Transcending Fear: The Doorway to Freedom

“I have spent my entire adult life studying safety practices in adventure sports, and have concluded that the primary problem is that we are in fact the generation least prepared to engage high-risk situations. We have grown up in a society that lives far from “the edge”. We watch life as spectators, more than as participants. We then go out and buy the gear that some website says is necessary, and we are surprised when we get hurt. We are a generation of naïve dreamers, who awaken occasionally to dare our fate in the real world.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“You can be crazy without being stupid.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“A very physically strong pilot under a radical parachute is capable of actually getting directly above the canopy in flight. Errors in judgment and or timing in such maneuvers can result in the pilot falling into the canopy. Speaking from personal experience, you don’t want to experience this…”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“Thrust, in aviation terms, usually is a vector of energy applied in the opposite direction of the aircraft’s motion.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“Burn brightly, But don’t burn out.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator

“It is a matter of risk versus payoff. An adventurous person is said to be one who is less afraid of dying than of not living.”
― Brian Germain, Parachute And Its Pilot,The: The Ultimate Guide For The Ram-Air Aviator