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A humorous, fast paced and thought-provoking seminar recorded live before 300 pilots.
Defensive Flying is aviation humorist Rod Machado's guide to staying alive in an airplane. In this entertaining and educational video presentation, Rod discusses how to learn from other people's mistakes.
Learn some of the defensive secrets that have kept pilots from falling victim to aviation’s natural predators and enemies. Tom Wolfe’s book, The Right Stuff, portrayed individuals having superior survival skill. The “Right Stuff,” as it is known, is made up of a strategic method of thinking. These thought patterns are presented to help pilots make each flight with confidence and safety. As the Chinese General Sun Tzu once said, “Invincibility lies in the defense.” Statistics reflect how many aviation accidents could be avoided if pilots would think defensively.
Learn about acknowledging your own limitations, about little known psychological predators that should concern every pilot, thinking ahead in the airplane, as well as never underestimating aerial enemies. Listen to an actual, hair-raising, in-flight emergency as two professional pilots exercise some very important defensive flying skills. This presentation contains many new stories and humor.
Rod Machado has the unique gift of being able to relate to an audience in a way few others can. He combines humor and an instinctive ability to communicate effectively with an unmatched professional skill as a pilot and instructor. The mix makes for a truly entertaining and important learning experience for pilots. The hour and forty-five minute program strives to change the way pilots think about flying and flight safety.
GENERAL AVIATION NEWS & FLYER
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I hit the ground at 200 miles per hour, scattering perfectly good airplane parts 1,000 feet, all because I was not flying defensively. Listen to Rod! He knows what he’s talking about and he makes learning fun.”
Danny Mortensen,
Air Race Pilot,
First Place 1990 Reno Air Races, President Airline Ground Schools
Machado's humor serves as the glue that keeps his message together. Sources for most of his guiles are real-world incidents, the essence of hangar-flying tales told with style by Machado. He makes us smile while we learn, a rare ability.
Bill Wagstaff,
Aviation International News
Our club speaker was a no show. The guys were very vocal when they saw me setting up a video, “We aren’t going to watch some video.” We finally struck a deal, if even one person complained after it started, we would turn it off. An hour and forty-five minutes later, not one peep. They loved the Defensive Flying video!
Florida Flying Club
As the flight safety pilot my job is to instill aviation safety notions into students heads early on. I loaned a group of students an aviation humor video of yours and another group is sitting here quoting lines out of video. I think it is wonderful that the students are taking such an interest in both the aviation humor and the defensive flying video. I thought you would like to know that. Thank you, Rod, for doing such a wonderful job of conveying aviation safety.
M. Booth
Having 15 ratings and over 14,500 hours of flying without a bent airplane, obviously I’ve learned to fly defensively. Machado delivers to you, with wit and humor, thousands of hours of experience in less than two hours of time.
Capt. Dave Gwinn,
Ret. Airline Pilot, Radar Expert, Aviation Journalist
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