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After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.
Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
For years, I tried to resist the hero label.
Having a plan enabled us to keep our hope alive. Perhaps in a similar fashion, people who are in their own personal crises - a pink slip, a foreclosure - can be reminded that no matter how dire the circumstance, or how little time you have to deal with it, further action is always possible. There's always a way out of even the tightest spot.
I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.
I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.
I try to work out, time permitting, wherever I am.
I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.
In the bad old days, captains were not good leaders. They didn't build teams; they were arrogant and autocratic.
It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
It's an important job to be the public face of something that gives people hope, and I take that seriously.
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
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