I fly RC aircraft as a hobby and we have a local club with airfield. The club has a relatively new member. He's about my age (mid 30's) and he hasn't been flying very long.

Today there were several of us at the club flying and he was practicing landings. He had his father there with him to record the landings with his phone. He was struggling a little bit, but it wasn't like he was destroying his plane.

He had one particularly bad landing and his dad said, "Well, it wasn't textbook."

I wanted to encourage him as we all were beginners at some point. From further down the field I replied with the popular aeronautical adage, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."

The pilot is wheelchair bound.

As soon as the words slipped from my lips I wanted them back! It's just such a common saying, it just came out and I immediately felt like a horrible human being.

Neither him or his father said anything about it. We continued flying and I kept my mouth shut for the rest of the morning.

TL;DR I told a wheelchair bound R/C pilot that, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."