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Post by kris on Mar 29, 2019 20:37:15 GMT
I reckon I've racked up over 1,000 flights in my short life. So climate change is all your fault. |
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Post by ianali on Mar 29, 2019 20:44:46 GMT
The plane to Dallas Was an American Airlines 737 I think and we had first class so it was comfortable enough. Its just the high speed which discombobulates me. 200mph on a train is okay but much faster and I come over a little queer. Really? 🙁 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 20:46:09 GMT
In the old fashioned sense.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 20:53:52 GMT
I enjoy flying,take off is the best bit ! Yup, incredible how all that metal, fuel, bone and flesh gets in the sky - what's even more incredible is more often than not it gets back on the ground with little to no incident. The landing is definitely where the pilot and co pilot earn their corn 🙈 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 20:54:52 GMT
Landing a plane is a controlled crash.
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Post by NigelMoore on Mar 29, 2019 21:06:52 GMT
"and you can trust in the power of music
you can trust in the power of prayer
but it’s only the white of your knuckles
that’s keeping this plane in the air."
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Post by JohnV on Mar 29, 2019 21:10:17 GMT
I don't just like that post ..... I like it very much  |
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Post by Trina on Mar 29, 2019 21:49:16 GMT
I enjoy flying,take off is the best bit ! Yup, incredible how all that metal, fuel, bone and flesh gets in the sky - what's even more incredible is more often than not it gets back on the ground with little to no incident. The landing is definitely where the pilot and co pilot earn their corn 🙈 It's all that power & thrust I like !😉 |
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Post by phil70 on Mar 29, 2019 21:52:14 GMT
I do enjoy flying however I've had one or two moments that stick in my mind.
I went to Gatwick to pick up Chris who was returning from Cannes. Couldn't see her flight on the display despite the fact it should have landed. I went to the info desk and asked. The girl on the desk said " Oh let me see, oh yes something has happened to that flight" then realising what she said went into back peddling mode. It transpired that somebody had simply missed out inputting the landing time.
Phil
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Post by phil70 on Mar 29, 2019 21:53:59 GMT
Yup, incredible how all that metal, fuel, bone and flesh gets in the sky - what's even more incredible is more often than not it gets back on the ground with little to no incident. The landing is definitely where the pilot and co pilot earn their corn 🙈 It's all that power & thrust I like !😉 There you go, my glasses just steamed up....again. Phil |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 22:44:42 GMT
Couple of embedded traumas for me with planes. My mothers oldest brother died before she was born in a test plane in WW2. Bristol Beaufighter. And my dad's father was barbecued in a light aircraft (Cessna) accident in Ohio the early 70s when the plane clipped a tree on the landing approach. He was about 60.
Shit happens.
These things happened before I was born but trauma remains in the family, sadly.
I've never been interested in having accidents myself but it is worth noting that commercial jet travel is actually very safe and economical by passenger miles.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 30, 2019 0:01:23 GMT
Yup, incredible how all that metal, fuel, bone and flesh gets in the sky - what's even more incredible is more often than not it gets back on the ground with little to no incident. The landing is definitely where the pilot and co pilot earn their corn 🙈 It's all that power & thrust I like !😉 I've always said the same, its when its stationary and the the engines build right up and you start shifting down the runway. Love it. |
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Post by bargemast on Mar 30, 2019 6:53:05 GMT
Flying is not for me anymore, I flew 5 times to the US and back in the past, but since the terrible accident of flight MH-17 that was shot down above the Ukraïne july 17th 2014 when 298 people lost their lives, including 3 members of my family, I don't fly anymore (if I can avoid it).
It may have been proved that flying is very safe, but if it go's wrong, there's nothing you can do about it, I know that there are many more accidents on the roads, and that there's more chance to get involved in one of these, but that wouldn't take the lives of 298 people in one go, and there's a better chance that you'll get rescued.
To say it in short : "Living is a dangerous occupation, and nobody can finish it alive"
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 30, 2019 7:20:11 GMT
I enjoy flying,take off is the best bit ! It's not bad but a bit brief; but you can appreciate the power of those engines - just think of yourself walking uphill with a heavy rucksack in the Lake District - and that's just 20 kilogrammes at most (plus your own 60 kilogrammes). Those engines get all those overweight fatties and their luggage and the drinks trolleys up to 33,000 feet effortlessly. I think landing is better because you have much more time to look at the landscape and try to spot places you know, and follow roads and railways, and there's the moment when you are waiting to feel the wheels touch the runway - smooth or big bang and a bounce? |
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 30, 2019 7:20:52 GMT
I enjoy flying, cake is the best bit ! |
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