People like to freak out at the slightest amount of turbulence. Again, safer than driving. And if anything, I like to drink a ton on a flight anyway so that always keeps me loose.
My girlfriend will jump and clutch my arm at the slightest shift in stability on a plane. I have to constantly assure her that things are okay and that it is safer than driving. I usually end up buying her some cocktailsbefore we depart too... partially to get her to relax and partially because I'm still hoping to get into the Mile High Club *fingers crossed* :P
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
my flying regimen:
1 - get on plane
2 - open book
3 - wait to hear preparing to land
4 - close book
5 - exit plane
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
my flying regimen:
1 - get on plane
2 - open book
3 - wait to hear preparing to land
4 - close book
5 - exit plane
#3 for me would be to put on ipod then open book...but yeah, that's what i do too
I feel like an idiot because I can't read and listen to music at the same time... :?
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
really? i almost can't read without music...it keeps me focused
I'm not bad at multi-tasking, but for some reason I just can't focus on both of those things at once. Probably because I generally like to give each of them a lot of my attention individually. I'm pretty bad at reading a page and not knowing what I just read though. :oops:
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
I can listen to music and read....but the book has to be really really good for me to keep reading. One time, I flew to Houston and had my cassette walkman...no radio, and the brand new batteries ran out of juice after the first 2 hours.....prob cuz I had to turn the volume all the way up to drown out the jet noise.
They have dual headphones right? We have one ipod and Mr. RK will be next to me....wonder if he'll play scrabble with me.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock:
ummm...what kind of stories? :?
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock:
ummm...what kind of stories? :?
this one time i was flying into Seattle...we came in from the north, headed south, and flipped back around....landed, parked, got off the plane, walked thru a tunnel, bought a pen at the gift shop, walked to our next terminal, and boarded our next flight to anchorage.
I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock:
ummm...what kind of stories? :?
this one time i was flying into Seattle...we came in from the north, headed south, and flipped back around....landed, parked, got off the plane, walked thru a tunnel, bought a pen for $20 at the gift shop, walked to our next terminal, and boarded our next flight to anchorage.
it was an uneventful flight.
fixed...
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden, is a certified commercial pilot, and has been known to fly their tour plane. I am too lazy to insert picture, but here is a link to one:
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden, is a certified commercial pilot, and has been known to fly their tour plane. I am too lazy to insert picture, but here is a link to one:
Smoke a big ass fatty before you get groped by TSA , you'll be flying so high , you wont care about anything.
...and then I'll get strip searched because I reek of skunky perfume...what was that stuff Ryez was talking about? Odorize? Hell....I always have Febreeze in my car.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I fly private charter jets and have always dreamed of the day that I would have even one of the bandmembers on board. Alas, its never happened. I would let Ed fly. I think he'd love it. I let a certain basketball player fly once and he was great at it.
Not a great flyer. Over the years I have learnt to use breathing techniques, herbal remedies and distraction to get me through it.
Nowadays I really don't like the take off or landing but I try and imagine that I'm on a bus for the rest of the time - so I don't look out the window much. If you're really concerned go see your doctor and he can give you something light to take the edge off, I've done that before and it was ok.
I loved flying when I was a kid. Took me to new places, travelling, meeting people whatever, it was new so I liked it.
Now...I've been in a career field that's forced me to travel quite a bit. Plus I've grown...a lot.
Fuck that noise. Folding myself in half just to be able to fit. Such an annoying task now. I just recently took a new job though! Why? Mostly local work. What happens first week I'm hired? Had to fly to Seattle for three days. Yeah...sometimes being awkwardly tall sucks the shitbrick. Luckily, that's an easy flight, since I was doing it just about weekly for 4 months a couple years ago.
Coco, I know you know where I roll with this. *shudders*
See, now I'm anxious just reading the title of this thread. I absolutely hate to fly. I'm jittery just thinking about how it feels to walk down the whatchamacallit and step onto the plane. And then when they close the doors, I'm figuring, "Well, it's all over now except the crashing and burning." I am hypervigilant, listening to every single sound _ as mentioned above, the engines revving, the landing gear, all of it.
Ugh. But for PJ20, it makes so much more sense to fly. It's something like 1'45" flight, versus 18 hour drive, which means two additional vacation days.
I know, I KNOW that I should fly, but I am such a big fat chicken about it... :(
And... it would be so nice to have the UnlostDogsmobile out there...
I always found consolation by looking at the pilots/stewardesses. To them its "just another day on the job". That thought always seemed to cancel out my thoughts of "its just another day crashing and burning on an airplane"
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My girlfriend will jump and clutch my arm at the slightest shift in stability on a plane. I have to constantly assure her that things are okay and that it is safer than driving. I usually end up buying her some cocktailsbefore we depart too... partially to get her to relax and partially because I'm still hoping to get into the Mile High Club *fingers crossed* :P
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
1 - get on plane
2 - open book
3 - wait to hear preparing to land
4 - close book
5 - exit plane
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
#3 for me would be to put on ipod then open book...but yeah, that's what i do too
I feel like an idiot because I can't read and listen to music at the same time... :?
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
really? i almost can't read without music...it keeps me focused
if wifi access wasn't so damn expensive, i would surf the net.
i ussally just sit by the window and watch the world go by, while trying to figure out exactly where i am on the map.
i'm going to test my phones gps system to see if it works in flight. it should...right?
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
They have dual headphones right? We have one ipod and Mr. RK will be next to me....wonder if he'll play scrabble with me.
- Christopher McCandless
I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock:
That said, I do love to fly. In fact, I would LOVE to learn how to fly some day. Oh man, that would be amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-9G8z4 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8KjPNj2 ... re=related
ummm...what kind of stories? :?
- Christopher McCandless
You mean # 3 should be order beer or drink ..
this one time i was flying into Seattle...we came in from the north, headed south, and flipped back around....landed, parked, got off the plane, walked thru a tunnel, bought a pen at the gift shop, walked to our next terminal, and boarded our next flight to anchorage.
it was an uneventful flight.
fixed...
- Christopher McCandless
first 45 minuts were find, than we hit heavy turbulance...that plane was buckin like a newly roped bronco.
good times.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... 743697.ece
can you imagine Ed Vedder flying the plane?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Ed now=yes
Young 'climbing the scaffolding and diving into the crowd' Ed=no
and I still probably wouldn't be able to decipher his mumbling over the intercom...
"Helloyes,thisisyour cap'n,Ed...Ijustwannascream HELLO!'
...and then I'll get strip searched because I reek of skunky perfume...what was that stuff Ryez was talking about? Odorize? Hell....I always have Febreeze in my car.
- Christopher McCandless
http://youtu.be/hjHx66ldGC0?t=28s
:P
and if you are....take a xanax or have a drink
left ft. lauderdale..15 min in a generator blew...sirens in the cabin ..captain comes on and tells us we are heading back for an emergency landing
did get nervous obviously but when we landed the captain said we had nothing to worry about :?
Nowadays I really don't like the take off or landing but I try and imagine that I'm on a bus for the rest of the time - so I don't look out the window much. If you're really concerned go see your doctor and he can give you something light to take the edge off, I've done that before and it was ok.
Now...I've been in a career field that's forced me to travel quite a bit. Plus I've grown...a lot.
Fuck that noise. Folding myself in half just to be able to fit. Such an annoying task now. I just recently took a new job though! Why? Mostly local work. What happens first week I'm hired? Had to fly to Seattle for three days.
See, now I'm anxious just reading the title of this thread. I absolutely hate to fly. I'm jittery just thinking about how it feels to walk down the whatchamacallit and step onto the plane. And then when they close the doors, I'm figuring, "Well, it's all over now except the crashing and burning." I am hypervigilant, listening to every single sound _ as mentioned above, the engines revving, the landing gear, all of it.
Ugh. But for PJ20, it makes so much more sense to fly. It's something like 1'45" flight, versus 18 hour drive, which means two additional vacation days.
I know, I KNOW that I should fly, but I am such a big fat chicken about it... :(
And... it would be so nice to have the UnlostDogsmobile out there...
Not too many people have survived a plane crash.
I'm with The 81, love flying but all the BS that goes with it esp. since 9/11.
Key Arena - Nov 05, 2000
Gorge Amphitheater - Sep 01, 2005, Jul 22,23, 2006
Key Arena - Sept 21,22, 2009
Alpine Valley - Sept 3, 4 2011
There's a flight in the air of every minute of everyday
How many times do you see a plane crash ?
I see a car accident just about everyday..no maybe not fatal but it's still more dangerous to drive
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
magic brownies. Ohhhh what a calming yet fun ride it is...