Flying on a Plane

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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    mca47 wrote:
    I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock: ;):D

    ummm...what kind of stories? :?
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,827
    smarchee wrote:
    my flying regimen:
    1 - get on plane
    2 - open book
    3 - wait to hear preparing to land
    4 - close book
    5 - exit plane

    You mean # 3 should be order beer or drink ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock: ;):D

    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.


    it was an uneventful flight.
    81 is now off the air

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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    The 81 wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mca47 wrote:
    I could tell you some stories of some flights I've been on over the last few years! :shock: ;):D

    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.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    however, the last time i flew from straight across the country from the west coast, it was out of sacremento....

    first 45 minuts were find, than we hit heavy turbulance...that plane was buckin like a newly roped bronco.

    good times.
    81 is now off the air

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  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    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:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... 743697.ece


    can you imagine Ed Vedder flying the plane?
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,819
    Smoke a big ass fatty before you get groped by TSA , you'll be flying so high , you wont care about anything.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    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:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... 743697.ece


    can you imagine Ed Vedder flying the plane?

    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!' :lol:
    mickeyrat wrote:
    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.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • Tenzing N.
    Tenzing N. Posts: 466
    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.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    ed flying the plane

    http://youtu.be/hjHx66ldGC0?t=28s

    :P
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    nothing to worry about

    and if you are....take a xanax or have a drink
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    i did have to make an emergency landing 15 years ago

    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 :?
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    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. :lol: 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.
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    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...

    8-)
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  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    Flying is much more safer then driving

    Why so nervous ?
    Statistics will tell you anything.

    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.
    #FHP
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    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"
  • Valium makes me love flying.
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  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Flying is much more safer then driving

    Why so nervous ?
    Statistics will tell you anything.

    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.

    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
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    Valium makes me love flying.

    magic brownies. Ohhhh what a calming yet fun ride it is... :D
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