who's afraid of flying??

RE: I always found

Im going to try that in 2 weeks time see if your telling the truth

 

RE: I always found

Probably best way .

The old remedy of sucking on spice doesn't stop them popping either!

Don't believe that one if you get told...

 

RE: I always found

It worked for me going to Leicester away a few seasons ago.

 

RE: I always found

if ya get let on that is!!!
we fly at 6am so i dare say i'll only want 5 or 6 pints before

 

RE: I always found

Aslong as you don't attract any attention you'll be fine

I find it quite hard to be quiet when I'm sober, nevermind drunk!

 

i remember the 1st time i went to the lav on a plane

nothing prepared me for the noise when you flush it, jesus! i shat nearly myself,

 

RE: I always found

Fly at 7am minibus picking up at 4am beer allowed en route plus afew Thursday night in town before hand

 

plane in Russia a few years back.....

...landed on top of four snowploughs that everyone forgot were still on the runway during a snow storm. Ooops.

 

ME

Terrifies me. The Doctor prescribes me Diazepam to take but they don't seem to do much as my fear is so great. I hate everything about it. 4 hours is the most i can cope with, so that limits where i can go which really pisses me off.

The problem seems to be getting worse as i get older

 

I can't imagine ever loving it

The whole experience from lugging all your luggage to the airport, to spending hours in an airport, sometimes at unearthly times, to joining the mad scramble for a decent seat then getting a seat and realising my knees are jammed into the seat infront (and they will be for the next four hours). Having a window seat but then finding the old woman beside me has fallen asleep so I'm trapped. Getting severe pain from the ear popping (or lack of). In the small work plane the crap air up there knocks me out and I end up waking up in a pool of my own sweat because it's so damn hot up there. Then there's the customs to get through where I allus seem to attract a search. Even in the portacabin that is the Filton BAE flight operations you had to go through the security nonsense and I had a can of deodorant confiscated. There was only three of us on the plane. How anyone can enjoy all this nonsense is beyond me.

 

I like landing but taking off I find a little rough

 

Once flying back from Malaga

in 1989, half way down the runway when there was a bang and a huge flame shot out the back of an engine, luckily the pilot was able to abort the takeoff. We eventually got back to East Midlands 36 hours late.

 

No problem

Present day aircraft are far safer than their predecessors, and the pilot's generally better trained, and have less complexities to deal with due to computerisation. In the early 60s, one had to fly in certain countries ancient petrol burning, Daktas and DC6s and the like. On a flight from Tehran to Abadan, I was informed by my neighbour an American, that the pilot was a German nicknamed 'stuka pilot' for the way he decended. Sure enough, on coming into land at Abadan Airport, the nose dropped and the aircraft plunged towards earth, engines feathered on full flap. At the last minute he pulled back the yoke, but not in sufficient time to present the nose wheel hitting the runway first. This callapsed and the aircraft came to a halt with the ends of the props hitting the tarmac. The Iranian stewardesses wouldn't have been better. The emergency doors, were opened in seconds of the aircraft coming to rest, we (about 26 of us) deplaned down the shutes, and the only casualty was one of the stewardesses, who unfortunately broke her ankle.

 

RE: I can't imagine ever loving it

Same as me there Budmustang. Hate the whole experience, airports are horrible places full of idiots. The only amusing part is sitting dow, and people watching, now airports are the finest place to do this by far.

 

I was once coming into land

When the announcement came over the tannoy.....

"When we land this is the first landing of the new airbus A whatever it is.

The fire and emergency crews have never seen one of these, so don't be suprised if you see them chasing us down the runway.

They just want to have a look."



Yeah ...... that's exactly why they we chasing us down the runway.....to have a look ........a look that the landing gear had come down cos the landing gear sensor on this brand new plane wasn't working properly!

 

^ you poor sod. nt