Flying.

[martint235]

Love flying and just spend the entire time looking out of the window. Can't help myself. I was late 20s before I flew for the first time and a friend gave me a book of the worst air disasters which I read from cover to cover before getting on the plane. I figure that if something goes badly wrong at 30,000 feet there's sod all I can do to affect the outcome.

Hate airports. The ability to buy entrance to the premium lounges lately has been a huge bonus. OH goes off shopping, I just sit and chill.

 

[howard2107]

How do you feel about flying? Personally, I hate it. Every time we fly somewhere, I always feel anxious beforehand. Once on board, all sorts of thoughts enter my head so next time, I will download lots of things on my tablet and watch it to take my mind off it. I know flying is regarded has the safest way to travel but when something goes wrong, every body is dead! I much prefer driving but it isn't always practical.

It has to go seriously wrong very very quickly for an airliner to come down, so quickly you will never know it has happened, unless it is a deliberate action by the crew. Even very serious problems don't pose much of a safety risk to either aircraft or passengers due to the built in redundancy of the aircraft systems, they will always land if they have to, but even emergency landings for technical reasons are few and far between, they will always try to get to wherever the airline has a maintenance base. About 90% of emergency landings are either medical or disruptive passengers.

You are at the most danger when flying if you get caught up in the stampede to get on or off the thing first!

 

[summerdays]

My first flight was when I was weeks old and recently Dad gave me the booking recite that he'd found going through papers

The first price was for him flying to London, and the second figure for Mother and baby a few weeks later.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

My claim to fame is actually being born on an aircraft...

Be a full house if you were conceived on one too and then were to die in an air crash.

 

[Glow worm]

I'd rather walk than get on a plane these days. The flying bit is OK, it's just that airports are such toilets. The wretched 3am starts dont help either. I'm shuddering just thinking about the whole nightmare.

 

[slowmotion]

I could never understand why some young ladies get dolled up to the nines before going to the airport. They must feel cripplingly uncomfortable teetering about in impossibly high heels and spray on jeans. I think that you swell up on an aircraft because of the lower atmospheric pressure. I'm surprised that the circulation to their lower limbs isn't completely strangulated.

 

[Cubist]

My wife and kids all get nervous about flying, especially Mrs Cube. It doesn't stop us going though, but my take on it is this:

If you get stressed before and during the flight and it doesn't crash, then you have wasted hours of emotional discomfort for no reason whatsoever, which is a waste.
If you get stressed before and during the flight, and it does crash, then you won't have enjoyed your last moments in life, which is also a waste.
If it does crash, there's nothing you can do about it, no matter how upset or nervous you are.
Getting stressed helps no one... think about it: you never, ever hear the captain say "Thanks to all those who gave nervous gasps during that bumpy landing- without them we wouldn't have managed to get the plane down safely."

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My claim to fame is actually being born on an aircraft...

Be a full house if you were conceived on one too and then were to die in an air crash.

Is your real name where you were conceived??

Mr The Toilet On The 4.30 BEA Trident To Malaga

Perhaps??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I could never understand why some young ladies get dolled up to the nines before going to the airport.

In the old days, flying was such an occasion that people did just that. More so, some people mourn the passing of that era!

They must feel cripplingly uncomfortable teetering about in impossibly high heels and spray on jeans. I think that you swell up on an aircraft because of the lower atmospheric pressure. I'm surprised that the circulation to their lower limbs isn't completely strangulated.

Do you think that if they get jabbed by a pin or something that they will go flying around the cabin making a high pitched wailing noise, before landing on the floor all deflated with a 'raspberry' sound?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My mother always wanted a boy called ******* and I was born prematurely on the feast day of Saint *******.

...... Crispian?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Nope. Although I quite like that name. I shagged a Crispian once...

Did he have a nice longbow for you to shoot??



Sorry, slightly obscure reference to a certain Mr Basil Fawlty answering as a stab in the dark

'Agincourt?'

When asked what day it was, me doing the same but only with your name. The St Crispian bit is one of the few bits of English history I actually l know!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Annnnyway, moving on..... To all of you who don't like flying, this will cheer you up (cough!).

Just like a lot of hobbies and interests, various companies cater for the enthusiast market, and as such, run 'tours' of places like North Korea on old and rare ex Soviet designed airliners!!

Just think: If you were to crash over NK and survive, you would probably be hunted down and made into soup for the fat man and his family (what's left of them)!!

 

[Licramite]

I love flying , it just makes my arms tired.

 

[ianrauk]

I would be happy to never have to take a flight again. Flying is the ultimate in boredom for me.
I have flown so many times for work over the past gawd knows how many years, it's just a means to an end.

 

[screenman]

I could never understand why some young ladies get dolled up to the nines before going to the airport. They must feel cripplingly uncomfortable teetering about in impossibly high heels and spray on jeans. I think that you swell up on an aircraft because of the lower atmospheric pressure. I'm surprised that the circulation to their lower limbs isn't completely strangulated.

It is their G force suit.