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I'm flying to Alaska late tonight. Anyone else hate flying in planes?
 
JFizzleRaider said:
I'm flying to Alaska late tonight. Anyone else hate flying in planes?
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Where you going to in Alaska? My sister and her family live in Juneau now, moved there in June.

I don't hate flying, but I don't enjoy it either. I get bored and I can't go anywhere. Then if I sleep, I always wake up sore.
 
I tend to fly several times a year and I hate it. No phobias or anything, it is just an uncomfortable experience for me. Rather be driving or on the train.
 
I hate rough turbulance. I'd imagine Alaska having it....dunno why.

I just try to sleep through the whole flight. Can't do work on a laptop, i read too quickly then get bored and movies suck.
 
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^ Ha, I saw that today, too. Is he sitting on the arm rest?
 
armrest is up his ass!

thing I hate most is the TSA and all the slow fucking people trying to go through metal detectors with jewelry on and shit.
 
I had an episode of severe turbulence over the North Atlantic one night. The entire time I kept thinking to myself, "They overengineer these things and they can't just break apart. It's rough, but I'm fine."

A few months later, that Air France plane was ripped apart by turbulence.

Next time, I don't think I'll be able to talk myself into being calm with that line of thinking.
 
That shit scares me the most. light turbulance is fine but heavy really really really sucks.
 
DynastYWarrioR6 said:
Where you going to in Alaska? My sister and her family live in Juneau now, moved there in June.

I don't hate flying, but I don't enjoy it either. I get bored and I can't go anywhere. Then if I sleep, I always wake up sore.
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Going to Anchorage. Haven't seen or heard from you lately smurfy, how you been?
 
I hate everything about going in planes. The waits, the not knowing the pilots who have your life in their hands. Not knowing all of the engineering in the planes, not being in control of your own life, heights, turbulence, you name it, I hate it.

This is going to suck. Was thinking of taking a couple shots at the airport and ordering a beer while on the plane to calm me down.

I've probably been on 20 plane rides throughout my life, and I know I'll have to fly a lot more through my life because of my career, but everytime during take off and landing I freak out.
 
Ambien FTW! I usually try to fly early in the morning or red-eyes so I can just continue sleeping.
 
JFizzleRaider said:
I hate everything about going in planes. The waits, the not knowing the pilots who have your life in their hands. Not knowing all of the engineering in the planes, not being in control of your own life, heights, turbulence, you name it, I hate it.

This is going to suck. Was thinking of taking a couple shots at the airport and ordering a beer while on the plane to calm me down.

I've probably been on 20 plane rides throughout my life, and I know I'll have to fly a lot more through my life because of my career, but everytime during take off and landing I freak out.
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I used to be that way, but the more I flew the less I worried, and at this point I might be the calmest guy on the plane. But then I fly a whole lot, and have for many years now.

barfo
 
I don't mind planes.

My worst flights I've been were military... once we flew to a remote airfield in Alaska and it was fogged in. We circled and circled and then was a problem with the landing gear which they thought may have not locked. We landed on the snow strip anyway and it was fine.

The other time was a flight on C130 where they flew at around 500 ft the whole way. It was over 100 degrees and we were just baking in there. The turbulance at 500 feet was bouncing the plan all over and quite a few soldiers where throwing up in their helmets. It wasn't fun.

And finally... there was a time I was on a flight from Fairbanks Alaska to Fort Chaffee Arkansas where I had a kidney stone act up and block my kidney during the flight. I wanted to kill myself it hurt so bad. There were no doctors or medication on board.

Planes are so much safer than cars it isn't even funny. If you are not afraid of driving to the store... you shouldn't be of flying on a plane.
 
I hate flying but little pills tend to help. I ended up flying a ton over the last few years due to some family issues back east, so it's gotten easier...but I still like pills.

I have had some lame flying experiences, though:

1. A Mexicali Airlines flight where it bounced WAY back off the ground on an attempted landing.

2.A flight where we were almost landed on the ground when the pilot pulled us straight back into the air really fast because another plane was on our runway.

3. A time when we were ready for take off, starting to speed down the runway and at the last second the pilot slammed on the brakes. Apparently a "door ajar" indicator light had come on. We went back to the terminal for "repairs". The door they were working on was the over wing emergency exit door, 3 rows in front of me. Their work on it included a couple of mechanics outside on the wing pushing against it like you would a car door that's closed but not all the way latched...eventually they decided the indicator was faulty and we flew without incident.

4. I was on a plane and the primary hydraulics malfunctioned so they switched to a backup...the backup system was so loud that it could be heard throughout the cabin...so the pilot makes the following announcement "The noise you are hearing is the backup hydraulic system. The sound is perfectly,errr kind of, errr sort of, normal operating procedure. Everything should be fine." The announcement didn't inspire confidence...

5. I hate it when the pilot says, there's no way around it so we're just going to "ride it out". I have also learned I do not enjoy "Moderate Chop"...which is moderate turbulence...it doesn't feel moderate to me when I'm dropping down an elevator shaft...

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All that said I do like knowing what kind of flight to expect and this is a good site for reference - if you poke around there's some good stuff there:
http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/airmets.php
http://www.turbulenceforecast.com/pireps.php
 
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do you have to go through customs everytime in canada? that would suck for raptors players.
 
Buzz Killington said:
do you have to go through customs everytime in canada? that would suck for raptors players.
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Ya, we do. It is the only time we ever go into an airport. It's a hassle, I think the Raptors have to each time they fly out!
 
I wish flying in a plane didn't bother me. I grew up with am extremely pessimistic mother and unfortunately it rubbed off on me
 
JFizzleRaider said:
I wish flying in a plane didn't bother me. I grew up with am extremely pessimistic mother and unfortunately it rubbed off on me
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You keep saying "flying in a plane". Do you have alternate means of flying? Are you, in fact, Superman?

barfo
 
This Jan. I'm going from Minneapolis to Denver, layover, then Denver to Portland. Then a week later Portland to San Fran, then back to Minneapolis. I'm fine with flying usually, but all this weird crap going on lately is making me a bit nervous. I'm also concerned with flying into Denver in Jan, not knowing what the weather will be like.
 
maxiep said:
I had an episode of severe turbulence over the North Atlantic one night. The entire time I kept thinking to myself, "They overengineer these things and they can't just break apart. It's rough, but I'm fine."

A few months later, that Air France plane was ripped apart by turbulence.

Next time, I don't think I'll be able to talk myself into being calm with that line of thinking.
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Well, why didn't you just go in the cockpit and tell the pilot what he was doing wrong and how to fly it better?
 
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