Do you like flying?

[AuCN]

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Wild Bill (that I mentioned in the previous post) was flying that same plane when he crashed into Denali.

 

[CRM 114]

Roberto Clemente too if I'm not mistaken.

 

[ruprecht]

I dont really like flying but what are you going to do. My best flying memory was a handjob under the blanket from my future wife. I knew right then I had to marry this woman.

 

[botfly10]

You got jokes but is kind of a fucked up industry. My bro committed himself to this since the age of 14 and is still facing a potential pay cut because of a merger and despite a spotless record. But he loves it and goes and flies ww2 bombers and does aerobatics in old Yugoslavian planes on his days off. You can't just luck your way into flying a shit-ton of people around (At least for the majors in the U.S.), you have to have the hours logged, simulator time, and record to prove it, so there's that. That said, he'd be the first to tell you that he makes out pretty well, as he should.

My uncle flies for united and mostly loves it. Never heard him complain about the pay. He learned to fly over 10 years in the air force and still had a hard time breaking into commercial piloting.

 

[SERE Bear]

. 1) I landed in a KC-10 with the refueling boom fully extended. Huge fireball out the back of the plane all the way down the runway with firetrucks in hot pursuit. We evacuated using a mobile stair trunk and ran away as soon as the plane stopped. The Back of the plane was charred and the boom was a twisted piece of metal

2) Had a 777 engine seize on take off right at the point of no return on the runway. BOOM, FIRE, SMOKE. We were bussed back to the terminal.

3) 676 flaps stuck in the up position. Emergency services were alerted because they thought the pilot would have too land too fast and run out of runway or heat the brakes to the point of explosion. (Dude landed like a BOSS, used every inch of white painted runway from one end to the other, and everything worked out fine. Emergency service trucks returned to their homes unused.


All three times we were told to put our heads between our legs thus assuming the crash position. The 2) time the crew yelled it as a reflex when the BOOM happened.


Other than that I have flown 100s of times with nothing happening

My newspaper clipping from 1994 of the incident

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

My uncle lost his mom on that flight out of o'hare that crashed in indiana in the 70s. My dad is a private pilot and his engines stalled over the gulf of mexico. The plane dropped from 30,000 to 5,000 feet before he got them started again. Now his new wife refuses to fly with him lol

This girl lost her mom on one of those two prop puddle jumpers. Hit some bad weather and it was over. I like flying, but prefer to do it with jet engines.

Did your dad have to change his undies after that one? Sounds like some scary shit.

 

[KittiesKorner]

My uncle flies for united and mostly loves it. Never heard him complain about the pay. He learned to fly over 10 years in the air force and still had a hard time breaking into commercial piloting.

My brother doesn't complain about the pay either. He complains about the potential pay cut and loss of seniority because of the merger. He flies for continental so once they close the deal i guess he and your uncle will be coworkers

 

[KittiesKorner]

This girl lost her mom on one of those two prop puddle jumpers. Hit some bad weather and it was over. I like flying, but prefer to do it with jet engines.

Did your dad have to change his undies after that one? Sounds like some scary shit.

I doubt it. I think he has a secret death wish lol

 

[Tjodalv]

Love flying, it gets me places dipshits like Desbro have never heard of. It's even better when you're on an 11 hour flight, the booze is free, and you somehow end up with an entire row to yourself.

 

[ruprecht]

Lost buddy holly and Lynard Skynrd on planes, too.

;(

Patsy Cline, Jim Croce

 

[Desperado34]

Patsy Cline, Jim Croce

Damn. Didn't know Croce died from that. For some reason I always thought he died from throat cancer or something.

 

[Desperado34]

Similar to others, I used to love flying, then went through a period where I was terrified almost the whole time. I got through that and am much better. I fly on about 10 planes a month so it is good that I got that over with. I would just get panicked that if I died, I would be leaving my family alone. Now I am fully accepting of that fact. I always make sure to thank the pilots directly if they are available after the flight. My brother is an amateur pilot. My father in law is a retired military and commercial pilot. I have flown bush planes in Australia and in Alaska. Those are the particularly scary ones. We even had Wild Bill in Alaska as our pilot one summer. He was supposed to come pick up our gear and he crashed in Denali the week prior.

I have had several helicopter pilots as well. That is even more scary. Flying in a helicopter never gets old, but man is it dangerous. Especially when we are landing in swamps just big enough for the helicopter up to 10 times a day. Sometimes he couldn't even set down and I would have to climb up the skid with 50 pounds of samples in my pack and a shotgun in one hand. I wouldn't do that with just any pilot though. I worked with that guy for years.

My scariest flying moment though was flying into Denver. As we were about to touchdown, the plane starting crabbing and one wing dipped and almost hit the ground. The pilot gunned it and we almost went straight up. We circled back around and landed no problem. But people were throwing up and the flight attendants were crying. Crazy. It is also scary flying in extremely religious countries. Many of them think "oh well, if something happens, it was gods doing" and don't necessarily try to avert disaster.

I was just at the Rocky Mountain Airshow yesterday and today watching the Air Force Thunderbirds perform. That was awesome. I will post some photos once I sort through them. My wife took 250 photos so there should be some good ones.

Wow!!

What do you do for a living?!?

 

[Desperado34]

Love flying, it gets me places dipshits like Desbro have never heard of. It's even better when you're on an 11 hour flight, the booze is free, and you somehow end up with an entire row to yourself.

Surely believe your piece of shit ass travels and even socializes.

I have my doubts, fatty.

 

[ruprecht]

Damn. Didn't know Croce died from that. For some reason I always thought he died from throat cancer or something.

I forgot Randy Rhoads.

 

[DC]

I wanted to take my almost three year old. He loves planes! Everytime he hears one, he finds it and says "Look Daddy, a plane!"

To rocky Mountain bear

 

[DC]

Wow!!

What do you do for a living?!?

He's a Geologist, I believe.

 

[Tjodalv]

I forgot Randy Rhoads.

Stevie Ray Vaughan up at Alpine Valley.

Surely believe your piece of shit ass travels and even socializes.

I have my doubts, fatty.

Yep, 17 countries and counting (not nearly as impressive as Mr. GoldCyanide up there, I know...but it's a start); swam in every ocean but the Arctic, eaten more animals than you can name (well...so has everyone else...[springbok ribs are fucking delicious, btw]), have places to stay for free on 3 continents and a few islands, and so on.

It's not my fault that dadbuddy only provides you with shelter, food, and transportation -- I'm sure if you begged long enough he'd fund a trip to a Mexican whore house or something as a "finally moving the **** out of my house" gift.

 

[Desperado34]

Stevie Ray Vaughan up at Alpine Valley.



Yep, 17 countries and counting (not nearly as impressive as Mr. GoldCyanide up there, I know...but it's a start); swam in every ocean but the Arctic, eaten more animals than you can name (well...so has everyone else...[springbok ribs are fucking delicious, btw]), have places to stay for free on 3 continents and a few islands, and so on.

It's not my fault that dadbuddy only provides you with shelter, food, and transportation -- I'm sure if you begged long enough he'd fund a trip to a Mexican whore house or something as a "finally moving the **** out of my house" gift.

Lol they pay your ass to do what, exactly?

Surely a toolbag like you isn't doing anything cool or productive.btw, stil don't believe you and think you are a total fucking tool.

 

[gpphat]

I have flown countless times, most of it has been domestic and a handful of international travel...my only problem with flying is that I can't sleep on planes and that is 100% on me. It's not that I am afraid and that is keeping me up, I just can't ever get comfortable enough to fall asleep. If I could sleep, then I would love to fly...but because I can't sleep on planes I can only say I don't mind it at all. When there is a 1 in 29,400,000 chance of being killed in a plane crash, it's kind of hard to really be afraid of flying.

 

[AuCN]

Wow!!

What do you do for a living?!?

Exploration geochemistry. I explore for gold. And no...not like the dumbshits on the gold shows on tv.