Flying.

[leefer]

I still hate it...it scares me shitless,last year i had a very bumpy landing at Birmingham Airport...i ended up holding the hand of a Baggies fan who delighted in telling me i was the only man hes ever heard scream out loud!
In short i know i have more chance of perishing on the Motorway driving to the airport but i still dread it and end up sitting in my flight seat ,not eating drinking or talking for the whole flight..with just the occasional scream....anyone ever had any bad or good experiences?

[LucienSanchez]

I'm planning on learning to fly within the next 2 years... flying is fascinating stuff!

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

I often fly with a mate who is scared off flying and he will only fly if he gets a window seat does my head in as i never get to sit next to the window. Anyhow we were going to munich and it was cold as fuck we came into land touched down but whereas when you noramlly land you start to slow down this didn't happend the engines were going mad in full reversve but we still didn't stop you could hear the wheels screaming still didn't stop speeded up again and the plane went sides then took off for a second go. On the seconded landing we started to slow down but the plane spun around to the left a little. I was shitting it, my mate who is scaryed of flying was just staring straight ahead white as a gost well funny!

Just think of it like this if it all goes wrong and the plane crashs you are more of less certain to die so at least you won't have to worry about ending up in hospital and catching mrsa. Every cloud has silver lining

leaving on a jet plane don't know when I'll be abck again.....................

[STFC_Gazza]

If I fly I have to sit near the window. I used to be fine at flying but I am somewhat worried about it now. Prob from watching old air crash things. I then realised that the reason I worry now is because you used to get music etc to listen to on long-haul flights etc to take my mind off it.

A few beers dont go amiss- I'm ok when I get in the air its the take-off that does me in. Landings are fine.

[Samdy Gray]

I love flying. If I had 20/20 vision then I would've joined the RAF to become a pilot. But alas, I don't.

[wiggy]

My sister is scared of flying.

I had driven her to Lullsgate once several years ago and waited with her in the airport. We were watching planes come in and land, and one had smoke coming out of its landing gear. Fire tenders went out and doused the wheels with water.

About an hour later my sister had to board the very same plane to fly to Greece. She was petrified.

[Simon Pieman]

Flights are pretty boring. A bit like when you're on a train for a substantial amount of time.

[DV]

my worry is less about the actual flying but rather who you might get stuck with on the plane, no nothing like.....

We came back from Florida one year and this little kid has really bad food poisioning and was really ill and pretty much throwing up and shitting everywhere....

You can just crack open a window or anything....literally have to sit there with the smell humming around for a good 5/6 hours....not nice

[Don Rogers Shop]

That was like mk away minibus trip dan

[sonic youth]

i don't mind flying, the worst bit is that i'm very impatient when travelling so get bored and irritable.

only problem is that i get quite claustrophobic, so i can't relax at all on a plane.

[axs]

The only interesting bits are take off and landing, and the occassional good view. The rest is dull. Had really bad turbulence on a flight once which was interesting and a bit nervy, you could tell the people who were proper scared because they were looking around all panicked.

[Sippo]

I've flown backwards before.

[axs]

fire exit seat?

[Sippo]

no it was a converted dc10, and all the seats were facing the 'wrong way'. Strange experience.

[axs]

did you all lean forwards during push back?