Love to sit next to you...sweating and counting. I'd have you down as a terrorist and have to disable you with a whack from my handbag.
If I'm honest, flying is my rollercoaster. I enjoy turbulence and bad weather [although a bright blue day or clear night sky is an undoubted delight]. Airliners can take an enormous amount of punishment and still be fine, so I trust the technology. I should imagine our own frequent flyer [FLT] could tell a few stomach churning stories. I have a few myself. Enjoyed every one of them too. When I've been sailing I've frightened the living s*** out of myself on one or two occasions, but that was my poor judgement of the wind and waves. I learned a lot from the experiences.
You maybe right. Or maybe it's something inside you that makes you scared.? I have two relatives who white knuckle their way through every flight. But my Mum of 101 years took her first flight when she was 90 and she thoroughly enjoyed it. Although she had an aisle seat she swapped for a window one and spent the flight going ooh-aah, look at that, isn't that good.
Looks like Seb Coe is in trouble now: http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/34908237 I think when the Greeks invented democracy each official was elected by lottery, he/she served a year and then was replaced at the next lottery. This avoided any influence from outside forces and hence no chance for corruption. Granted the winner had no experience in his elected job - no difference from today I'd say!
I don't like flying. It's the taking off and landing I don't like as that's when most accidents happen, my husband has nearly lost fingers on several occasions! I'm ok once we are up as long as there is no turbulence or strange noises. I also hate roller coasters or basically anything which drops you from a height
Flying is quite safe, just think at anyone time, somewhere around the world 365 days a year, there are 500,000 people up in the air............
Yes I know. We always try to watch the planes taking off and landing before we go. Logic tells me I'd be very unlucky if something happened but emotion says aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Sadly, at 101 she's a bit too frail to fly these days, although I'll tell her what you said. While we were on holiday that year someone asked her why she wasn't afraid of flying. Her answer was typical. One reason was that she was going with other family members and we wouldn't board the aircraft if it wasn't a safe thing to do [fair enough, she trusted our judgement], but the clinical reason was if the plane wants to crash there's precious little I can do about it so what's the point of worrying.? Which is good advice to anyone.
I was on a flight from Lisbon to the Azores and when we landed everyone clapped. It was only when we were waiting to come back and the plane came in too fast and had to take a second go at landing that I realised why. It didn't give me confidence knowing he was going to be flying us back to Lisbon.
This is going to read very ridiculous, but I'd spend a day taking off and landing. It's one of my favourite moments of a flight.
I went to Madeira quite happily...then on my return I found the airport listed on the 'most dangerous airport' list The pad is built over water and the planes land towards the water and frequently have to go round again.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/t...-off-charges-to-combat-pollution.html?ref=yfp Talk about charging drop off charges at airports to save pollution and encourage public transport use. Absolute tosh...£3 will not stop anyone from being dropped straight off at the airport rather than struggle on public transport with 2 adults, 2 kids and cases. And for airlines to talk about saving on fuel is rich. Why don't they admit the truth...another way to sting travellers...don't try and hide behind being righteous.
I love the turbulence.I am a thrillseeker and enjoy rollercoasters so it's not a surprise. But my best ever experience on a flight was the view I had of Greenland as I was flying to America. It's still printed on the inside of my mind and it was and still is the most astonishing and beautiful scenery I've ever seen.
Yep totally agree love take off and landing,in fact the bit in middle is the least interesting, especially if the films are crap.
