I always like it when they say, "In the event of a water landing . . . " If you didn't put the plane there on purpose it wasn't a landing, it was a crash, water or no water.
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I always like it when they say, "In the event of a water landing . . . " If you didn't put the plane there on purpose it wasn't a landing, it was a crash, water or no water.
Yeah, disregading that "water landing" is an oxymoron to begin with, a plane floats about as well as a boat flies.
Windsor - Apparently, you subscribe to the theory that any landing you walk away from is a good landing. I believe that is a pilot's motto.
It is T minus 25 days until I fly over to Britain. Thanks for starting this thread. Just what I need to be thinking about!!!
I voted for windsheer/weather because EarlJam [forgot?] to include gremlins. Now matter what altitude, 5.5 feet or 20,000 feet, them are some scary critters.
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I don't talk about flying.
<shudder>
I don't worry about any of that actually.
I've always loved lewis grizzard's comment that it was not flying that scared him. it was crashing and burning that did.
I don't fly that much anymore. My arms get tired.
[insert uproarious laughter]
-PilotJam
I knew I shouldn't have read this thread...
I'm pretty much afraid of flying in general. Takeoffs and landings are the worst, but I don't like turbulence either. Sleeping usually helps, but about 10% of the time I'll have a dream about the plane crashing. Waking up from a plane crash nightmare to find yourself still on a plane? Yeah, not awesome.
No hijacked plane option?
The odds of my being in any sort of plane crash are so small that worrying about what type of crash I might be involved in seems irrational to me. I don't give it a second's thought.
I took the weather/windshear option. Actually, that's probably not what scares me the most. It's the landing on some deserted island with scary people that steal children and have a smoke monster "security system". If you think I'm flying over the south pacific any time soon, you must be crazy.