Nervous Flyers?

[carrust]

Don't watch BBC4 for an hour or so.

[joggerjayne]

I love flying.

:0)

[Psybbo]

Just as well
:-) ^^

[Mass_Hysteria]

This isn't flying.......it's the opposite!!

[Prudie]

Can I open my eyes yet?

[joggerjayne]

Is it about crashes??

[gingejbee]

Quite the opposite- It's very reassuring to see how thorough testing is now.

[joggerjayne]

It's more dangerous driving to the airport that going on the plane.

Well, it is from here to Gatwick, anyway.

[Jeza]

I was once on a plane that hit turbulance. The plane fell 10,000 feet and everything else hit the ceiling/ roof. Very frightening. people were throwing up every where. Babies were crying, passengers were screaming and Micmak slept through it all. Memories.

[joggerjayne]

That's a deep sleep !!!

[jno]

a plane I was on dropped though a little hole in space somewhere near London City Airport. I remember wondering why my hand, holding a G&T, was hitting the overhead locker.

[Jeza]

JJ Mic could sleep for England. I have changed the bed sheets (in the past) with him in it by rolling him over and back again.

[grasscarp]

If anyone is nervous take yourself to your nearest airfield flying club and have a trial lesson. But beware - flying is addictive and you may just go on and on as I did. Aviation now my whole life.

[joggerjayne]

Carp, how exciting.

:0)

[Mass_Hysteria]

I spent 24 years building commercial aircraft and I STILL love flying. The inspection process is so so thorough.

[grasscarp]

Very JJ. Achieved commercial pilots licence, did flight planning for Concorde, teach Flight dispatchers all over the world etc. Love my work.

[jno]

that sounds nice, grasscarp, though in general I'd prefer to let others do the actual flying. I had a colleague long ago who flew for a hobby and often tootled off to places like Deauville for the day. But it sounded a rather expensive hobby.

[grasscarp]

Probably le Touquet jno. Went there often when training. Will say no more and plead the fifth amendment.

[society]

Jno, Grasscarp might be your colleague :)

[jno]

no, no grasscarp is a pro, my colleague (now dead) was just an amateur who loved flying. His actual job, or part of it, was doing crosswords!