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Originally Posted by Law

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My missus is the worse flyer out there, she is exactly as pedrosa describes.

I have had a fair few crap flights though.

1 - Woman comes over the tannoy saying she was the pilot and she was just as good as the men......that was my worse landing i have EVER had.....she then came on the tannoy and appologised and claimed atleast she normally was.....pure hilarious.

2 - Nothing worse on a flight than drunk idiots....Ibiza this year sat near us was two men who were going to ibiza for just the night.....they were absolutely hammered and kept screaming the plane was going to crash, which when your missus isnt the best flyer, it isnt helpfull

coming back from amsterdam some lads in front of us were saying they couldnt wait to get home to have a good scrub !!! lol obv wot they had been up to lol

I have been in heavy turbulence and looked down the length of the plane, and actually seen the fuselage twisting and flexing.
Or in a turbo prop that landed on two wheels (the front and side ones), everyone leaned, and the pilot just waited for what felt like ages for the 3rd wheel to settle before he braked. Hard.

I was on one flight, that I think was more or less the last one into the airport, that came in at an insane angle to compensate for very stormy cross winds, and just as we touched down straightened it out, I was basically getting the approach view looking out the side of the plane the pilot should have been getting looking forwards.

My sister tossed her cookies from air sickness ? before she even got on the plane.
Ok it was a DC 3 and run by the air air force.

Asked by the helio pilot to go for a flight, when we are about 3000 ft up he say's can you hear that "funny" sound in the gear box. Not really any more over my a**.
The gearbox failed 5 hours later with total main rotor lock. lucky he was 20 ft off the ground. even then he had full rudder and just tossed it on the deck.

I flew from ft Lauderdale to the Bahamas a few years ago on a gummen float plane. You could smell the salt water rot on the inside ? 2 very sweet girls driving it. So chatted away and asked them over to the boat for drinks and a meal out.

2 weeks later the wing folded off 100 ft after take off. 16 dead. same plane/run/crew. The boat arrived 2 weeks early so i would have been on the same flight. Still hunts me a bit as we got on so well. I watched them take off and crash.

I flew to Cyprus earlier in the year with 4 other blokes for a weeks trail riding and we were all sat on the plane letching at a gorgeous girl in her mid 20's who was with her family. one of the guys (Chris) sat next to me leans over and says to me "If that was your daughter you'd still be bathing her, eh"? one of the other guys 2 rows away looks at Chris and says ............."your ears havent popped yet have they chris"
needless to say i was absolutely ****ing myself laughing. the girls mother was giving Chris the daggers for the rest of the flight.

i was allowed to sit in the cockpit for a landing - very exciting!

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Originally Posted by Pedrosa

I would really hate to be sat next to someone who was a real nervous flyer. You know the type that grabs your arm and sinks in their nails at the slightest bit of turbulence. I am an ok flyer, I just find it soooo boring but someone like I mentioned can easilly unsettle you.

Do you find flying like riding in an elevator? I NEVER speak to a stranger sat next to me or to anyone in a lift?

Don`t ever fly with me then!!!! The one and only time i`ve flown I arrived at the airport with my pepsi max bottle topped up more with brandy than pepsi, swigged the last drop with the last of the diazepam my doctor had given me to overcome my fear, i looked at my watch... it was 9.10am An announcement came over the tannoy that the flight was delayed so i swaggered to the easyjet desk demanding to know if there were engine problems. They said the flight was delayed due to the fact that a lady on the return flight had taken ill but i told them i didn`t believe them and was sure the delay was due to the plane losing an engine or something. Finally boarded... we took off and i had my nails dug into my partner and my brown paper bag balanced on my knees (very clever really!) I told everyone to shut up whilst they went thru the emergency thingeys, refused to take my safety belt off for the whole flight and then shouted at everyone who got up and walked around and told them they were unbalancing the plane!!! Eventually the stewardess asked me if I had a flying phobia and insisted i go into the cockpit to meet the pilot.... BIG MISTAKE.... he turned round to say hi and i realised he didn`t have his hands on the steering wheel

Finally landed 2 hours later and i`ve never been so glad to get my feet on firm ground.... if god had intended us to fly he`d have given us wings!!!

This is what happened to my mate.....

He was flying from San fran to London to coem home for xmas a few years back.....

He was sat next to this guy who insisted on showing him terrisot videos of people exected iraq by AL_Kida....he said the content was distusbing and nasty we talked about it once, never mentioned it again.

I was flying ito the Us a few years ago, the plane landed it hit the run way and almost flipped over that really scared me, the only other time I felt like was when i was once when I raced boats, the boat flipped and I got caught under rigging and couldn't get air, that freaked me out.