Are you afraid – of flying?

[jigsaw]

Like RPM, my outlook is "When it's my time to go, it's time." I'm not going to live in fear.

If it's a commercial flight, there's not much I can do about it. If I'm flying a small plane, the only way I'm going down is if a major part of the plane comes off. Anything else, and I can get the plane on the ground. About the other only concern I have with flying small planes is a mid air with some idiot that doesn't scan for traffic.

Chairboy; Having really broad shoulders myself, I've found that getting a window seat and setting a bit sideways makes the most comfortable seating for me.

[Tarmac]

Some people fly Boeing for the same reason they only consider GM, Ford, and Chrysler when buying cars.  It has nothing to do with Beetle's speculations, and it has everything to do with the idea of supporting your neighbor's business.

[rpm]

Chairboy, I had an experience similar to yours but with opposite results. I sat center seat, mid cabin, on an American MD-80 from Miami to Dallas. I'm 6'3", 220 lbs. I was scrunched up, shins scraping the seat in front of me the whole flight. I've had more room sitting in the back seat of a '02 Mustang. I will not fly on an MD-80 again.

[bustr]

My father was a comercial pilot into his 60's. After flying many years with him, his contemporaries, and his students, my only bias is that the pilot of my current flight is at least as accomplished as my father.

In reality there are very few bad pilots in the US or the EU when it comes to ferrying human beings. The insurance underwriters make it too expensive for any kind of a foul up.

If the terrorist were going to make flying in the US a horrific experience, they would have contiued for several days after 9/11. But in short order they would have been shut down due to how truely dedicated the US security culture is to protecting its citizens. One of the hall marks of a First World industrialised culture is it's dedication to protecting it's citizens in times of crises. All watermelon aside the US and the EU value the lives of their citizens. Political and sociological ideologies aside..........

[cpxxx]

Being a pilot and all, so I'm hardly likely to be scared of flying.  9/11 never put me off airline flying either. That was a one off and virtually impossible to duplicate.  

If I was to be scared then a good test will come in April when I'm off to Vietnam.  
There will be a total of eleven airline flights from commuter to 747 on that trip. Should be fun. .

[SOB]

I flew to the AH Con in October after 9/11.  I had a stopover in Salt Lake City, UT....it was interesting to see National Guardsman standing at security with M16s on thier person.  I don't remember how full the flight was, but it wasn't memorably empty.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by bustr
By the way beet1e, calling a man/men out has more coup to it if you do it in person face to face. I ride through the San Francisco bay subway tunnel twice each day to work. It's 6 miles long under the bay, and an accepted terroist target.

That's interesting - I used to make that exact same journey when I lived in Concord and worked in downtown San Francisco at one of the big banks. Next month I have to make a journey via another recognised terrorist target - the Eurotunnel under the English Channel - and that's around 25 miles long. I've never been to your country of birth, but I thought you should know that in the English language it's spelt Morocco.

Tarmac said

Some people fly Boeing for the same reason they only consider GM, Ford, and Chrysler when buying cars. It has nothing to do with Beetle's speculations, and it has everything to do with the idea of supporting your neighbor's business.

Hehe, not even the airlines themselves do that! You might want to share your code of moral ethics with the CEOs at United Airlines, American Airlines, US Airways, NorthWest Airlines and America West - to name but a few, all of whose fleets include Airbus. Why is that? Cost effectiveness maybe? Creating a better deal for their business customers? You know, supporting their neighbours' business and all...

Rshubert!

Beet1e, are you afraid of guns?

I'm afraid of being fat!

Sandman/Mr. Toad - yes, I know how you feel about the security being a PITA and all the delays that result. We've been dealing with that in Europe for so many years that I just don't notice it any more.

[Sox62]

Cindy and I flew to Copper Mountain Colorado to ski on January 1st,Y2K.

Nah,we aren't scared.

[OneWordAnswer]

Originally posted by beet1e
 We just don’t have that sense of paranoia that something bad is about to happen. Of course, that doesn’t mean it won’t – just that maybe we have a good sense of proportion.

So there it is. The more guns we have, the more crime we'll see. It really is that simple.

Irony.

[Halo]

(QUOTE)  Are you afraid -- of flying?  (UNQUOTE)

No.

[Zulu7]

Bustr I get ignored because every one else in here is too busy w***ing over their bloody guns lol

[Toad]

You certainly seem fixated on guns; seems like you bring them up in every post.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by OneWordAnswer
Irony.

OneWordAnswer = ra (persona non grata)


-contemplation

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Toad
You certainly seem fixated on guns;  

Hehe, I can think of people on this board who are far more fixated on guns than Zulu7.

[Dune]

I flew into DFW a week after the American flight bounced off the LBJ freeway and cought one of the water towers with a wing.  You could see the gash in the tank as we were landing.

BTW, as a comic once said, it's not flying we're afraid of.  It's suddenly not flying that scares us.