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Offline rogwar

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Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« on: July 25, 2008, 03:32:27 PM »
....sitting up close to the bulk head, enjoying the lake scenerey of Lewisville and Grapevine on final approach, and then hearing Betty from the cockpit....

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

Offline 007Rusty

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2008, 03:33:45 PM »
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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2008, 03:39:15 PM »
 :pray :pray :pray

Offline john9001

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2008, 03:47:03 PM »
thats better than hearing the pilot say " more throttle, pull up, pull up , oh @#$%&*.

Offline Winks

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2008, 03:50:57 PM »
thats better than hearing the pilot say " more throttle, pull up, pull up , oh @#$%&*.

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2008, 03:58:11 PM »
....sitting up close to the bulk head, enjoying the lake scenerey of Lewisville and Grapevine on final approach, and then hearing Betty from the cockpit....

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

BTDT only when returning from Denver to Birmingham and finding out you were descending into a pop up thunderstorm and hearing the rain and hail hitting the windscreen and the pilots yelling "OH S***" as the plane drops several hundred feet as "Bi**hing Betty" says "deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR!"
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Offline TracerX

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2008, 03:59:40 PM »
....sitting up close to the bulk head, enjoying the lake scenerey of Lewisville and Grapevine on final approach, and then hearing Betty from the cockpit....

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

deedle deedle...WIND SHEAR, WIND SHEAR

At least you will have the consolation that you were not flying coach when you went to meet St. Peter.  I thought everyone wanted to go out in First Class.   :D

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2008, 04:09:51 PM »
Try being in the back of a Coast Guard HH-65 helo actually suffering from a heart attack and hear the pilot over the intercom to the co-pilot, "Does that look right to you?"

CP, "Looks a little high doesn't it?"

P, "Must be the intruments, we'd be feeling vibrations if it was reading right."

Me, "Hey fellas, want to let me know before we crash what's going on?"

P, "Don't worry, the intruments are showing 25% tourqe splits on the engines :O but if that was right the transmission would have already torn itself apart. We're good but we wont be able to hover and land at the hospital pad, we'll have to do a rolling landing at the Gitmo airfield and take you over to the hospital by boat."

Me, "Gee guys thanks for that, not like I don't already have enough to worry about back here."


Next day get medivaced out of Cuba to Miami on a C-9 hospital plane and have the flight surgeon tell me right before we taxi, "Don't worry about anything, if we need to we can perform open heart surgery in flight."

Not sure what bothered me more about THAT statement. The fact that he told me that, or the look of anticipation on his face as he told me that.

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Offline Dichotomy

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2008, 04:13:38 PM »
HOLY  :O Hornet!!!!

and there I was thinking life sucked for me right now
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Offline Hornet33

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2008, 04:22:33 PM »
Yeah I was an un-diagnosed hyper tensive. Underway on the Cutter Legare in July 02, 200 miles south of Cuba, and out of nowhere, heart attack. The left decending artery in my heart colapsed due to my extremely high blood pressure.

Never passed out or anything. Was awake and alert for the whole thing. Got to Gitmo and they stablized me and got me ready to go to Miami General where I had a stent put in. Was out of the hospital after 5 days and flew home a few days after that. A month later I was back at work.

I did suffer permenant heart damage though, but considering the docs all told me I was lucky to have a heart attack because if I hadn't and they didn't catch all of this in time I probably would have stroked out.

Meds everyday, get my exercise and I'm good. Just can't do all the things I used to do before but I'm still here and kicking so I'll take it.
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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2008, 04:23:50 PM »
indeed
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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2008, 04:31:54 PM »
At least you will have the consolation that you were not flying coach when you went to meet St. Peter.  I thought everyone wanted to go out in First Class.   :D

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2008, 05:06:54 PM »
thats better than hearing the pilot say " more throttle, pull up, pull up , oh @#$%&*.

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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2008, 05:22:00 PM »
I was on a pontoon plane on a fly-in hunting & fishing trip, it was an old Beachcraft, after take-off the dashboard was jumping up & down, about 10min in a knob falls off the instrument panel, the pilot picks it up off the floor and turns to me and ask "Hey, did you see where this fell off from?", lets just say it didn't instill much confidence in me about his piloting skills.
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Re: Flying in first-class is not fun when...
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2008, 01:11:56 PM »
Beechcraft pontoon plane?
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