Commercial Airliners

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Flying scares the crap out of me.

 

[Lowste]

Pan Am
BA
KLM
Virgin Atlantic
Virgin America
AA
Delta
Southwest
Alaska Air
NWA
United
Continental
US Airways
Qantas
Air New Zealand
Korean Air
Cathay Pacific
US Airforce
US Navy


And quite a few small regional airlines whose names escape me.

No Easyjet, you have never lived...

 

[TX Bill]

What a beautiful plane !!!

 

[SerenityNigh]

Always liked the funny shaped turbofan on the new 737s

 

[SerenityNigh]

Flying scares the crap out of me.

That's quite normal. What part is most unsettling? I'll see if I can find some apt gifs.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

That's quite normal. What part is most unsettling? I'll see if I can find some apt gifs.

The months leading up to flying, the sitting in the airport, getting on the plane, taking off, flying to destination, landing, knowing I've got to do it all again coming back!

Think it was @Boss_Blue who posted pics of plane crashes when I mentioned I hated flying a while back, it didn't help.

 

[Rsoles]

Ok, so I'm a huge airliner nut. Love looking at pictures of airliners, watching Youtube videos of take offs and landings. Fascinated with air traffic control. When I was younger, I'd go down to the airport and take pictures of various planes.

Now, I'll sit there with Flightradar24 up on my computer and then tune into the airport tower of choice and sit there and listen to the planes landing and taking off while watching online.

I had a business trip last year where I could have had a straight flight from Houston to Seattle but I found out that if I took the Houston to Denver to Seattle flight, I could fly on the new 787 so I paid the extra $150 out of my own pocket just to do it.

Some of my favorite websites:

http://www.airliners.net/
http://www.liveatc.net/
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpeedbirdHD
https://www.youtube.com/user/N178UA

Anyone else got this sickness or is it just me?

Just you mate

 

[Rsoles]

The months leading up to flying, the sitting in the airport, getting on the plane, taking off, flying to destination, landing, knowing I've got to do it all again coming back!

Think it was @Boss_Blue who posted pics of plane crashes when I mentioned I hated flying a while back, it didn't help.

Nothing much to worry about mate oh by the way over in Canada just had a Romanian pilot for sunwing found slumped over in cockpit 3 times over the limit so don't you worry too much

 

[SerenityNigh]

On the U2, one of the most difficult planes to fly, and the chase cars that assist on landing

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Nothing much to worry about mate oh by the way over in Canada just had a Romanian pilot for sunwing found slumped over in cockpit 3 times over the limit so don't you worry too much

Probably trying to get into Britain before Brexit!

 

[Rsoles]

Nothing much to worry about mate oh by the way over in Canada just had a Romanian pilot for sunwing found slumped over in cockpit 3 times over the limit so don't you worry too much

Sorry Lou

 

[SerenityNigh]

The months leading up to flying, the sitting in the airport, getting on the plane, taking off, flying to destination, landing, knowing I've got to do it all again coming back!

Think it was @Boss_Blue who posted pics of plane crashes when I mentioned I hated flying a while back, it didn't help.

Oh, can't really help with that. Try drinking? Maybe some sort of mysticism if that doesn't help?

 

[Boss_Blue]

@Del
@Darth Vader

 

[SerenityNigh]

Probably trying to get into Britain before Brexit!

Probably scared of flying himself!

 

[Rsoles]

Probably scared of flying himself!

Maybe that's why he drinks first makes sense now