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Took this pic at work the other day. Looks like typical England weather.
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Flew home on this big bird 787 from my trip to Liverpool and the Hull City Match in March. We continued our journey to Berlin afterwards. This pic was taken in Frankfurt. Lufthansa hub port.
 
Very few things I hate more than turbulence, scares the crap out of me.

For that reason alone I won't be travelling further than 4 hours away by air ever again, plus I find anything longer incredibly boring.

My 7 year old daughter is going to Vegas with her mum in July and I know the nearer it gets I will be a bag of nerves until I know she has landed.
 

Thomasc said:
Very few things I hate more than turbulence, scares the crap out of me.

For that reason alone I won't be travelling further than 4 hours away by air ever again, plus I find anything longer incredibly boring.

My 7 year old daughter is going to Vegas with her mum in July and I know the nearer it gets I will be a bag of nerves until I know she has landed.
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Turbulence doesn't restrict itself to 4hr + flights....I've had much worse on short hops around Europe. In fairness the general level of turbulence in aircraft is no worse than driving a car over a cobbled street. The episode this week was very unusual and was just one of those things. Strangely, it took a hellish flight from Lyon to Amsterdam on a small Embraer in horrendous weather to get me to fly without concern for turbulence. I got off that flight and thought if that Embraer can withstand the kind of roughing up the weather gave it that night without being badly damaged then flying is safe as houses.
 
evertony said:
Turbulence doesn't restrict itself to 4hr + flights....I've had much worse on short hops around Europe. In fairness the general level of turbulence in aircraft is no worse than driving a car over a cobbled street. The episode this week was very unusual and was just one of those things. Strangely, it took a hellish flight from Lyon to Amsterdam on a small Embraer in horrendous weather to get me to fly without concern for turbulence. I got off that flight and thought if that Embraer can withstand the kind of roughing up the weather gave it that night without being badly damaged then flying is safe as houses.
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I know....its just my way of trying to convince myself that a shorter flight means less chance of encountering any, anything to get me through.

I remember a particularly bad flight on the way over to Majorca in my twenties, when it felt like the plane was dropping like a stone. Luckily a few bevvies pre-flight didn't make it seem as bad.
 

This is a fun story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/king-willem-alexander-pilot.html

Who’s at the Controls on KLM? Sometimes, the Dutch King

King Willem-Alexander said in an interview published Wednesday that for the last 21 years, he has flown twice a month as a commercial airline co-pilot for KLM’s Cityhopper subsidiary, a regional carrier that flies among European cities

He was seldom recognized in uniform, particularly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when safety protocols were introduced to limit access to cockpits, he said.

The king would often greet passengers over the intercom, but not readily identify himself. “The advantage is that I can always say that I wish everyone a heartfelt welcome in the name of the captain and the crew,” he told De Telegraaf newspaper. “So I don’t have to say my own name. But most of the people don’t listen anyway.”

Willem-Alexander, 50, became king in 2013 after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated at age 75. He became the Netherlands’ first king in 123 years after three successive queens.

While Willem-Alexander’s love of flying was not secret, his interview revealed far more detail about the extent of his regular piloting for KLM. Kysia Hekster, a reporter who covers the Dutch royals for the broadcaster NOS, said the interview was intended to highlight the king’s role with the national carrier after he was criticized for taking Emirates Airlines last year to visit Australia and New Zealand.

He is one of a handful of royals who are also known to be pilots.

Prince William of Britain was a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot for the British military and has flown for an air ambulance service. His younger brother, Prince Harry, flew Apache attack helicopters in Afghanistan with British Army Air Corps. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei sometimes pilots his own flights on state visits.

Willem-Alexander said the intense focus needed for piloting took his mind away from other concerns.

“For me the most important thing is that I have a hobby for which I need to concentrate completely. You have an airplane, passengers and a crew. You carry responsibility for that. You cannot take your problems from the ground with you in the sky. You can for a brief moment disconnect and concentrate on something else. That is the biggest relaxation of flying to me.

KLM Cityhopper plans to retire its fleet of Fokker 70s, the aircraft the king normally co-pilots. He said he planned to begin training on a Boeing 737 to continue flying with KLM.
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Fuming at the Mrs. After hopping to and from Ireland once a month for nearly 2 years with Ryanair I swore id never fly with them again.

She's gone and booked Marrakech with Ryanair, cramped in, horrible coffee and shocking service.
 
samsonthedog1 said:
Fuming at the Mrs. After hopping to and from Ireland once a month for nearly 2 years with Ryanair I swore id never fly with them again.

She's gone and booked Marrakech with Ryanair, cramped in, horrible coffee and shocking service.
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Surprised you're still with her if her coffees that bad.....and the service levels.
 
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Iv'e done a fair bit of flying. But this was my favorite. Flew from Athens to Mykonos, only in the air for 20 minutes or so. The pilot was separated from the passengers by a hessian curtain, and the stewardess gave us all a boiled sweet for hospitality.
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Years ago on an internal flight in France in a mini bus with wings the pilot passed his flask of coffee around to the three of us passengers on there.
 

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