Just cache it and read it on the plane.....
jonj101 said:
I used to fly Great Mistakes all the time. There was always a fuel, mechanical or weight issue. Plus every pilot looked like they were about 19 years old.
And download copies of some good films about flights like Alive.Bitter Old Man said:
Just cache it and read it on the plane.....
wapa said:
Like everyone else here, I have had some bad ones, but the worst was trying to get out of Berlin. First off, their airport is ***** Tegel served West Germany and it is sketchy for so many reasons. They are suppose to close it when they finally stop screwing up and get the new airport done. Anyhow, it was February and we were suppose to take off for the U.S. around 7am. I get on the plane and fall asleep before take off because I am the a**hole that can do things like that.
I am awoken when my head slams into the seat in front of me. I am obviously crazy startled and I look at the woman next to me and her eyes are as big as saucers. Then the flight attendants go running up and down the aisles telling everyone to remain calm. People start yelling the plane is on fire on the opposite side of the plane from me. Then the Berlin fire crew surrounds our plane. The pilot gets on the intercom and says in a really shaky voice that we hit something on take off. Pilot, pull yourself together man! Basically, he stopped the plan right before the end of the runway, where the little fences are.
They get us all off the plane and put us in a outbuilding that is not heated, in February, in Berlin. They feed us rice cakes and water. We are there for a couple of hours. Oh, except for James Franco and Shia LaBeouf who were on our plane and escorted to somewhere more comfortable. After that, I spent the next 12 hours trying to get out of that **** hole. Due to terrible luck, I was the last person who was helped in rebooking their flight. I had to stay another night in Berlin, then to Frankfurt, then to Houston and my last flight to College Station made it over CS and we had to turn back because of landing gear problems. That's when I finally lost my cool and yelled "noooooo!!!"
No, didn't mean to give that impression.. but in the airline industry in various capaciites so flew a ton. My mom was a flight attendant and blew an engine on takeoff once. That had to have been scary, got about 5 miles ouf of PIE before turning around for an EL in Tampa. She also had a flight where the emergency slide was activated accidentally when they were on the ground.CanyonAg77 said:
From your reply, are you saying you and your family were the pilots?
Speaking of odd noises from below, what the hell is that God awful sound that Airbus 319's and 320's make when backing away from the gate and once you've stopped at the gate?V8Aggie said:
On our way back from Sydney to San Francisco (19 hour flight) via United, I started hearing strange noises coming from below. It continued happening for a while and other passengers started hearing it. Definitely was mechanical but didn't think much of it. As far as I knew something was just cycling every so often. We informed the flight attendant and the damn pilot came back and sat with us for a couple of hours to monitor it. He was fun to shoot the **** with and he had a feeling it was some sort of hydraulic problem but he wasn't able to really tell. He didn't seem worried so neither was I.
Landed safely and we made our next flight.
I come from a family that has multiple private pilots and at one time my dad owned a plane. We were on a commercial flight coming in with a heavy crosswind and the pilot performed a proper cross-control landing. It's astounding how many people were *****ing about the pilot saying he didn't know what he was doing.CanyonAg77 said:
Which is exactly how you land in a crosswind.
The United 757 with Rolls Royce engines seem to get some funny/concerning looks at full trust during takeoff and the initial climb out. Kind of sounds like they are about to "throw a rod" in layman's auto-speak.Pahdz said:Speaking of odd noises from below, what the hell is that God awful sound that Airbus 319's and 320's make when backing away from the gate and once you've stopped at the gate?V8Aggie said:
On our way back from Sydney to San Francisco (19 hour flight) via United, I started hearing strange noises coming from below. It continued happening for a while and other passengers started hearing it. Definitely was mechanical but didn't think much of it. As far as I knew something was just cycling every so often. We informed the flight attendant and the damn pilot came back and sat with us for a couple of hours to monitor it. He was fun to shoot the **** with and he had a feeling it was some sort of hydraulic problem but he wasn't able to really tell. He didn't seem worried so neither was I.
Landed safely and we made our next flight.