Posted May 24, 200915 yr Nay or Yay - Airplane rides. Nay for me. I absolutely hate airplanes so when I go to Europe I will be under my chair in a ball praying for a perfect landing.
May 24, 200915 yr I like it. My first time i was scared LOL but i was only 10. Now that i'm 19, i love the feeling of speed when it takes off. So yeah you just gotta get used to it.
May 24, 200915 yr I have been on a plane about 10 times, only thing I don't like is the pressure change but other than that I have no problem with flying so YAY!
May 24, 200915 yr Dont really love them but I'll do it to travel... leaving on Friday actually to see the Fish/Mets series
May 25, 200915 yr Author Yes I do like flying ...most of the time.. You better, thats what you are going to do the rest of your life.
May 25, 200915 yr Up until late '07, I hadn't been on a plane in 11 years. I thought I would be nervous as hell the whole time, but after a few minutes in the air it was like nothing.
May 25, 200915 yr My first time flying alone, a really creepy old guy talked to me at night. He said something like, "Isn't this fun? This would be a nice time for you to be alone with a guy, huh?". :|
May 25, 200915 yr i don't mind airplanes and flight in general ..... it's commercial flying that stinks - very cramped up experience and not the friendlies of industries however, the trade off of a quick trip definitely offsets it, so Yay for me
May 25, 200915 yr Ive been on a plane ride once to NC and im not to sure how big the plan was but there was a ton of empty seats. I realy enjoyed it. I used to be scared that they would crash but then i thought about all the plane flights daily and all the ones the marlins take every year and they dont crash so i figured my chances of crashing were slim lol.
May 25, 200915 yr I HATE flying... I get very nervous. Every time the plane loses even a little altitude, I think it's going down and going to crash. The last time I flew was in 2003, going to and coming back from Game 3 of the World Series in Miami.
May 25, 200915 yr I don't like it. I'm just not comfortable being 5 miles in the air hurting through the ionosphere at 600 mph. If I can drive there in a day I'd much rather do that - I like to see the rest of the country.
May 25, 200915 yr I don't mind flying. If you want to do any traveling, it's just something that you have to do. The concept of being 35,000 feet in the air in a flying in a metal tube at 600 mph is frightening, but you just have to remember that it is a extremely safe form of transportation. You are more likely to go outside today and get hit by a bus then die in a plane crash. My theory is if it's your time to go, it's your time to go...so you may as well get on the plane, enjoy the flight, and have a great trip.
May 25, 200915 yr I have to fly to LA every six months, so luckily I have no problem with flying. Well, actually the only problem I do have is how boring it can get up there!
May 25, 200915 yr I do understand the fear of flying to a degree, Someone strapped into a tube at 37,000 feet going mach .7 and only the 2 pilots knowing whats really going on. That lack of control for the passenger can be scary. Me being a pilot im a bit biased but driving on the interstate is much much more scary to me. I saw a guy talking on his phone with one hand, eating something with the other and driving with his knees at what I can assume to be 80 miles per hour on the highway the other day. With texting teenagers and drunk drivers behind the wheel on the interstates I take advantage of flying to where I have to go whenever possible.
May 26, 200915 yr I wouldn't say that I enjoy them, but if I wanted to go somewhere, then I'm definitely going to fly. If you're scared, just remember that you're ten times more likely to get into a car crash than a plane crash.
May 26, 200915 yr My theory is if it's your time to go, it's your time to go... What if it's just the pilot's time?
May 26, 200915 yr Flying is ok -- my first flight alone was on a prop plane not unlike the one that crashed in Buffalo a few months back -- that was interesting. But a 15 hour non-stop flight will clear any issues you might have -- it did for me.
May 26, 200915 yr It might be scary at times but it's actually one of the safest ways to travel. People say that as if those who are afraid of flying don't already know it.
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