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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
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| Then there's the time I fell asleep whilst we were still on the tarmac at Helsinki and didn't wake up until we touched down at Heathrow. Aah, (lack of) memories. |
Those are the very best flights of all! I've never had a big hairy fear of flying, but once I managed (trying subconsciously?) to fall asleep before lift-off and awaken just in time to hear the captain tell us to fasten our seatbelts for landing. I slept straight through two meals and the inflight movies. It was the best flight ever! Now I consciously try to repeat it every time I fly. Again, I'm not afraid of flying. I just consider it an infernal waste of my time. |
Being able to sleep on a plane is a gift. A gift. |
Yes, I have that gift: it is given to me by Valium and Melatonin. 
Bad flight tales? A few over 30 odd years, but as I am still here, nothing that bad. Merely boring ... fog over Lisbon, ice at Leningrad, God knows what at Maiduguri, crosswinds at Norwich, Arab children in Y class their parents in C class, engine failure crossing the Alps, emergency landing on foam at Paris Orly from Algiers, blah blah blah ...
My nephew is a pilot with British Airways (FO airbus) and he tells me some fine tales - not about BA, you understand. But it seems that the ATC at Frankfurt are brusque and expect all pilots to know exactly their way around the airport.
One time a BA flight was instructed to go to gate 23 A (or whatever) but was given no route from the runway. So he stopped on the taxiway to consult his airport map. ATC remonstrated with him asking had he never been to Frankfurt before?
He answered, "Yes, once, but it was dark and we did not stop". |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
Being able to sleep on a plane is a gift. A gift. |
Yes, I have that gift: it is given to me by Valium and Melatonin. |
My father once gave me some sort of knockout pills because I didn't sleep much the night before a long flight, and because I usually can't fall asleep on a plane. Well, that was an experience I pray never to relive. Hard to describe just how horrible I felt, mind and body aching to sleep, repositioning the seat, my feet, the pillows, the blanket... The angle of the seat just a wee bit too limited, the drone of the engines just a decibel too high... Nothing worked, the pills didn't work, the dosage insufficient or just wrong.   It was nothing short of maddening torture the whole FUCKING sleep-deprived journey long. Doing everything to get to sleep, closing my eyes, remaining motionless for hours, yet constantly aware every hellish minute of the way that I was trying to sleep... and never actually succeeding. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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flew korean air about 8 years ago..
on take off the pilot pulled up to fast he smacked the back of the tail on the runway when the plane went up.. I dont think anyone else noticed.
but I did as I have been flying since I was 8 alone the koreans didnt react
I spoke about it to a pilot in seoulpub once and he said. ohh yeah we heard about that,., DAMN!!..
on a good point..
just flew to thailand from london 2 weeks ago.. and the whole plane was full I mean PACKED! except the back row where I was sitting.. the lady in front of me was thinking she was gonna score the back row. I come in flashed my ticket she was pissed.. and I stretched out and laid down and slept for the 11 hour flight.. people going to the bathroom were giving me the evils bigtime!! hahahahaha
some kids came and stole my pillows.. the cheecky one even came around behind me and stole my second one from behind my head..hahahahhah she thought she was all clever doing it real slowly
I let them have it.. considing I had 4 seats to myself.. the girl in front of me looked over many times at me during the flight to give me the evils
hahahahahaha
I mean HEY!! luck of the draw right..
ive seen many people lucky before.. example flying to london there were 4 rows in the middle with only one person in them..
so it was my turn!!!
never been bumped to business or first class tho...
that would be cool.. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Not really flying stories but..
I got bumped to business once, packed plane going home for Christmas, I checked in late and got lucky. So sweet, I was trying to play it cool like turning left was an everyday occurrence for me, but couldn't stop grinning like a Cheshire *beep*.
My company used to pay standard wages for any time you spent travelling- and during that time I was trying to fly back from Toronto to Manchester but the flight was cancelled. Still clocking my hourly rate I went back to the hotel provided by the airline, ate a nice dinner, slept, woke up, and was then basically paid to spend most of the day around Yonge Street. |
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