Brian425 0 #1 July 17, 2006 I heard about a skydiver with about 1,000 jumps. He had never been in a plane that landed. From what I heard, he was a little nervous coming in to land. The only time you should look down on someone is when you are offering them your hand. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #2 July 17, 2006 I've flown commercial, but I'm not a fan of it. I also have a dear friend who is terrified of flying, they have almost 100 jumps thoughYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlyinseivLP2 0 #3 July 17, 2006 I hate to fly. I have flown commercial but still don't like it. I have almost 3,000 skydives and one of the scariest experiences happened landing on one of the 4 or 5 loads I have rode the plane down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
selbbub78 0 #4 July 17, 2006 I absolutly HATE landing in Planes. Scares the heck out of me. I never felt that way until after I started jumping. Of course, I still do it, but I seriouslly wish I could just jump out instead! CReW Skies,"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone "The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote) "The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #5 July 17, 2006 I used to jump at Skydive the Point in Virginia. like many dropzones, it is out in East Bumfuck. You'd be surprised how many tandems they got for whom it was the first time riding in ANY type of plane. Them hillbillies don't get out of the country much. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matt1215 0 #6 July 17, 2006 I hate landing with planes. I have trouble getting on a plane without a few drinks. I took 2 Ambien last year on my 12-hour flight back to the US from Korea, washed them down with some wine. I remember eating dinner 30 minutes into the flight and the stewardess rousting me at the gate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Bolas 5 #7 July 17, 2006 Having your first plan ride be a skydive is kinda cool. Anytime I'm on a plane with one of these people I tell them they ought to tell their friends they went for a plane ride this weekend but weren't impressed so halfway through they "left." Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PLFKING 3 #8 July 17, 2006 QuoteYou'd be surprised how many tandems they got for whom it was the first time riding in ANY type of plane. That never ceases to amaze and fascinate me. Never been on a plane, but they're going to climb in this rickety old bathtub-sized 182, climb about 2 miles up, then bomb out. Big brass ones. Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tbrown 26 #9 July 17, 2006 QuoteI absolutly HATE landing in Planes. Scares the heck out of me. I never felt that way until after I started jumping. Of course, I still do it, but I seriouslly wish I could just jump out instead! I understand completely. But I also used to work for Boeing as a Final Assembly Inspector and I can honestly tell you that the things are built and overbuilt and can take just about anything that can possibly happen to them. Which doesn't quite add up to a 100%, but is still safer than skydiving (something I don't concede easily either). What you don't like is trusting somebody other than yourself to fly the final approach leg. And like I said, I understand that feeling completely. But you really got nothing to worry about, it's safer than sitting home watching porn on your TV. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites weegegirl 2 #10 July 17, 2006 1300ish jumps, 4.5 hours "logged" toward a pilot license, and planes still scare the crap out of me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bloody_trauma 2 #11 July 17, 2006 182's make me feel kinda vulnerable, its such a tiny plane you feel cramped and all you want to do is gt out of the plane and quick, every little bit of turbulance is magnified. I cant sleep on planes, i took ambien once before a flight to kuwait and i just zombied out until we landed, i had never flown in an airplane until i joined the military and now thats the only way ill travel long distance, but no planes dont scare me, but they do make me nervous ___________________________________________________________________________Fly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pincheck 0 #12 July 17, 2006 I find i get sleepy on flights, since i started jumping Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MikeJD 0 #13 July 17, 2006 Don't mind commercial flights, but not keen on landing in jumpships. I'm always thinking it's a pretty rare experience for the pilot, having all that additional weight in the back. If I'm flying long-haul I try not to think about being over large bodies of water (like the Atlantic). The thought of a forced landing in the ocean... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites base283 0 #14 July 17, 2006 I had 30 takeoffs/jumps before my first landing in a plane. It was an engine out in a Twin Beech at 1400 agl. I was kinda scared. Got religion and all that crap. Take care, space Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PRSKY71 0 #15 July 17, 2006 I am absolutely TERRIFIED of flying. I have had one panic attack (about 4 years ago) in a commercial plane and have to tell you it is horrible. For my tandem, surprisingly enough, I was absolutely cool, looking out the windows and all. My level 1 was pretty bad with me holding on to the sides of the plane and my instructor kept tapping my hand to relax -- yikes, that was bad!! And the last time I flew, for my level 2, the flight was great. I was really excited, looking out the window and spotting and all! Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kallend 1,662 #16 July 17, 2006 I hate flying commercial - all that waiting around at the gate, having to remove my shoes when dealing with TSA, sitting next to 350lb strangers whose fat overhangs my seat, waiting for my luggage at the carousel... Good job I have my own plane... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites masterrig 1 #17 July 17, 2006 I hate to fly! It's not so bad if, Im in the jump plane with a parachute on but commercial flights keep me nerved-up. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites riddler 0 #18 July 17, 2006 I used to like flying a lot, but after skydiving for a few years, I really don't like turbulence anymore (used to like it), and I hate landing. I'd rather land my canopy any day. Landing in a fully loaded jump-plane is one of my scariest experiences at the DZ.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites psipike02 0 #19 July 17, 2006 [reply But you really got nothing to worry about, it's safer than sitting home watching porn on your TV. Now i've never heard of anyone comparing it to watching porn on tv....Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707---- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #7 July 17, 2006 Having your first plan ride be a skydive is kinda cool. Anytime I'm on a plane with one of these people I tell them they ought to tell their friends they went for a plane ride this weekend but weren't impressed so halfway through they "left." Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 3 #8 July 17, 2006 QuoteYou'd be surprised how many tandems they got for whom it was the first time riding in ANY type of plane. That never ceases to amaze and fascinate me. Never been on a plane, but they're going to climb in this rickety old bathtub-sized 182, climb about 2 miles up, then bomb out. Big brass ones. Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbrown 26 #9 July 17, 2006 QuoteI absolutly HATE landing in Planes. Scares the heck out of me. I never felt that way until after I started jumping. Of course, I still do it, but I seriouslly wish I could just jump out instead! I understand completely. But I also used to work for Boeing as a Final Assembly Inspector and I can honestly tell you that the things are built and overbuilt and can take just about anything that can possibly happen to them. Which doesn't quite add up to a 100%, but is still safer than skydiving (something I don't concede easily either). What you don't like is trusting somebody other than yourself to fly the final approach leg. And like I said, I understand that feeling completely. But you really got nothing to worry about, it's safer than sitting home watching porn on your TV. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weegegirl 2 #10 July 17, 2006 1300ish jumps, 4.5 hours "logged" toward a pilot license, and planes still scare the crap out of me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bloody_trauma 2 #11 July 17, 2006 182's make me feel kinda vulnerable, its such a tiny plane you feel cramped and all you want to do is gt out of the plane and quick, every little bit of turbulance is magnified. I cant sleep on planes, i took ambien once before a flight to kuwait and i just zombied out until we landed, i had never flown in an airplane until i joined the military and now thats the only way ill travel long distance, but no planes dont scare me, but they do make me nervous ___________________________________________________________________________Fly it like you stole it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pincheck 0 #12 July 17, 2006 I find i get sleepy on flights, since i started jumping Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #13 July 17, 2006 Don't mind commercial flights, but not keen on landing in jumpships. I'm always thinking it's a pretty rare experience for the pilot, having all that additional weight in the back. If I'm flying long-haul I try not to think about being over large bodies of water (like the Atlantic). The thought of a forced landing in the ocean... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base283 0 #14 July 17, 2006 I had 30 takeoffs/jumps before my first landing in a plane. It was an engine out in a Twin Beech at 1400 agl. I was kinda scared. Got religion and all that crap. Take care, space Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PRSKY71 0 #15 July 17, 2006 I am absolutely TERRIFIED of flying. I have had one panic attack (about 4 years ago) in a commercial plane and have to tell you it is horrible. For my tandem, surprisingly enough, I was absolutely cool, looking out the windows and all. My level 1 was pretty bad with me holding on to the sides of the plane and my instructor kept tapping my hand to relax -- yikes, that was bad!! And the last time I flew, for my level 2, the flight was great. I was really excited, looking out the window and spotting and all! Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 1,662 #16 July 17, 2006 I hate flying commercial - all that waiting around at the gate, having to remove my shoes when dealing with TSA, sitting next to 350lb strangers whose fat overhangs my seat, waiting for my luggage at the carousel... Good job I have my own plane... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #17 July 17, 2006 I hate to fly! It's not so bad if, Im in the jump plane with a parachute on but commercial flights keep me nerved-up. Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #18 July 17, 2006 I used to like flying a lot, but after skydiving for a few years, I really don't like turbulence anymore (used to like it), and I hate landing. I'd rather land my canopy any day. Landing in a fully loaded jump-plane is one of my scariest experiences at the DZ.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
psipike02 0 #19 July 17, 2006 [reply But you really got nothing to worry about, it's safer than sitting home watching porn on your TV. Now i've never heard of anyone comparing it to watching porn on tv....Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707---- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian425 0 #20 July 17, 2006 It depends on what your wife is like. The only time you should look down on someone is when you are offering them your hand. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpinfarmer 0 #21 July 18, 2006 187 jumps and no landings yet I hope to keep it that way as well. I guess I'm just one of thouse Hill-billys that was mentioned before. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #22 July 18, 2006 I like flying ( being a passenger) and though I am not afriad of the landings, its my least fav. part. notfor any reason that you may think. when I land in a plane that means I am on vacation ( orcoming home) and I wanna Get the fuck out of the plane and go see everyone( or go home unpack and relax) I hate the taxiing part where you cant stand up and the felling of "i'm here but not really" So close yet so far away. just let me out. I'm excited about my vaca. or excited about getting back to my lifeMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johnsisland 0 #23 July 18, 2006 I really don't like little planes's. My uncle was a capt. for a major airline, and flew little ones for fun. All I can remember is he crashed the little one's three or four times that I know about. His last crash screwed up his ankle, and he didn't get his medical after that. He started out as a mechanic, and became a capt. Did all the work on his own planes, and looking back, I am betting his planes should not have been in the air. My Dad talks about gauges hanging from the dash in his Cessna, the one time he rode with him. Maybe that's why I like the Otter more than the Cessna? Have to think my reasoning isn't the best, I tend to trust my DZ's maintenace. But I never said my reasoning, in this matter, makes sense. JArch? I can arch just fine with my back to the ground. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildfan75 1 #24 July 18, 2006 I am absolutely terrified of flying, commercial or the 182's we jump at my dz. I can handle the 182's because of the fact that I don't have to land in them...except one time. Friday Night, Me (still a student) to everyone at the dz: "You will never, ever, never, ever see me land in the plane. Ever!" Saturday Morning: I have to land with the plane as the winds picked up while we were in the air. Which probably wouldn't have been so bad but we started to split one of the tires on take off and it was really windy so we were getting thrown around. Luckily I didn't know about the tire until we landed and were at the hanger, otherwise, I would have probably full out hypervenilated, rather than the mild hypervenilation that I experienced. Lesson: Never say never, ever, never, ever! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
