IndiraLightfoot Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 British NATS have just made a video that shows one day of flying in Europe last summer, and holy cow! Obviously, we fly a lot, and that means a massive amount of planes in the air at any given time. Given that planes almost crash once in a blue moon, I must say flying feels a bit safer now. Just watch the video in the NATS blog that I link here (I didn't know how to embed it here). It's beautiful and mind-blowing! http://nats.aero/blog/2014/03/europe-24-air-traffic-data-visualisation/ 7 *** "The words of someone who feels ever more the ent among saplings when playing CRPGs" *** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I haven't been on a plane in at least 10 years. Not because I'm afraid of flying (which I'm not), mind you. 1 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 This reminds me of an old joke I heard: Muhammad Ali the famous pugilist was relaxing on a flight to Britain when the stewardess asked him to buckle up his seat belt, the boxer flirtily replied. "Superman don't need no seat belt!" The stewardess smiled, leaned in and whispered. "Superman don't need no plane!" As Superman said it's still one of the safer methods of travelling, unless ones pilots are called Mr Oveur, Unger and Dunn. 2 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I enjoy flying and I've never had a significant concern about it. I just don't like being stuffed into a winged sardine can. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 (edited) I'm nervous because IF an accident happens chances are almost 100% that I'll ( along with the 200 other passengers) get blown to bits, burned, frozen, squished, suffocated and drowned. And it does not take much to make a plane crash, a decade ago a slightly damaged wire ignited the fuel tank of a plane and booooom. If the wiring of the car is screwed up and the engine starts to burn you can stop and leave the car. Cars may crash more often but the survival rate is much MUCH higher and I feel safer in a wheeled vehicle. Also, I can control the car myself and do not have to put my life in the hands of some random dude I never met before, someone who might be an incompetent drunk idiot. Its a flying highly explosive tin can with seats. You cant exit it, there is no brakes and if something goes wrong, something as little as a damaged cable you going to have the worst day ever. Your last day. Edited March 14, 2014 by Woldan 3 I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManifestedISO Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Heh, the few moments of abundant acceleration, speed, and power make up for any risks, I tell myself. Just once, once, in a lifetime I want to experience how hard a jet fighter could press me into the seat. Stupid news anchors and their stupid invitations from the Blue Angels ... *I* deserve to fly with the gods, not them. 2 All Stop. On Screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Protagonist Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I love flying. I can't get enough of it. Also, catch up on watching the movies or take a good book to read and before you know it, you're at your destination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I hate it like poison. I have nothing against the plane or the actual act of flying. It's the airports, crowds, delays, aggravations. It seems nearly every airport is staffed with people who should be in a locked room eating crayons somewhere. And the only thing worse is your fellow passengers. What ever etiquette people have obviously got checked with their luggage. No wonder the flight attendants are so grouchy. When the plane lands I get to get off and walk away, all they have to look forward to is another flight and a plane full of fools. If it's at all possible I'd rather drive. Just my $.02. 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) I used to like flying, then we got the TSA, and now I fly a small fraction of what I used to. Edited March 15, 2014 by Valsuelm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Don't mind the act of flying myself, but I hate the whole airport business and ticketing schemes. Air travel should be no more complicated than train travel: rock up to the station, buy a ticket to X destination from the booth, then when the next plane arrives, take all your stuff in and relax. 2 L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 So when I flew to Chicago earlier this week it was awesome because I was able to leave everything on and all my electronics in my bags. The flight back, not so much. 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Don't mind the act of flying myself, but I hate the whole airport business and ticketing schemes. Air travel should be no more complicated than train travel: rock up to the station, buy a ticket to X destination from the booth, then when the next plane arrives, take all your stuff in and relax. It used to be that way... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Most aircraft we fly don't have to worry about trapping on a carrier: 2 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) Don't mind the act of flying myself, but I hate the whole airport business and ticketing schemes. Air travel should be no more complicated than train travel: rock up to the station, buy a ticket to X destination from the booth, then when the next plane arrives, take all your stuff in and relax. I love airports. They're like tangled knots in the skein of life. Edited March 15, 2014 by Walsingham "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Protagonist Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) My partner and I must be one of the very few people that have never had any problems or dramas with flying, other passengers and airports over the last 20 years. Also the online booking, pick your seats, print your ticket is so much easier now for domestic flights. It's great to just walk through without having to do anything. Similar with overseas travel and when checking in, it's never been a problem for us. Edited March 18, 2014 by Hiro Protagonist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryy Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 I live right next to SFO. The pure volume of planes constantly going in and out puts things in perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I hate flying. Probably because I've done it so much the last 15 years, that I know the inside of major airports better than the inner city roads. I don't worry about crashing. Been in some close calls, including near misses between 737's with somebody parked on the runway we were seconds about setting down on (you would have to see it to believe it, how impressive evasive maneuvers a 737 can do at an altitude where the wingtip is almost touching the grass on the apron) and turbulence so bad that I worried about that *snap* sound from my neck might have been a "whiplash". No, what really brings out the cold sweat is the thought of being cooped up for hours in a small cabin with peoples screaming brats, that wont keep quiet, wont keep their ****ing knees out of my back and has to consistently stand up and jump in their seats because of the obvious lack of on board trampolines. *That's* why I hate flying. If/when they introduce child free flights, especially long haul flights, I might actually enjoy the services of airlines again. 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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