Holy cow! On a flight from Allentown to Punta Gorde, Florida, I was seated to a very nice,but very nervous, woman... maybe mid thirties. About 20 minutes into the flight, he leaned over and said "This is my first time flying and I'm so nervous!" Me and my big mouth says taking off is easy, flying is even easier, but landing... that can be a problem. Wouldn't you know the pilot slammed us into the tarmac and the whole plan erupted quite loudly in unison "OOOOOOOOO!!!" This was one of those smaller commuter jets that you could see the pilots, so he sure heard us... haven't flown since!!!
On our flight the plane tires screamed as they skidded about 20 feet because of hard braking during landing. Then we made a rather high speed hard turn at the end of the runway. I kidded a bit with two pilots seeing people off the plane by commenting, "bit of a short runway, eh?"
They appeared stoic but possibly annoyed within. Oops, I guess I shouldn't have said that.
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Holy cow! On a flight from Allentown to Punta Gorde, Florida, I was seated to a very nice,but very nervous, woman... maybe mid thirties. About 20 minutes into the flight, he leaned over and said "This is my first time flying and I'm so nervous!" Me and my big mouth says taking off is easy, flying is even easier, but landing... that can be a problem. Wouldn't you know the pilot slammed us into the tarmac and the whole plan erupted quite loudly in unison "OOOOOOOOO!!!" This was one of those smaller commuter jets that you could see the pilots, so he sure heard us... haven't flown since!!!
ReplyDeleteOn our flight the plane tires screamed as they skidded about 20 feet because of hard braking during landing. Then we made a rather high speed hard turn at the end of the runway. I kidded a bit with two pilots seeing people off the plane by commenting, "bit of a short runway, eh?"
DeleteThey appeared stoic but possibly annoyed within. Oops, I guess I shouldn't have said that.