Jeff Stahler for December 30, 2014

You couldn’t pay me to fly there, or here at home for that matter.

I will never understand why people won’t fly because of the “danger” when air travel is something like ten times safer compared to getting in their car and driving themselves somewhere. I guess it is a control thing. They really want to feel they are in control up to the second they kill themselves.

……or fear of heights….

kea; talk to Sullenberger who did a river landing(ditching) with total success.

Having experience, multiple, with aircraft that stopped functioning as such, you can survive rather dramatic cases of same. Come apart at 32,000 feet however? Not so good, or survivable.

You mean …in a plane, right ?

The best reason for not flying is the smaller and smaller space that the airlines are cramming us into. They’re reducing leg room again and my 6 foot 3 inches body is telling me to give up flying.

I’m with JDave. I’m a small person (5 feet) and I’m so uncomfortable in an airplane. I don’t even want to think about what it must be like for larger people.

Bueller: if that was for me, six times in helicopters (assistance from our friend “Charles”) and one fixed wing. In the fixed wing, lost the engine at the top of a loop, and dead sticked onto a runway, no damage other than “laundry”…

dtroutma , glad your around today to tell thetale. Law of averages for all that suggeststhe patron saint of aviators was paying attention!