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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 08:06:05 AM
Is it wimpy to admit that I hate, hate, hate to fly? I don't like the feeling, I don't like the sounds and I don't like the close quarters. It's bad enough that I'm afraid of heights, but boy, get me in a plane and I'm begging for valium!! What about you? Anybody else out there a weenie too? :-)
My son took me flying on Sunday. I wrote about the trip and put up pictures at the blog if you want to see what northwestern Oklahoma looks like from the air from a really, really little plane! Not sure I'll be doing it again, but it made him happy and that's what it's all about, right?
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Mary Beth
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 4:31:36 PM
Well, Ohio isn't THAT far!! And I can take you to the Cowboy Hall of Fame and to the Red Earth Native American Festival!! You'll get it all. :-)
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| pnickols |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 4:29:16 PM
and I loved the pictures you took, I remember how awesome the earth looks from 3000 feet how the farmland looks like squares all lined up in shades of browns and greens. how far you can see with a clear sky, I just loved it |
| pnickols |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 4:26:01 PM
seriously Mary Beth I would be down in a heartbeat if I could ! |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 11:59:03 AM
Patricia, well you just need to come down here to Oklahoma and my son will take you up like he did us! He'll even let you fly it! :-) I put pictures up last week at the blog if you are interested.
Mary Beth
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The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| pnickols |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 11:52:49 AM
use to fly a single engine way back before kiddies. loved every minute of it and would love to go and do it again. |
| acairnsmom |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 09:08:28 AM
Oh I forgot to add that I've had dreams since I was a young girl that I witness planes falling out of the sky in front of me! Do you suppose those are where my fear comes from, LOL?
Audrey
Good boy Hobbs! I love and miss you. |
| acairnsmom |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 09:05:53 AM
OMG! Yes, I hate to fly. My stomach does flips if I even think of walking onto a plane! If we can't drive or go by train or some other means of transportation I usually don't go. I would probably make an exception if I were ever to get lucky enough to go to England/Scotland but that is my only travel wish. I get the shudders if I watch a plane in the air. And now that they have so many invasive searches just to get on a plane, FORGET IT! I don't need to go that bad!
Audrey
Good boy Hobbs! I love and miss you. |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 07:44:38 AM
I never have, actually--I was first put on a plane when I was 7, by myself, to go to Chicago to visit relatives. The airline took care of me the whole way and my relatives met me at the gate. I felt so...grown up, I remember :) I love it--love the sound, love take off AND landing--I can get a little bored on an overseas flight. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is sitting on the wing or near the engine--wing, because you can't see, and the engine, because the noise is just too much and I actually get a headache from fumes. When I went to school near Traverse City, the airport only had one gate, and when I came home 4-5 times a year, it was on a prop plane until I transferred at Midway or Detroit and that's when sitting near the engine was just a little much.
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The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| Annika |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 07:36:52 AM
I used to love flying and even flew my own small plane in my younger years, but since 9/11 every blasted time I've been on a plane there has been some major security problem. I was stuck in central California for 22 hours last time due to some one finding a sharp object in a bathroom and then they for unknown reasons, took my lap top and wouldn't give it back until the end of my airport ordeal. I like that they are trying to ensure safety, but I don't like being treated as a possible criminal. If I need to travel, I'll ride a darned horse! I REALLY want to go visit distant relations living in Europe and travel around the Mediterranean but I don't want to go through another plane fiasco =
Annika
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 14 2011 : 06:39:07 AM
Nini, I knew we were kindred sisters! :-) And yes, I do believe that God knows the numbers of my days ever before one of them came to be (Psalm 139) but I can't stand the feeling of dropping when you hit turbulence or looking sideways down at the earth when they bank and in a little plane, it is that much worse!! :-)
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| Ninibini |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 8:53:51 PM
Weelll.... I don't mind flying, per se... It's the idea of the screaming barrel roll as the plane plummets to the earth that really bothers me.
Ever since I was a little girl, every time I've flown there has been a major plane crash, so that really freaks me out.
Ergo I don't fly.
I would fly if I absolutely had to, I suppose, but I'm hoping I never have to. (I wouldn't want to miss out on a trip to, say, Ireland or Israel or France or Greece or Italy, though, so I'm keeping my options open.)
My sister, on the other hand, flies all the time with her job, God bless her, and she loves it - the TSA doesn't even bother her!
I have to say, though, that being above the clouds, seeing all the beautiful landscapes below - those are two of the most breathtaking experiences in the world. There's just nothing like it!
I had heard a televised sermon once in which the priest said it indeed was foolishness and folly to avoid flying. God is in control, and if it's your time, it's your time - you can't avoid the inevitable. My husband's cousin is a retired state trooper and he said that after all the investigations he has performed in accidents of all kinds, he is convinced of the same.
I suppose in the end what really matters is that we understand what our true final destination is, and that we subsequently accept that we are not in control of the when or how, really. It can happen in the blink of an eye no matter how many precautions we take to avoid it...
I'm just not going to be blinking in a blinking airplane when it happens! ;) LOL!
Susan - than you for sharing that poem - it's absolutely beautiful!
Farmgirl Sister #1974
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 7:14:01 PM
I use to, I had to be sedated to fly. But I was in Dallas Texas when 9/11 happened. So I asked GOD to help me and protect me when I had to come back to GA. And I wanted to be alert just in case I was sitting near a person that didnt seem if they were acting right. I still have butterflies in my stomach when the plane takes off. To give you an example my DH and I went to Hong Kong this past April. I did real good.
Deborah
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| SusanScarlet |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 2:42:50 PM
Thanks, Lorraine. I think it's lovely also. It's sort of known as a pilot's poem. It was written by a pilot during WWII. I'll never forget President Reagan reciting it during the memorial for the Challenger astronauts. |
| Tea Lady |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 2:07:40 PM
I love to fly - and had to fly a lot this year for work. I'm not wild about the work part - but flying is fine. I still love to look out the windows (although on big jets I chose aisle seats) and marvel at the landscape below and the clouds all around... Also, I love an adventure and hope to travel more for fun instead of work soon. We've been to England several times and can't wait to go back. I'm not so crazy about boats - never wanted to go on a cruise - although, I like sailboats - its so quiet and peaceful.
Susan - that's a great poem.
Lorraine
(aka Tea Lady)
Farmgirl #1819
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| SusanScarlet |
Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 12:19:47 PM
I'm an old flight attendant. I love to fly. The sounds of taking off and landing sound beautiful to me. Now that I now longer work, when I fly I actually enjoy the time in airports waiting for my flights. It just feels familiar - LOL. I guess it all depends on your life experiences. I've always loved this poem and thought it might calm those of you that struggle when you fly:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 8:17:27 PM
Yeah, Marian, I bet you DO have to travel alot. I would love to go to Europe sometime, but just don't know if I could handle the flight. Bleh. I was thrilled to be able to make my son happy by letting him take us up. It was kinda weird having my son as our pilot!! But it was so good to see him smile so proud. I guess I've done my mom thing for the next several years!! ;-)
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| dutchy |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 12:23:01 PM
I LOVE flying. IŽd better love it because I fly to Thailand every year lol. A 13 plus hr flight. The only drawback is that since I am tall...not enough space for my long legs haha. Been to the USA as well, and also did an flight to another state then. AND to Australia that too almost 36 hrs.
Put me on a plain and I am happy. Been on good flights and bad once...not so funny with the bad ones but hey...it is way more dangerous to drive a car (or ride a bike lol) than to go in a plane
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| Heartbroken farmgirl |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 10:34:36 AM
Oh I HATE to fly!! I hate the airport, even when I'm picking someone up or dropping them off! I am terrified for them. They just got out of, or are on their way up into, the air! Ahhhh!!!! I successfully avoided flying until my 22nd bday. A family member was getting married, and I couldn't get a babysitter for the length of time it would take me to drive to los vagus from sac. My ex-husbands grandmother wouldn't let me miss the wedding, so I was handed a plane ticket. It was only a 52 min flight, but it felt like an eternity. The flight there was fairly uneventful, but home was a nightmare for me. Tons of turbulence, screaming sounds from outside the plane, jerking around, I believe I bruised my SIS-in-laws arm in gripping her for my life!! That was my very last time on a plane.
In two months, I am to fly to Florida with my DH, to get to the port for a cruise. I love the water, I adore cruise ships, I love to travel, and am terrified to fly. It has held up back quite a bit. Id so rather take a train, car, boat, bike, walk... LOL. So I swallowed my fear, and booked the cruise for Feb, as a Christmas present for my DH, and I had to book a flight...God help me!! I'm claustrophobic, afraid of hights, and severely sensitive to medications, so I can't take anything. My poor DH, he may not be all that excited about the trip after our flight to the port!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 09:58:40 AM
I love flying in a privite plane. I don't mind, flying commercial but absolutely refuse to fly anywhere. I think all the search/xrays are unconstutional. Just because you buy an airplane ticket, they do not have the right to search you at the airport anymore than they have a right to come in your house and go through your underware drawer.
Belle |
| njaw09 |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 09:10:32 AM
I don't mind flying. I even rode on a helicopter once. I am afraid of heights though but I can't let the fear overtake me.
I am not afraid of boats (canoe, motorboats, sailboats) also even though I am not a good swimmer.
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 08:05:31 AM
Trish, my point exactly!!!! :-)
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
| edlund33 |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 07:37:43 AM
I don't mind flying, but I have inner ear issues and often have headaches during takeoff and landing or if the air pressure in the cabin changes. And when there is turbulence my head feels like a huge rubber band being stretched and let go. For these reasons I'd much rather drive or take a train, but I love traveling so I've learned to just deal with it to get where I want to go.
I am however, not a water lover. I enjoy canoeing and kayaking, but put me in a bigger boat and I'm not a happy camper. The only big boat trip I have ever truly enjoyed was the Gota Canal ride between Gothenburg and Stockholm in Sweden. Most of the trip is on a canal and except when we were traveling across a lake or through the islands near Stockholm I could jump on and off the boat and walk alongside. I think that freedom is what made it enjoyable for me. Also being able to see the shoreline helps alot. I don't think I could every stand to be cooped up on a cruise ship.
I have a ton of respect for my ancestors who spent 30 days on a ship bobbing across the ocean to get to America! Can you imagine what they might think to know that it is now possible to get there in less than a day?
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
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| goneriding |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 02:47:41 AM
It's the sudden stop when the plane plows into the ground that deters me.
Ships, I'm cool with that. Boats, not so much.
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| FarmDream |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 5:35:44 PM
I'm only nervous when taking off and when landing, but not much. I know how to swim so I'm not afraid of boats. You couldn't get me to skydive unless my life depended on it. I'm also more afraid of dogs than I am of flying.
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| Missus Miranda |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 5:28:58 PM
teehee one_dog! No kidding!! When I was a little girl, my Daddy lived in Africa for a year, and one trip home, a Nigerian Air plane sat on one side of his plane. He watched it for a moment, then looked out the other side. A HUGE crash came from outside and when Daddy looked back, the engine of the Nigerian Air plane had FALLEN OFF!!! 
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