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I've only ever flown internationally so I've always had a proper meal on a plane even though I was like a couple years old when they phased that out. How do you handle of <10 minute flight? You just sat down and they are already kicking you out? How do you drink enough to be drunk when you exit the plane? I've only ever flown domestically so I've never even had a proper meal on a plane since I was like a couple of years old and they phased that out. How do you handle 10 hr+ flights? Doesn't your rear end really hurt eventually? I would probably try to get a xanax hookup so I could sleep the whole time.
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it's a bit up and down, really
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Sep 18, 2024 07:07
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Sometimes I fly harbour air to go to Vancouver Island in 30 minutes instead of taking a 4 hour drive and ferry. It makes me feel like a baller
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Sep 18, 2024 07:09
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Mantle posted:Sometimes I fly harbour air to go to Vancouver Island in 30 minutes instead of taking a 4 hour drive and ferry. It makes me feel like a baller Just last week I flew from Calgary to Edmonton and back. Flights were free but they were on Dash 8s so not the most comfortable even with a flight time of 40 mins
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Sep 18, 2024 07:14
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Great at first then really bad.
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Sep 18, 2024 07:16
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The shortest plane rides I've taken were about 30 minutes. Tiny planes, too; not enough interior space to stand upright, you either had to stoop low or shuffle around on your knees, and even that small space was packed full of people and their stuff. Miserable, stressful plane ride. Full disclosure: when I got off of that plane, it and I were still 12,000 feet off the ground.
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Sep 18, 2024 07:17
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IMJack posted:Full disclosure: when I got off of that plane, it and I were still 12,000 feet off the ground. I hate it when the pilot is bad at parking.
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Sep 18, 2024 07:32
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e: nvm
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Sep 18, 2024 07:48
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it's g
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Sep 18, 2024 08:36
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Exactly the same amount of airport and TSA bullshit but without complimentary booze and time for a snooze so you find yourself at destination airport without time to rest on the way.
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frumpykvetchbot posted:Exactly the same amount of airport and TSA bullshit but without complimentary booze and time for a snooze so you find yourself at destination airport without time to rest on the way. I think my shortest flight in Norway was to and from Volda on the west coast, in a small propeller plane. The departure hall was a room with a few benches and a water dispenser, like a dentist's office. There was a doorway in through an office where a single security guard was sitting, and when it was time to board he perfunctory glanced at our boarding cards before waving us through to the tarmac. I got asked to move to another seat to balance the plane. The other short flight experience was with SAS from Oslo to Kristiansand. They wanted to at least serve us some coffee, so they jogged through with it while we were still ascending, and again to collect the cups as we were descending shortly afterwards. I think I barely managed to finish my cup.
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Sep 18, 2024 09:51
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I flew to Shetland once. The departure area was a big portacabin with two external doors labelled "gate 1" and "gate 2". I don't know why. You open either one and the plane's right there.
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Sep 18, 2024 09:58
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You don't actually get in the plane they just tape you to the outside of it and you hold your breath cause you're only in the air for 10 seconds and when you land kids swat you off like pinatas for their birthday
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Sep 18, 2024 10:05
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My best friend did his first solo flight in an ultralight and ripped the wings off at 2000 feet attempting a stall. He impacted the ground. That was a short flight... Dunno what it was like. A bit scary perhaps. It's a long way up. I visit his grave every now and then. All cool.
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Sep 18, 2024 10:24
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https://youtu.be/pizP-00lVLM?si=mxrZKTenD_puR1KB
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Sep 18, 2024 10:29
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Blow posted:My best friend did his first solo flight in an ultralight and ripped the wings off at 2000 feet attempting a stall. Wtf
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Sep 18, 2024 10:34
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Ultralight Trike.  He'd done all the flying lessons with an instructor. 2 people in the aircraft. So when he did the solo flight, the aircraft was a lot lighter and more responsive. He spoke to me the night before and said he intended to pull some unusual attitude . So instead of stalling at like 90ｰ he went to 180ｰ. Now aircraft upside down. A weight-shift aircraft acts like a pendulum. Stalls. Upside-down. Zero airspeed. Falls. Pulls back on the control (should have pushed forward). Now we got negative G. Pendulum takes over. Wings ripped off. He wasn't that hosed up. Open casket. 
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Sep 18, 2024 11:00
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I didn't know what an ultralite was, that is very sad. I'm sorry for your loss bud.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I didn't know what an ultralite was, that is very sad. I'm sorry for your loss bud. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.
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Blow posted:My best friend did his first solo flight in an ultralight and ripped the wings off at 2000 feet attempting a stall. I did some flights with a friend in a C170 and those were quite a bit longer and ended with wheels on the ground. Pretty uneventful though he did have an oil pressure scare on a flight without me. Shortest commercial flight was probably about an hour, still enough time for cabin crew to bring out the drinks otherwise everything as usual.
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Sep 18, 2024 11:33
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It's ok
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* Considering air resistance on a typical summer day in Sydney, it would take about 20.34 seconds to fall from 2,000 feet (610 meters). This calculation assumes the trike and pilot would quickly reach terminal velocity due to drag, and then continue falling at that speed for the remainder of the descent.
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Sep 18, 2024 11:34
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Shortest flight I took was Portland -> Seattle, I think 45 min? That snack cart barrels down the aisle, lol.
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Sep 18, 2024 13:19
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You go from threatening posture to making GBS threads pants immediately
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Sep 18, 2024 13:56
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Only commercial flights, my least was around 45 minutes to get to a bigger hub thanks to my small town location. Average is around 90 minutes. I always get irrationally upset at drink/meal carts for small flights. It seems like such a waste of time for the crew especially in this day and age where everyone who needs their Starbucks milkshakes boards with them anyway. And on a small flight, you're probably in an aisle seat so you have to be awake enough to sift when the cart comes past you. And be able to say "no thanks". But I get it...the moment they stop doing it, there will be a national outrage in America on the order of 911.
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Sep 18, 2024 14:03
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I was on this tiny plane for a flight from Boston to NYC and the stewardess asked a few of us to change seats to even out the weight load, and I was like "Hmmm".
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Sep 18, 2024 14:03
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Aesop Poprock posted:You don't actually get in the plane they just tape you to the outside of it and you hold your breath cause you're only in the air for 10 seconds and when you land kids swat you off like pinatas for their birthday So you actually get on the plane then? Nice.
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Sep 18, 2024 23:54
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I flew from Atlanta to Huntsville once, and taking into consideration the hassle of security, loading/unloading the plane, it would have been almost as fast to just take an uber
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Sep 19, 2024 00:15
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stressful ive only done it thrice but stressful all 3 times
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Sep 19, 2024 01:32
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I want to eventually take the seaplane to the Bahamas like I知 motherfucking Calderon from the first episode of Miami Vice.
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Oh I forgot the best part about my short flights are they are in floatplanes where the pilot lets me sit in the copilot seat
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Blow posted:Ultralight Trike. I have twice flown to Philadelphia, once from Canada. It loving rules flying into that place.
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Have you ever jumped, OP? It's like that, but maybe a little longer.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I have twice flown to Philadelphia, once from Canada. It loving rules flying into that place. philly airport fuckin blows especially terminal E naturally you like it
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i love to stink up a short flight with rancid farts for the next passengers 
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I got re routed to a flight from Chicago to madison wisconsin we were at crusing altitude for 15 min. Considering total time spent, it would've been faster to drive.
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I was on an island hopping flight in the Pacific. You could SEE where we were flying to. The pilot kept his window open It was actually somewhat scary for a number of reasons
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I fly lots of flights between the Hawaiian islands and they're all like 30 minutes or less. The shortest one is Maui to Kona and depending on which way you take off and land you're in the air for less than 15 minutes. they're so short I'd normally advocate for driving but, you know, the water. Also, Hawaii doesn't have any kind of passenger ferry service which really blows if you think about it
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I致e flown on maybe 200 flights of 45 minutes or less. Mostly around California and Nevada, 737s mostly. On the longer of these you get about 10 minutes at cruising altitude before they start the descent. That痴 enough for one drink order and a snack bag. A 30 minute flight typically doesn稚 have time for that. Not that it matters. These flights are like taking the bus. Get on the plane 5 minutes before they close the doors, carryon only, take whatever seat, it doesn稚 matter, read a book (we didn稚 have iPhones back then), keep reading until the idiots on the plane manage to get themselves unloaded, then walk off like it痴 nothing. Long flights, on the other hand, are hell. I致e done maybe 40 flights of 12 hours or more. Each extra hour past 10 is like 50% more painful than the last. Avoid caffeine. Pack a sandwich and snacks in your carryon. Never take a flight with a layover, I don稚 care how good of a deal it is, if you can avoid it when flying more than 10 hours direct.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I have twice flown to Philadelphia, once from Canada. It loving rules flying into that place. Did you quote the wrong post dude?
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