Airplane Flight

I've been flying airplanes because I was born minimum once a year with my parents. Of program as being a passenger, but I have a dream a minimum of once in my life to fly a plane or a helicopter as a pilot. That is a dream of many children born in a Soviet Union and most of them of program had been thrown by the existence far away from this dream, but if I'd manage it once - that would be a dream in my life that came true.

As soon as I've been flying with some East-European airline company from Frankfurt to 1 city in East Europe and there was a time when due to some misunderstandings between that airline business and Frankfurt airport management or something like this - there were no direct flights from Frankfurt to my destination. And I had to take a aircraft to Prague and from Prague - using the airplane of that East-European airline to my destination.

To that moment of time these had been some propeller-driven machines bought already used from some other airlines and those were sometimes apparently old ones. So, my another normal flight, about 20 passengers on board, 1 stewardess, and two pilots. Every thing appears to be alright, I've been flying since my childhood and I'm feeling great, lucky to see my friends in a couple of hours, we drive to the runway, approval for the flight is received, what I can hear through the open door from the pilot cabin. Strange, isn't it? I am not sure concerning the international flight regulations but the the cabin door I think must be closed during the flight.

So we start running along the runway, and after we have climbed about 50 meters, the plane suddenly takes almost vertical position and we begin climbing like a jet warplane. And that is all with the open cabin door and with out panic, as if it was a very normal takeoff. Following I believe 5 seconds of such maneuvers we were climbing usually, just as usual. I took a glance around me to see the reaction from the other passengers on that, but everybody was very calm. The funniest thing was that those 2 stunt-pilots have started the descent the same way. And again everything was appreciated nice and easy by the passengers.

Do you know that the hardest factor in any flight is? It is the landing. To take a aircraft off wouldn't take significantly. Fly the route and make some turns or even some much more complicated maneuvers is also not a fantastic task. But the landing is that very same period exactly where a little mistake can lead to catastrophe. A fantastic pilot, of course if the weather conditions are good and it's daytime, would land a massive airliner or small Cessna so that you barely notice it. But not all pilots can do that. Perhaps, if you had been flying, you've noticed that in some countries, maybe in your also, there is a custom to applause to the pilots following the successful landing. I, as a Soviet-grown one, didn't know about this customized till my first flight to Europe. After some time I've had the opportunity to try out for some hours the Microsoft Flight Simulator, where as told by several specialists, the process of piloting is much more close to the reality than ever. Guess how several landing attempts I've made on the simplest Cessna prior to I managed it without crashing the plane? About a dozen!

Really, one should not be afraid of flying, simply because international statistic tells us that from automobile catastrophes lots of individuals are dying every day and airplane crashes aren't quite a frequent stories. So it is fairly much more safe to fly instead of to drive or use any other land-transport. But if you think of it from another point of view - that if in the air something goes wrong - a chance to survive is quick zero. Because whenever you hear from the news that an airplane is down, you generally listen to the amount of dead passengers and not the percentage of those that survived and those who did not. And when we consider the land-transport, we believe that the catastrophes is going to be recognizable a minimum of some seconds before it happens and you will probably be able to act to get escaped. Of course, it's all of the matter of luck and destiny and one should determine on his own. But surely, those that never flied, ought to certainly try this out.

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