Insane flying

[GravityHater]

Last night just after sunset the chief was taking us to a remote hunt camp strip in the mountains, in the Citation. And he was 'pretty sure' where it was so we cancelled, got below the clouds and started looking around the mountains for it. So there we are, yanking and banking around the hills and its getting darker, and we are way below the tops of the peaks as we get further into these narrower and narrower gorges some of which now have fog developing in the bottom. Khrist! I am getting pizzed! Finally he shouts 'there it is' and I see him looking at this puny hardpacked gravel runway cut into the smallest space between two ridgelines, and he wings us over, gear/flaps/speedbrakes all at once and we make a survivable 'arrival' on what looks like 2500' of something only a supercub was meant to use. Worst thing is, he says 'Huh, this ain't it!', and without stopping, we do a 180 at the end, no checklist - and he spools it up. I set the flaps as we roll and looking ahead see that the runway is uphill and the fog has covered the peaks all around, once we clear the 100' trees we are going to be in it and good god, how are we going to miss the rocks IF we get off this miserable strip and out of the trees overhead.

 

[GravityHater]

Do you guys ever have dreams about flying?

 

[TrafficInSight]

Do you guys ever have dreams about flying?

Yup.

I had a dream that I stole a hawker from the ramp, I managed to get it cranked up and moving and about halfway to the runway I realized that I wasn't typed in it, I'm just a private pilot and not only that it's not a single pilot airplane so there's no way I can ever hope to fly it alone, but on the other hand I can't go back to the ramp because they'll fire me for stealing it!

About that time the alarm clock went off and I was happy again

 

[Ill Mitch]

I have a recurring dream of flying an underpowered (more so than normal) C-152 and I land it in front of the house I grew up in and park it in the driveway. When it is time to go, I takeoff on the street and then I notice a set of powerlines in front of me. I barely clear them when I notice a 2nd set in front and higher than the previous set. This keeps going until I am surrounded by wires all above and below me.

The last dream I had was flying a Grumman Tiger into a thunderstorm and losing control. The last thing I remember was seeing the ground rushing up at me and my wife screaming. I woke up in a cold sweat on that one.

 

[T-REX]

Sounds like a nightmare...I dream of clear skies and 10,000 ft. runways.

 

[A1FlyBoy]

Do you ever go and 'find' NDB stations that you are intimate with?

 

[Donsa320]

I have a recurring dream of flying an underpowered (more so than normal) C-152 and I land it in front of the house I grew up in and park it in the driveway. When it is time to go, I takeoff on the street and then I notice a set of powerlines in front of me. I barely clear them when I notice a 2nd set in front and higher than the previous set. This keeps going until I am surrounded by wires all above and below me.

The last dream I had was flying a Grumman Tiger into a thunderstorm and losing control. The last thing I remember was seeing the ground rushing up at me and my wife screaming. I woke up in a cold sweat on that one.

You just described a variation of the "Wire Dream". I have had it off and on for 50 years plus and in asking around so have many, many other pilots. It really gets to be fun!

Now the Thunderstorm one, I dunno, never had that one. <bg>

~DC

 

[vclean]

You will soon be famous on this site.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm

 

[Donsa320]

Do you guys ever have dreams about flying?

Yep, besides the wire dream and its variations stated elswhere here, many retired guys dream of still being on the line. Being assigned airplanes not qualified in, can't find the gate, can't get into ops because the door code changed and many times I'm all decked out in uniform but barefoot. <g> Also trying to figure out how to tell the company I'm well over 60 and should not be flying anymore...but I have been and I'm in violation.
These are all rather common I found out in conversation with friends.

Another of my favorites is being able to fly by flapping arms. Its hard and I can only get up about 10 feet but it is fun.

~DC

 

[Ill Mitch]

You will soon be famous on this site.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm

I'm already on it.

 

[Ill Mitch]

Yep, besides the wire dream and its variations stated elswhere here, many retired guys dream of still being on the line. Being assigned airplanes not qualified in, can't find the gate, can't get into ops because the door code changed and many times I'm all decked out in uniform but barefoot. <g> Also trying to figure out how to tell the company I'm well over 60 and should not be flying anymore...but I have been and I'm in violation.
These are all rather common I found out in conversation with friends.

Another of my favorites is being able to fly by flapping arms. Its hard and I can only get up about 10 feet but it is fun.

~DC

I've talked to other pilots who had the "Wire Dream" or the "tree dream".

I haven't been able to fly outside of an airplane in dreams, tho.

 

[HMR]

I'm living the dream.

 

[Kream926]

i have this dream where i was flyin a X with all my family, end up inverted over water and get disoreinted and pull up on the stick, see the nose drop hear water then i wake up.......

 

[cforst513]

i have this recurring dream (well, i've had it twice) where i'm holding something in my hand, i cannot remember right now what it is, but i jump and i take off flying. i've flown around my neighborhood at home and the area around my college. it was pretty intense, very real, and i still remember it vividly (save for remembering what the heck was making me fly). quite a weird feeling. i havne't crashed or died... yet.

 

[FN FAL]

I was trying to take a nap on saturday and dozed of for a second...wound up snapping awake after a startling image of leaving a 182 without a parachute flashed inside my head.