| I've been flying airplanes since I was born minimum | | | | nice and easy by the passengers. |
| once a year with my parents. Of course as a | | | | Do you know that the hardest thing in any flight is? It is |
| passenger, but I have a dream at least once in my life | | | | the landing. To take a plane off wouldn't take much. Fly |
| to fly a plane or a helicopter as a pilot. That is a dream | | | | the route and make some turns or even some more |
| of many children born in a Soviet Union and most of | | | | complicated maneuvers is also not a great task. But |
| them of course were thrown by the life far away | | | | the landing is that very same period where a small |
| from this dream, but if I'd manage it once - that would | | | | mistake can lead to catastrophe. A great pilot, of |
| be a dream in my life that came true. | | | | course if the weather conditions are good and it is |
| Once I've been flying with some East-European airline | | | | daytime, would land a huge airliner or small Cessna so |
| company from Frankfurt to one city in East Europe | | | | that you barely notice it. But not all pilots can do that. |
| and there was a time when due to some | | | | Maybe, if you were flying, you have noticed that in |
| misunderstandings between that airline company and | | | | some countries, maybe in your also, there is a custom |
| Frankfurt airport management or something like this - | | | | to applause to the pilots after the successful landing. I, |
| there were no direct flights from Frankfurt to my | | | | as a Soviet-grown one, didn't know about this custom |
| destination. And I had to take a plane to Prague and | | | | till my first flight to Europe. After some time I've had |
| from Prague - with the airplane of that East-European | | | | the opportunity to try out for some hours the Microsoft |
| airline to my destination. | | | | Flight Simulator, where as told by many specialists, the |
| To that moment of time these were some | | | | process of piloting is more close to the reality than |
| propeller-driven machines bought already used from | | | | ever. Guess how many landing attempts I've made on |
| some other airlines and those were sometimes | | | | the simplest Cessna before I managed it without |
| apparently old ones. So, my another regular flight, about | | | | crashing the plane? About a dozen! |
| 20 passengers on board, one stewardess, and two | | | | Actually, one should not be afraid of flying, because |
| pilots. Everything seems to be alright, I've been flying | | | | international statistic tells us that from automobile |
| since my childhood and I'm feeling good, lucky to see | | | | catastrophes lots of people are dying every day and |
| my friends in a couple of hours, we drive to the | | | | airplane crashes are not quite a frequent stories. So it |
| runway, approval for the flight is received, what I can | | | | is relatively more safe to fly rather than to drive or use |
| hear through the open door of the pilot cabin. Strange, | | | | any other land-transport. But if you think of it from |
| isn't it? I am not sure about the international flight | | | | another point of view - that if in the air something goes |
| regulations but the the cabin door I think must be | | | | wrong - a chance to survive is fast zero. Because |
| closed during the flight. | | | | when you hear from the news that an airplane is |
| So we start running along the runway, and after we | | | | down, you usually hear the amount of dead |
| have climbed about 50 meters, the plane suddenly | | | | passengers and not the percentage of those who |
| takes almost vertical position and we start climbing like | | | | survived and those who did not. And when we think |
| a jet warplane. And that is all with the open cabin door | | | | about the land-transport, we believe that the |
| and without panic, as if it was a quite normal takeoff. | | | | catastrophes is going to be recognizable at least some |
| After I think 5 seconds of such maneuvers we were | | | | seconds before it happens and you will be able to act |
| climbing normally, just as usual. I took a glance around | | | | to get escaped. Of course, it is all the matter of luck |
| me to see the reaction of the other passengers on | | | | and destiny and one should decide on his own. But |
| that, but everybody was quite calm. The funniest thing | | | | surely, those who never flied, should definitely try this |
| was that those 2 stunt-pilots have started the descent | | | | out. |
| the same way. And again everything was appreciated | | | | Have a nice flight with all the airlines of the world. |