Flying nightmares--Pt II

RICHARD5

RICHARD5

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Damn flying-under-the-wires nightmare. For years I have occasionally had the dream of flying along a road unable to climb above wires stretched across the road. Just as I calm down and begin to 'enjoy' the ride I see a big semi-truck opposite direction, same altitude. I wake up.

Now for twice this week I dream I'm riding shotgun with a pilot friend. We're canyon flying and begin to pull up for a ridge when I call "Wires!" He pushes the nose down and we go under. Just as we breathe a sigh of relief we see more wires and pull up over them. Then there is a 3rd and a 4th and a 5th set of wires above and below our alt.... Day-am!

I wake up feeling somehow content because I'm looking at some gorgeous scenery even though I know this is it.
 
RICHARD5 said:
Damn flying-under-the-wires nightmare. For years I have occasionally had the dream of flying along a road unable to climb above wires stretched across the road. Just as I calm down and begin to 'enjoy' the ride I see a big semi-truck opposite direction, same altitude. I wake up.

Now for twice this week I dream I'm riding shotgun with a pilot friend. We're canyon flying and begin to pull up for a ridge when I call "Wires!" He pushes the nose down and we go under. Just as we breathe a sigh of relief we see more wires and pull up over them. Then there is a 3rd and a 4th and a 5th set of wires above and below our alt.... Day-am!

I wake up feeling somehow content because I'm looking at some gorgeous scenery even though I know this is it.
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I heard a crazy flying under wires story when I was doing my CFI training.

Apparently several years ago a student at a large flight training outfit @ PMP was taking a 172 on a solo x-country to Naples. Said student landed at Naples and soon after reported a vicious bird strike. Funny thing, the "bird" strike looked a lot like someone took a saw-zaw and sliced a perfectly straight section off of the vertical stab.

This clown had buzzed one of the east coast cities so low before making his way across the everglades that he went under a power line. He managed to miss the wire by just enough he didn't put it through the windshield.
 
Velocipede said:
Most helicopter pilots have nightmares about being stuck under wires. Used to happen to me occasionally.
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Thats strange, I have nightmares similar to that about every three months... I'm flying (plane)and have problems getting higher because the power lines are in my path... then I wake up before I hit any of the power lines. :confused::confused:
 
I maybe said this one before, but I had a crazy one that included a BE-55 and CFIT.

I watched myself hit a river. The plane bounced up, engines still running and the tail came off. It came back down and hit the water again, this time the whole fuselage came off. The plane bounced back into the air with me still holding on to the yoke.

I looked like superman or something behind this engine, wind and nose of an airplane. I was still able to fly it some how.

I couldn't get any altitude and hit a tree on the bank in the bend of the river and woke up.
 
I had a dream that I really had to pee while flying with a student. I ended up going out the window, and had to be careful with aim so as not to have it come back in the back of the window.
 
AviatorGator said:
I heard a crazy flying under wires story when I was doing my CFI training.

Apparently several years ago a student at a large flight training outfit @ PMP was taking a 172 on a solo x-country to Naples. Said student landed at Naples and soon after reported a vicious bird strike. Funny thing, the "bird" strike looked a lot like someone took a saw-zaw and sliced a perfectly straight section off of the vertical stab.

This clown had buzzed one of the east coast cities so low before making his way across the everglades that he went under a power line. He managed to miss the wire by just enough he didn't put it through the windshield.
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If you decide to dive from a bird, well that damn bird is going to dive as well. I've seen a company airplane where a buzzard sheered the tip of the vertical stab. We are flying paper thin metal caskets, it does NOT take much to do a lot of damage.
 
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