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Re: Flying dreams

RobBurson wrote: My plane doesn't even have a stick. You would think this is a nightmare, but I wake up happy. :mrgreen:

Whats up doc?


No stick in the airplane... So what do you wake up pulling on? And why is your wife standing there with a disgusted look on her face?

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Gump...how many wives did you say you have had?....You asked for this :twisted: How many times did you wake up pulling on it?...The stick, that is.
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Re: Flying dreams

Just remember my motto:

Go ugly early, and you'll never go without!

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That motto always worked for us at the BOT in Nome :mrgreen:
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GumpAir wrote:Just remember my motto:

Go ugly early, and you'll never go without!

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Re: Flying dreams

Speaking of flying dreams, I knew an older guy who had a forced landing one afternoon after running out of gas. He had taken an after-lunch nap before flying, & he said he had a dream in which he'd fueled up the airplane. Therefore (since he thought he'd fueled it up) he just leaped in it & took off without dipping the tanks. Sounded pretty iffy to me, but that was his story. A story like that's no worse than just admitting he screwed up, I guess.

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Re: Flying dreams

Definitely have had dreams about taking off into wires. Dang, maybe it comes from the poor climb perf. of the c150?
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I consider any flying dream to be a good night. Last night I dreamed I was drunk and choking on shards of a broken pencil.
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Re: Flying dreams

DonC wrote:That motto always worked for us at the BOT in Nome :mrgreen:


I perfected the technique at the Pondoo!!!! Still works to this day in times of need. Never know when you might have to throw yourself on that grenade. :twisted:

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After looking at these guys you know it's VERY early!

DonC wrote:That motto always worked for us at the BOT in Nome :mrgreen:
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Waiting for "The Board of Trade" to open :wink: Bad wx day no flying. Guy leaning on Tony is Pat O'Brien The TV talent :roll: I am on the right, several yrs ago 8)

dirtstrip wrote:After looking at these guys you know it's VERY early!

DonC wrote:That motto always worked for us at the BOT in Nome :mrgreen:
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You guys are really drunk on the nostalgia here. :) What the hell was Pat O'brien doing in Nome?
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He was the color, stand up, guy for CBS coverage of the Iditarod dog sled race that year. We were flying the TV crew.

1SeventyZ wrote:You guys are really drunk on the nostalgia here. :) What the hell was Pat O'brien doing in Nome?
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Uhhhhh, Don...

How many "several years" ago?

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,Geeezze can't be that long ago :roll: 35 yrs, 1975 :wink: Flew in support of the Iditarod one way or another the first 17 races. Seems like along time ago :lol:

GumpAir wrote:Uhhhhh, Don...

How many "several years" ago?

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Re: Flying dreams

Flying dreams all the time,

Usually I am in an unfamiliar airliner getting a check ride. Can't figure out what I am doing there...but enjoying the hell out of it.

Then there was this dream: My best buddy was making a low pass in his Skybolt. He hits the ground, the airplane flips over and catches on fire. I rush out to rescue him and find him rolled out flat and about 1 inch thick. Sort of like a cartoon character. Deader than a doornail. I peal him off the ground and begin to sob. Woke myself up crying.

He had a similiar one about be but turned out better. He said that I crashed my Pitts and tumbled out of the cockpit. According to him...I rolled across the field like a ball: stopped rolling, dusted myself off and walked away with a big smile. I like his dream about me better.
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To say the least we had some real thrills in our Skybolts and Pitts. Fodder for crazy dreams. Had a barrel of fun. We are 'old farts" now...I play around in a Maule and he in a C-170. We are world class "hangar flyers" however. Enjoy!! :lol:

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At least you didn't wake up, turn to your right, start shaking your passenger sitting in the co-pilot's seat in the middle of a 2.5 hour flight...and begin this story with "I JUST HAD THE WIERDEST DREAM!" :lol:

courierguy wrote:I had two doozies in the last couple weeks.

In the first I'm wandering around a giant cruise ship, looking for an opening big enough to get the plane out so I can take off. It seems I had just landed in the central atrium, and had somehow mislaid the access point that was obviously there, or else I couldn't have landed in the first place, right? The passengers and crew were all friendly, and no one seemed put out, like it was a no big deal daily occurrence. I had watched a show about the "Empress of the Sea" a few days before, the biggest ship in the world, and no doubt that put the bug in my head. I woke up before the takeoff.

The second dream, just last night, took place at the 17 or 19 K elevation of the Mount Everest highlands, it seems that I had a friend who was a pilot for.... Tiger Woods. It was some kind of resort or something, and as the sun went down Tiger started talking about wanting to go into town. His pilot and I looked at each other, the conditions were deteriorating, the wind was coming up and an already spooky strip was getting even worse. Somehow a few minutes later, all three of us were in the plane, I don't remember the launch, and en route to "town". Tiger changed his mind, and wanted to go a nightclub, again my pilot friend and I just looked at each other. Oh boy, here we go again! Later, with no transition, we found ourselves back in the airplane (the nightclub had bingo BTW) and now Tiger was flying, and the conditions had worsened. I remember the strip being short and steep, and the wind was on our tail, but I woke up before the landing.

I couldn't make this stuff up, it really happened, sort of. #-o
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Re: Flying dreams

DonC wrote:Wow.... Z I have the same dreams as #1, 2. and 6, but it is night time :shock: Dam hope that don't mean I am a closet democrat. Couldn't live with that [-X :mrgreen:

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My flying dreams almost always cover these scenarios:

1. Trying to takeoff from a city street, taxiing around looking for an opening in the lines and trees.
2. Flying below tree tops and power lines along streets
3. Where is the plane? Anxiety about where I parked it.
4. Arrive back to find plane balled up by wind.
5. Too many pax.
6. Dreams where I am flying without a plane, and having to flap my arms like I'm swimming.


Wow, I guess I'll third that. Same dreams here... especially the ones about flying along streets with power lines.
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Re: Flying dreams

I don't dream to often, but I saw this post and had to chuckle :D

Last night I was awakened by hysterical laughter, followed by my wife saying.."Look at the cats dancing on the tables!" WTF??

A short time later, she rambles several sentences. All I could understand was "The people at the bar are all running across the tables"

So I woke her this morning and asked her what she was dreaming about?? She had no clue.

Sounds like a table fetish to me??

She is really quite entertaining because she does this often. And always something different :D
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Re: Flying dreams

Sounds like u have to take her to town more often :wink: Oh... never mind Fairbanks won't help............ :mrgreen: Opps sorry chicken thought it was your post :oops:

chickenair wrote:I don't dream to often, but I saw this post and had to chuckle :D

Last night I was awakened by hysterical laughter, followed by my wife saying.."Look at the cats dancing on the tables!" WTF??

A short time later, she rambles several sentences. All I could understand was "The people at the bar are all running across the tables"

So I woke her this morning and asked her what she was dreaming about?? She had no clue.

Sounds like a table fetish to me??

She is really quite entertaining because she does this often. And always something different :D
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Re: Flying dreams

I had a dream one time where i had crashed my plane into a den of rattle snakes. The snakes were coming up through the floor of the airplane right under my feet. I knew I had to get out of there with one motion. I gave a hell of a leap to escape the snakes and landed out of bed on the floor. My wife was hollering at me, as I had hit her on the head with my fist as I jumped. My wife asked me what the hell I was doing. So I told her falling out of bed evidently.
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