Silly Picture Thread.

Jerry_Atrick · September 30, 2022

The way I cured an ex-girlfriends fear of flying was to have my almost elderly father drive us to Tullamarine. She admitted she was relieved to be boarding an aircraft after that episode.

Edited September 30, 2022 by Jerry_Atrick

facthunter · September 30, 2022

Cunning. She's probably a nervous wreck now,

. When a Flighty asked if we could do something about a passengers acute fear of Flying and when she came up we acted real relaxed and I said "this is one of the safest Planes out there and there was no way that we were going to jeopardise getting our superannuation by flying a crook one". That seemed to do it. Nev

Jerry_Atrick · September 30, 2022

I have to admit - it wasn't by design, but, as I was a fledgling piilot at the time, I was able to reassure her those up front aren't in the habit of killing themselves nor their passengers, and that they were certainly more lucid than my ageing father... That also helped..

She still wouldn't get in a light plane (at least with me, anyway)...

[Edit] And, yes.. she was a nervous wreck... though as it turned out, long before I met her, and she was darned good at hiding it

Edited September 30, 2022 by Jerry_Atrick

red750 · September 30, 2022

Reminiscent of the cartoon posted herein.

How often do planes crash?

Only once.

Old Koreelah · September 30, 2022

9 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

...She still wouldn't get in a light plane (at least with me, anyway)...

My other half was scared rigid of flying for decades, then did the Fearless Flying course run by female Qantas pilots. Since then she’s organised several flights OS for us...

but she still won’t go near little aeroplanes!

Jerry_Atrick · September 30, 2022

Sometimes it's a blessing.. no arguments when flying 😉

nomadpete · September 30, 2022

It must be true.....

I saw it on the Web!

old man emu · October 1, 2022

Beep! Beep.

I hope that used an Acme rocket.

red750 · October 1, 2022

Isn’t technology grand? Fancy applying for a loan without even an interview all through cyberspace.

Yenn · October 1, 2022

Who says an aeroplane only crashes once. A lot of you would have seen the red DH Dragon which went to several fly ins in Qld. The owner pilot told me that it had crashed years ago, killing his father and uncle. He had more recently managed to buy it and it was restored. It then went on to kill him in a flight from Monto, ending up in a mountain near Gympie.