Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Awesome Story... 👍😁

http://www.facebook.com/InspiredLifePage/videos/1635263989929481/

bahmer

Very good story Don I wish all would look and listen to the story. I will not give it away but it is great. Thanks.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

You Might Have Told Me, Way Back When, But I Didn't Realize We Were The Same Age, Kind of Cool... Don D.

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bahmer

Now you know why some of your scary videos are really scary to me. I use to have to fly for my job as a project engineer and for two years I would fly out on Monday and return on either Friday or Saturday.So when I see that Southwest thing it scares me. And when I see those guys in their flying suits or these clowns parachuting off of buildings my legs go limp with fear. Anyway keep up the good work I love them all.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

I use to love flying, bahmer, and actually took a few flying lessons in a Cessna 150 a few eons ago.

For Mother's Day, when 35, I ask for and received a pair of parachute boots, and went parachuting at a parachute sports club thirty or so miles from my home. It was an unforgettable experience.

First, four hours of ground training, hanging in harness, practicing throwing out the emergency back-up chute, in case the main chute didn't open, then practicing guiding the parachute one direction or another with toggle grips, to avoid power lines or coming down on a fence, or a tree, or whatever...

It was one of those few endeavors in life that really holds your attention.

My children, who were preteen at the time, took snapshots of me as I was descending. I only returned a few times after that, so not sure I got the money's worth from the boots.

More mundane pursuits, such as den mother in the cub scouts, and secretary of the PTA interfered, but for years, I hung the eye goggles I'd worn (to protect my eyes from the 90 mph headwind when I stepped out on the plane stoop before leaping off) from my rear view mirror.

Whenever I faced a challenge, I would look at those goggles, and think, "If I could do that, I can certainly do this."

Sorry to be slightly off-subject.

The videos are sometimes reminiscent of Lou Dobbs nightly dare-devil videos which he always includes in his programs, but I couldn't see this one, as had to sign into FaceBook.

I have never signed up for FaceBook, and never will.

bahmer

A friend of mine and I were going up to a fly in in Wisconsin in heis plane. He would buy a wrecked plane and take it all apart and then restore the plane to its original like new condition. He was truly great at that. As we were flying he said take the controls and then he took his hands off of the controls. He then says hey you are a natural you could be a pilot. I told him not really because my hands were frozen on that stick and I was just to afraid to move is all. That sums up my flying experience aside from flying commercial that is. You can have the parachute thing because for me it would be way to messy of a sport with bringing changes of clothing and taking a shower and all.

teabag09

I flew a Cessna 150 from Fla. to Ga. for refueling on our way to Annapolis Md. with a pilot friend. He decided he wanted to take a nap. Showed me the different controls, had me go through the several maneuvers, up down left right and where the fuel switch over was. He unbalanced the plane without telling me so I would have to actually fly it, pilots will know what I'm talking about.

We flew for several hours and it was really neat and then we ran out of gas. In my stupidity I thought that was neat, no noise except the woosh of the prop. As the airspeed goes down you just drop the nose a little and you're gliding. After a bit I woke him up and he switched tanks and the engine refired. Found out later that is one of the dumbest thing you can do in a plane as it may not restart. We also ran out of fuel at our airport in Md. Totally dark, runway lights wouldn't come on when clicked by radio, I had to stick my head out of the window to call the trees for us to land. We could not have made another go around. So much for being young and dangerous. We were both Open Ocean sailboat races. Big B's small brain's. Mike

king hall Loc: Tucson,AZ.

Fresh from laughing at Steve Martin's King-Tut to your awesome story...talk about full circle. Thanks

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

That sounds like an unforgettable experience, - of which life really needs as many as possible. We all need daily routines and schedules, but the exceptions are priceless! I seriously doubt if you were all that frightened.

My longest commercial flights have been from Kennedy to Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion Airport), Israel - non-stop was 12 hours, second longest was from Kennedy to Buenos Aires (Ezeiza International Airport), Argentina - non-stop was 10 hours.

Being in the air is total joy.

Until you have to land, no earthly problems can touch you, God willing, - and the plane stays in the air.

bahmer

Most all of my commercial flights were in the continental United States and some into Calgary Canada. Oh I have also flown to Maui in Hawaii a number of times as my oldest daughter lives there. I don't mind commercial flights or at lest didn't but now what with these safety clowns at the airports today where one practically has strip for them it has become to much of a hassle for me anyway. I choose to be grounded for quite awhile from now on.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

You absolutely had God as a copilot on that flight, although thinking back on it since must be great fun, once you had safely landed.

Knowing the plane was out of gas and was descending, no matter how gradually, would not be my cup of tea...

While taking lessons, we would arrive back at the airfield to have all the runways occupied, and my training pilot would tell me to just land it in the grass to the right of the runway, meaning I'd bounce what felt like ten feet off the ground after initial contact, before staying on the ground... unforgettable memories now.

My grandchildren look at their white haired grandmother, and find such stories, especially the skydiving, preposterous, except I have pictures!

bahmer

Good for you, nothing like having pictures, to tell the tale.