Sweetleaf wrote:
Well i am not saying I can actually predict anything but I do usually assume the worst and sometimes my assumption proves to be right. I mean I used to think about various senerios involving people with guns taking place in my school....and when I was in 10th grade some seemingly random person(not a student) came into the school and ended up killing one of the students. I mean it was a coincidence I am sure but still it was not suprising to me after having thought about it. I mean I know the reality...but its hard not to feel like there was something I could have done to prevent it which is ridiculous.
I guess you are right. I'm going to have to rethink my philosophy here.
Jacoby wrote:
lol ya, I do the same thing. Flying on an airplane scares the **** of me. I'll play out everything in my mind and if something bothers me, get really paranoid about it.
I'd say I'm a pretty pessimistic person. One of these hope for the best, expect the worst type of people. I protect myself that way, been crushed too many times.
There's nothing to be paranoid about when flying. If, for some reason, the pilot and copilot are both killed, you should use the radio to contact an air traffic controller. They will be able to tell you what to do in that sort of situation, and everything should work out fine.
If something goes wrong with the plane and the pilot is alive, there's nothing to worry about. They're trained to handle that sort of stuff. Heck, even I know what to do in case of a total engine failure, and I've never flown a plane in my life. Without the engines, the plane is going to stall. What you want to do is point the nose of the plane down to let gravity accelerate the plane back up to speed to keep going. By doing this, you could probably go far enough to land safely at an airport, but if that isn't an option, landing it in a body of water would be a close second, followed by an open field. Then it shouldn't be too long before you're rescued.
When flying, the only thing you should really be concerned about is an electromagnetic pulse attack. What EMP does is disable all electronics, and most modern day aircraft can't fly without all the electrical systems. Although if that happens, you're screwed whether you're in the sky, in you're car (it would cause the fuel in the car to ignite, probably killing you), or anything else really. Such an attack would make all electronic devices totally useless. I predict that that's how WWIII will be started, and it would probably be extremely effective.
Yeah, airplanes are a special interest of mine...
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