Butterflies Or James Bond????

[fiveboy]

Ok I am getting nuts for these polls. Maybe its the election... or maybe just because the info/feed back is interesting.

Heres a new one:

When you fly....scared, lightly nervous, energized or cool as 007?

I can tell you I am way more nervous thinking about it than when Im doing it (but occasionally I get a little freaked and then refocus).

 

[Jamie Cleary]

Hey Robert,
I can't say I never get nervous once while flying on a gusty day
I kept getting what I would call blade flutter feels like the blades
are out track and makes a creepy sound, it was the most wind I
ever flew in and don,t care to again.
Besides the above time I used to be a nervous flier although I love
flying I would be nervous, then I became a born again christian and
just knowing if I come down I will be going right back Relaxes me!!

 

[fiveboy]

Jamie

I am not nervous about being with God.... its getting there that grabs my attention!

 

[gyromike]

I checked my pulse a couple of times while flying, and it was no different than my normal resting rate.
I don't get a big adrenaline rush from flying, I find it relaxing instead.

I have had a couple of engine outs and times when the engine has spit and sputtered on me, and that did get my attention but I just kept an eye out for possible landing spots.

I suppose that if I started shedding parts in flight or found myself inverted and on fire I might get a little excited.

 

[jcarleto]

I picked the James Bond line, but that's not exactly it. Most of the time I am calm, but busy being critical of myself for every little altitude variance or any execution that is less than perfect. I have been nervous before...but not frequently and not yet in a gyro...mostly I am too busy fussing at myself to be nervous.

*JC*

 

[Passin' Thru]

I checked my pulse a couple of times while flying, and it was no different than my normal resting rate.
I don't get a big adrenaline rush from flying, I find it relaxing instead.

I have had a couple of engine outs and times when the engine has spit and sputtered on me, and that did get my attention but I just kept an eye out for possible landing spots.

I suppose that if I started shedding parts in flight or found myself inverted and on fire I might get a little excited.

That pretty well discribes it for me.

I am very relaxed and enjoy the flight, but any change in sound or feel get my fullest attention. If the engine coughs or sputters, one eye automatically zeros in on a potiential landing spot!

Early on, I seem to have developed an automatic sense of terrain awareness, and without consciously thinking about it, I always have a potiential landing spot picked. Except when I fly over open water. Then I am always aware of where the handle is that inflates the floatation devices!

 

[Jamie Cleary]

Jamie

I am not nervous about being with God.... its getting there that grabs my attention!

Amen To That!!!!

 

[WaspAir]

I think cool yet still fully vigilant is the best situation.

 

[Tina]

I feel magic when flying a gyro

Sometimes nervousness will creep in but I just think of my training and the confidence I have flying one of the best designed gyros out their and maintenance help from Dave and the magic comes right back and I have a great time.

I am looking forward in building my confidence and doing more in my gyro like flying to other airports and many more adventures.

 

[John Stahl]

I am so new that I am to dumb to know when to be scared

 

[Gary_in_Orygun]

Normally I'm feelin' cool. But there are those other times...

When I'm down on the deck puttin' around the wide open farm country, I feel "on-edge". I'm looking for birds, farm workers, the couple powerlines that run out to some irrigation pumps...

There was one time when I was flying to Scappoose with a 3000 foot ceiling, and a major breeze coming out of the east from the Columbia Gorge. When I hit the upwind side of a ridge, the updraft sent me up towards that 3000 ft ceiling. At some point in the elevator ride while trying to slow down and get some kind of descent going, I hit a wind sheer. How my pants stayed dry on that flight I can't quite remember.

 

[Mike Schallmann]

If I got nervous when I was flying I'd give it up!! I enjoy the crap outta it!!

 

[Steve McGowan]

Nervous

Nervous

Nope,, Just stay SCARED To Death,,,,

 

[Steve Osborne]

When crossing large bodies of water at low altitude, I start to get the pucker factor

 

[GyroDoug]

I've never checked my pulse when flying, but if I did i would expect it to be running higher that normal, but it would not be from being nervous it would be because of sheer excitement. I don't think I have ever gone flying in anything that didn't make me feel like being right on the edge of a cliff about to go over (with a rope of course). Anyway, my senses are all heightened and fully aware and I am trying to absorb every single bit available to me. It is a natural high for me and I love it. I can't ever remember feeling scared. (probably like John, not smart enough to know I should have been scared) but I sure have fun.

Gyro Doug

 

[mark treidel]

It's that 'sixth sense'...that hightened state of awareness....that paranoia. We learn to embrace these things when we fly & they are what keep us alive. I find myself more nervous during a preflight than when actually flying. In flight, I am relaxed and one with the aircraft. It's the overall picture I cherish....from the time I leave my garage to the time I return. It's an adventure!!

 

[PW_Plack]

If I find myself getting nervous I force myself to relax. Smile, take a couple deep breaths, and get out of whatever environment is causing the stress, even if it means leaving a busy pattern for a few minutes.

I know myself well enough to know that if I'm too tight, I'm more prone to do something impulsive, react badly to a minor problem, skip a checklist item, fixate on an instrument, etc.

 

[freebird]

I am still learning and do get extremely tense. I wouldn't call in nervous though. The first time I flew Chris Burgess' snowbird, I was loving it totally, but when we broke for lunch I realized that my throttle hand felt like it was broken. I had a vicious cramp in it that fortunately was gone by the time I few again. It didn't come back.

If flying gyro's causes stress, I sure seem to want a lot of it ;-)

 

[The Gyro Man]

Yeah, I've been nervous a few times while flying my gyro. Two of the times is when my seatbelt somehow came undone and the ends were behind me flapping in the breeze. I was some miles from the airport and was nervous about hitting some wind shear, etc. and sliding or falling out of my seat before I could get back and land. Was unable to get the seatbelt ends back around me in flight. I had a conversation with God on the trip back to my airfield.

 

[GyroRon]

I used to be somewhat scared while flying.... thinking, What if the wing comes off, what if the jesus bolt snaps in half, what if the plane catches fire, what if I black out doing a aerobatic manuver, etc.... But I have more confidence these days in the machinery and am usually just relaxed and having fun. I still can freak myself out from time to time, but not that often.