It's a bad sign I read OKC and IND as meaning Okinawa and Independent Neuralnet Division respectively...
Doesn't sound like the best flight to say the least, so drinking sounds good.
I'm ill and could do with a whisky to clear my nose. It's 7 o'clock somewhere!
(01-31-2013, 03:45 AM)Agmen of Eladesor Wrote: After today, I really, really, REALLY don't care, either.
Had to fly back to Indiana today to after taking the second big Penske rental truck down to Oklahoma since we're moving down there (as I've alluded to in the past). Because of the way the airline routes things, I flew from OKC to BWI to IND - Oklahoma City to Baltimore to Indianapolis, then took a shuttle bus up to Lafayette.
Anyone that's been in the eastern portion of the United States today knows what the weather has been here. The trip from OKC to BWI, the seatbelt sign stayed on the entire 2 1/2 hour trip. The last 45 minutes of the flight, I was concerned we were on an Aeroflot flight instead of Southwest, because I don't think I've ever been in turbulence that bad - ever. And that includes driving cars with bad suspensions over washboard roads.
Seriously - it's one thing to have an minor in-flight emergency. It's another to have the plane skidding sideways through the sky (no joke), shaking and rattling like it was a dog toy, with the cabin lights flickering on and off like we were in a scene from some airplane disaster movie. When the pilot put it into BWI - and he greased the actual landing, even though we felt like we were an ice cube in the blender on the whole approach - everyone on the plane applauded.
Trip to IND was bumpy during landing, and we ended up flying at 42,000 feet instead of the normal 35,000 just to clear the turbulence during the trip west. And of course, here in Indiana it was starting to freeze on the ground, which means when we touched down the plane actually felt like it started to skid sideways on the runway...
Couple that with a van ride from the airport home in a snow squall with the van driver passing everything in sight, driving like a maniac ...
I now have a 24 ounce glass in front of me. I know it's a 24 ounce glass because from experience I know it will hold two cans of pop. In said glass is 16 ounces of Long Island Iced Tea mixed with 8 ounces of Jack. Screw it, I'm getting hammered tonight so I can sleep without worrying about how brown I turned things under my pants today. (I seriously have not been that scared on an airplane since I was on a little ATR puddle jumper going from Atlanta to Birmingham back in the 80's and we flew through a thunderstorm and lost an engine - on a propjet.)
Good night, good luck, and good drinking! Na Zdorovie!
Sounds like if the pilots/s of that plane had access to a "brown trouser alert" button, they would have pressed it.
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