Food for thought. LED light causes cancer?

[Macca]

I am also more reluctant to get onto an aeroplane than in a car, despite the stats. But the stats don't tell the whole story. If I am on a plane and something goes badly wrong then I'm dead. if I'm in a car and something goes badly wrong there is a reasonable chance of survival.

Consequently, even though the stats clearly demonstrate that there is a much greater chance of something going wrong in a car compared to an aircraft, I feel much more comfortable getting in the car than getting onboard a plane.

[Joe]

I am also more reluctant to get onto an aeroplane than in a car, despite the stats. But the stats don't tell the whole story. If I am on a plane and something goes badly wrong then I'm dead. if I'm in a car and something goes badly wrong there is a reasonable chance of survival.

Consequently, even though the stats clearly demonstrate that there is a much greater chance of something going wrong in a car compared to an aircraft, I feel much more comfortable getting in the car than getting onboard a plane.

Well, yes, me too, though the more I fly the less I worry about flying. I had a horrendous flight back from Amsterdam about fifteen years ago, which put me off flying for several years.

[Macca]

The only flight I've had that wasn't horrendous was an overnight across the States, hardly anyone on the plane so I covered myself in blankets and slept across a row of empty seats. That's why I've always wondered why, even in 2018, there is no 'B.A Baracus' solution on offer where you can just eat a drugged hamburger and wake up at customs.

Mind you I've a mate whose been in 2 crash landings and walked away both times. And he still flies. Hope over experience IMO.

[Macca]

In fact, taking that thought further, why not drug everyone who gets on a plane? No need to provide food, drink or toilet facilities, no need for cabin crew, save the airlines a fortune. Also no risk of being hi-jacked in mid-air, so security problems solved as well.

[walpurgis]

You should try being in a plane doing aerobatics. You'd either love it or be too traumatised to ever fly again.

(I loved it by the way )

Flying is perfectly safe. It's the crashing bit that hurts!

[Macca]

No way you'd get me doing that unless you put a gun to my head.

To get on a plane I have to think about all the bomber crews in WW2 flying over Germany in comparatively primitive aircraft and being shot at by triple A and Focke-Wulfs. Then it seems a bit shit that I am scared to get on a modern airliner in peacetime. So I basically shame myself into doing it. But I don't like it one bit.

[Pigmy Pony]

I bought a novelty cigarette lighter while on holiday last year, which has a couple of flashing LED's. That's going in the bin now, not worth the risk

[struth]

No way you'd get me doing that unless you put a gun to my head.

To get on a plane I have to think about all the bomber crews in WW2 flying over Germany in comparatively primitive aircraft and being shot at by triple A and Focke-Wulfs. Then it seems a bit shit that I am scared to get on a modern airliner in peacetime. So I basically shame myself into doing it. But I don't like it one bit.

Used to fly a lot and hated it. Only time I liked it was in a little Cessna that was fun. Helicopters were novel but you soon thought about a minor failure and the end of days

[Macca]

It's weird. Helicopters I don't mind at all. I flew over the volcano on Monserrat in one on Friday 13th. And we did nearly die, but that was the fault of the volcano, not the chopper.

[spendorman]

About 25 years ago I was in a small plane, certainly very scared, was even more scared when the pilot said to me:

"you take the controls now"

I did, and when the plane recovered from it's aerobatics, he said to me:

"Don't worry, If we crash they won't know who was flying"