Question Have you ever been on an airplane?

[ex-orbinaut]

I've flown about a dozen times (from the rear seat) in a L-19 "birddog". And soloed 6 times in a schweizer 2-33 glider (does that count) ?

Oh, and a L-13 blanik. That was amazing.

It counts more than anything. :thumbup: That's REAL flying! (clarify what I mean here... talking about the gliding; best sort of flying there is).

 

[clickypens]

I've been on some comercial 727,737 flights. Once I flew on an Airbus (I don't remember what it was). My dad used to fly and I've been on quite a few private planes, Cessna 152s and 172s, Piper Cherokees and Tomahawks, a Mooney and a Cirrus. That Cirrus was something else, it'd pull 300mph like a 152 would 60, and still had fixed gear.

 

[Quick_Nick]

That Cirrus was something else, it'd pull 300mph like a 152 would 60, and still had fixed gear.

Wow! That's pretty dang epic! :thumbup:
And I just looked up pics of the cockpit too... VERY nice!

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I looked around the internet, and found a 2009 Cessna 172 Skyhawk going for (get this) $297000 USD. If that's not expensive I don't know what is.

I noticed the prices on Wikipedia the other day:

Unit cost
172 USD$8,700 (1956)[2]
172R USD$234,500 (2008)[3]
172S USD$283,500 (2008)[4]

 

[chad_s]

I don't remember what commercial planes I've been on, but non-commercially I've been on a C-9B and a 727 (Vomit Comet).
In a couple of weeks I'll be going on a 737 to Las Vegas.

 

[unknown_orbiter]

http://www.aso.com/listings/AircraftListings.aspx?mg_id=22&act_id=1&gclid=CPy8mtSrraACFVk65QodlkG-ZA

 

[Artlav]

Many times on Il-86, Tu-154, various Boeings and Airbusses, maybe some others as i didn't often checked the name of the plane. Never been on small/private stuff. Lucky people you are in USA, private planes being legal there.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Tu-134M 'Crusty', Tu-154M (&B) 'Careless', Yak-40 'Codling', Yak-42 'Clobber', Il-86, Boeing 737-200, Boeing-737-300, A310, A320, A319. As you can guess, most of time lately I fly Boeings and Airbuses.

Mine most loved one was Il-86.

 

[Bj]

Couldnt you buy a new cheaper?

Unless some property of a object makes its value worth more the older it gets, new is almost always not cheaper.

I looked around the internet, and found a 2009 Cessna 172 Skyhawk going for (get this) $297000 USD. If that's not expensive I don't know what is.

Try anything bigger... :thumbup:

Look at this;

http://www.airplanetradeonline.com/apdetail13300.htm
only $19.9K never mind it was built back in 1968...

A more realistic year
http://www.airplanetradeonline.com/apdetail13291.htm
$193K for 2002

If I ever wanted a plane, this would be (like) it
http://www.airplanetradeonline.com/apdetail12394.htm
$995K 1973

Or how about
http://www.airplanetradeonline.com/apdetail13162.htm
for $17,250,000

Flying is expensive

Cheapest thing you can do to come to flying, is buy a build a simpit for FSX, with the necessary equipment to run full everything at 60FPS.

 

[tblaxland]

737-700/800, 767-300ER, Dash 8, Saab 340, Cessna 172, and also a small helicopter (I was quite young and don't remember what the picture I have in my memory looks like a Robinson R22)

 

[Loru]

First flight in commercial ATR 72-200
Second and third 737-500
Once in AN-2 and I will not enter this plane again.
Several times in PZL-104 Wilga with my pilot friend and I mannage to convince him to fly for a while.

 

[garyw]

lots of RJ-85 flights, one ATR-72, one B-737 and several A-320's. I've yet to fly long haul but that's coming in a few years.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

As Pilot
Cessna 172S - charter and lessons
Rutun Long-EZ - got plans now
Tiger moth - pleasure flight

As passenger
Boeing 757
Bell 206b jetRanger
AgustaWestland Merlin
Aérospatiale Puma
Aérospatiale Gazelle
and many more that i cant recall the type.

 

[rucinter]

I've seen two Concorde from inside, the ones displayed at Air and Space Museum, in Paris, France. Never flown in one, though. Only in commercial Aribuses and Boeings. They also have in Paris an Ariane V and IV displayed vertically and I've seen the Saturn V from JSC, Houston. That one was the most impressive sight. Ever.

 

[damor]

Hello friends; in fact, I have flown in some aircrafts. For example, a Boeing 717 and 747; also in Mcdonnell Douglas MD80 (really this aircraft flew like a eagle ) and also in a Airbus A321 ( this aircraft I didn´t like very much ). I have worked in airport of Madrid in Spain too and I could see many aircrafts and I have been inside the cockpits. I could see too even the Air Force One when Bush visited Spain but I couldn´t to be inside,jejeje; there were a lot of people with many guns and weapon,jejeje. I coud see too an Antonov A124 ( it had got a twenty wheels in the main landing gear). It is really a wonderful thing. Bye friends.

 

[andysim]

Never flown but plan too soon. I love airplanes.

 

[earthorbit]

Bergfalke 3
(a German Gliding Plane)
A little Motorplane, i don't know the type name.
and... i was on the left Wing of a 747 (In the Technology Museum in Speyer they have one.)

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Hmm, let's see...

. Boeing 757 (many variants).
. Airbus A321-200.

 

[Donamy]

... I mannage to convince him to fly for a while.

Flying is easy, take-off and landing, that's the real excitement.

 

[baluba]

My first flight was in a Boeing 767-300
The others:
Boeing 707-300B (Spanish Air Force)
B727-200
B737-400 and 737-800 (most of the times)
B757-200
ATR 72-500
Airbus A319, A320, A321 and A330
DC-9
MD-80, 83, 87 and 88
CRJ-200
C295
C130H Hercules
Piper Warrior III (a few minutes piloting)
Tecnam P92E (piloting)
TL 96 STAR (piloting)
Rans S-12S (piloting)

I´m sure that problably I´m missing someone as passenger.

Bye

 

[Sunhillow]

Bergfalke 3
(a German Gliding Plane)

Hi
Bergfalke is the only plane I flew myself (and 3 times solo). I think it was Version 3

As you live in Ludwigsburg, did you also fly from Berneck?