Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > so..are you gonna keep flying??

[bradders]

Originally Posted by Bionicle

I would say flying is safer than staying at home

In 2005, 671 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in Great Britain, this was 21 per cent of all deaths from road accidents,
The total number of deaths in road accidents 3,201 in 2005 the number of fatalities has remained fairly constant over the last ten years.

Just over half (52 per cent) of people killed in road accidents in 2005 were car users. Pedal cyclists and two-wheeled motor vehicle users represented 5 and 18 per cent of those killed respectively. Occupants of buses, coaches, goods and other vehicles accounted for the remaining 4 per cent of road deaths.

how many people fly V travel by means mentioned? deaths per trip/mile is the onkly way to compare.

Glad its not going to affect most, its not the risk that causes me an issue, after all have we forgotten the IRA issues we had for years?? Did it stop visists to London, Brighton etc?? Mine is more gthe added inconvenice - I am an inpatient perosn with better things to do than queue - thats why I woont be floying...until of course liots stop in which case no queues!!

[madmav]

I dont fly! why? because i'm scared of flying ! my arms get tired, my eys run,and my landing gear is not what it used to be !!! ask the missus!!
But I do spend a lot of time inbetween the ring trips running my Elite customers to and from Airports around the uk !
I was at Eastmidlands yesterday to pick up a lady from Bergerac,
she told me she was body searched at the France airport !
I was talking to one of the S.W.A.T cops there at Eastmidlands,
I asked him why no one was being searched and he did not have an answer for me!
seems we are to proud in this country or to scared to do our job!

1 stop people
2 ask them where they are going or what they are doing
3 search them
4 if all is ok send them on their way !

simple Init!

Baseball bat's at the ready I say!

[Glyn]

i dont think i'll ever go on a plane
did it once that was enough
two week holiday in corfu when i was bout 19
dont get i wrong, didn't mind the taking off and landing stuff. the rest off it was soul destroying
hanging around for three hours with nowt to do before you board
sitting for another half hour waiting to take off
then three hours on the damn plane (for me) waiting to get there
another hour for your ludgage
another hour spent waiting for the coach and the reps to stop chatting to each other and accually do something like find the people that are ment to be on the coach
then an hour on the flippin coach riding around dropping people hear there and every where

14 days to get over it and you have to do it again to get home
and that was before they had sucurity
i'd prefer to chew me arm off

[YMFB]

Personally it wont stop me, I fly almost only for work, havent flown for hols for probably ten years. It wouldnt stop me anyway and I agree with all the restrictions if packing luggage in the hold is the safest way then thats wher it belongs. Only thing I will miss is my mobile and laptop whilst waiting after security/passport control.

[PeteB]

Why stop???

Those wishing to disrupt our society with bombs will gain satisfaction even without any explosions, the fear and paranoia felt by some, feeds their evil minds, so laugh in their face and get on with life, feel sorry for the poor misguided fools or let Mav have ago at them?