Are you a member of the mile high club?

I hate flying in a passenger plane too, but my reaction is to be as alert and straight as possible the entire flight - just in case I need to save the plane by flapping my arms or something. The thought of being in any way impaired during a flight bugs me more than the flight does.

The weird thing is that flying only bothers me on a big plane. Put me in a Cessna or a helicopter and I’m fine.

And no, the Mile High Club (Airborne) has eluded me so far.

The rotary mile high club is considerably more exclusive - because helicopters do not routinely have any good reason to fly a mile above ground level, because there’s usually little privacy from the crew, and because if you’re flying it yourself it generally requires a lot more attention than fixed wing.

Again, as stated by the OP - sitting in the hangar in Denver doesn’t count. It’s a mile above ground level, not sea level.

So this would be an impressive achievement - any members on here? I’d have to guess most likely somebody in a large military transport heli, if anything?

Whatever anyone may say, you sure do get a lot of privacy…

I have fooled around while we were sharing a blanket but never gone all the way.

We did it in the refueling seat of a KC-135 right after fueling up a B-52D. A bunch of us were being transported to Guam, and she wanted to know if I’d like to watch the procedure. The ships docked.
The ships undocked.
We followed suit.

I have, a couple of times; even made a video that I loaded to Vimeo of one of them.

Sadly, in a balloon, the mile high club is just higher than 5280’ & does not include the downward travel of zippers.

Yes both on a domestic flight and an international flight.

That’s not what I read in the Penthouse letter you wrote. :slight_smile:

No but I am a member of the Force Ten club - on a ship in a near hurricane in the North Atlantic.

Sigh… I figured any username-post combos for me would involve a boat trailer or something. Didn’t see that one coming. :stuck_out_tongue:

But yes, there were two of us. In one instance, (the future) mizpullin fretted about closing the curtains on the passenger windows. I assured her we were unlikely to be observed.

No, generally I’m too busy flying the plane to get it on with my spouse.

I had to change a monster blow-out poopy diaper in the plane’s tiny little lavatory a week ago - is there a Club for that?

That would be the Pile High Club.

Well, I don’t know… What do you have in mind?

Hey-O!

Traveling messes with my stomach, too. :eek:

12,000 feet - Trail Camp on the Mt. Whitney Trail in the Sierra Nevada range. Also below sea level in nearby Death Valley. (-190 feet)

Flying boom or drogue and probe? :confused:

Boom.

Never mind Denver. People don’t realize Albuquerque is on a slope and 4900-6700 feet, depending on where in the city you are. Santa Fe is 7200 feet. I used to live in Albuquerque, so I’m a member in that sense. :wink: