If I recognised him as David Copperfield, I’d just carry on doing whatever I was doing.
< smacks Revenant Threshold with wet trout >
“Like turning his/her hands into talons & ripping your scrotum off, then leavinng you to die in the gutter?”-Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor
“You know, if this isn’t a risk you’re willing to take every once in a while… well, I just don’t know how you call that 'living”.-Dangerous Nan McGrew
Can I have this as a sig?
Really? Sure! blushes
I couldn’t read any further than this.
This is my favourite answer to anything in the whole world ever.
Tea shopping, Mr. Dent?
Hell, I can’t keep myself from chatting to someone who just has a car that looks interesting. Or maybe a coat that’s pretty. Or who is just in my general vicinity. Of course I’d end up talking to the flying person.
Were I to see a flying person, I’d slowly back away, and hope it wasn’t catching. Because if it was…you know that person who’d be on the 6 O’clock news for being hospitalized after flying into a building? Yeah, that’d be me.
When I dream that I’m flying, people who see me almost always try to ignore me. I think it makes them uncomfortable. There seems to be an unwritten rule of etiquette that you shouldn’t fly where other people can see you. Therefore, the polite response is to pretend like you didn’t see it and let the person be. Have you ever been walking somewhere, and inadvertantly seen someone going to the bathroom? Same idea.
Will Eisner did a classic Spirit story on just this very theme.
Yeah, I’d ask.
I would also, without hesitation, go through the Wardrobe, step into the police call box, and jump on board the Gay Deceiver.
Just thought I’d add…
from the subject line, I thought this thread might be about ‘do you help that little old lady who’s having trouble taking her carry-on luggage to the jet-plane.’ THAT kind of assistance. Not flying WITHOUT the jetplane. 
Yeah, I was about to get all indignant about people who insist on “chatting up” defenseless lone travelers 
I must have lost my sense of wonder. I tried to picture the scene and place myself in it - and at most my reaction would be a shrug, with a possible muttered “whatever”.
I greatly like NoClueBoy’s response, though, which I have now adopted as my standard response to all things curious.
European or African?
Unless he’s about to hit the ground, and has forgotten to notice his bottle of retsina (what is that btw???), I’m not about to distract him (/her/them).
If I see him land, I’d certainly ask if he’s giving lessons.
My reactions to this range between wild curiousity and paranoid caution.
Say “Hi” is a good reaction. So is politely exiting the scene as quickly as I can without breaking into a run and inviting pursuit.
My parallel to this question involves talking dogs.
I always wonder… what would I do if my pet dog, Hal, started talking back to me when I talked to him?
I would love to talk to him, and show him off to whoever would watch, but…
What if it turned out like a bad sci-fi or horror film?
I’d be very afraid of an animal with human intelligence and no human socialization. Human psychopaths are bad enough, but what about inhuman ones?
What about a race of sentient dogs taking over the planet? Thankfully, Hal is neutered, but still… the concern.
So my second option would be putting him to death, ASAP, just as insurance.
Plus, the little guy is named after Dr. Chandra’s famed creation. What if he detects my AE-35 unit has failed and asks me to go up on the roof and fix it? That could be un-nerving.
Well obviously that would be Jesus descending from the clouds with power and great glory.
So I guess I’d try and look busy.