Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.