The Sea At Night

[willg]

go ahead and laugh at me if you want, but does flying over the atlantic in the middle of night freak anyone else out? I just think the see looks really really eerie and overwhelming, I think i may have a slight fear of the sea, as i really panic a lot when i see it (more so during the nightime). I'll always try and find airfields that are really landlocked, like central african ones, or russia, maybe even central usa (Kansas is one of my favourite circuits)

[jb2_86_uk]

Is it just the atlantic or is it em all? I think I might know what you mean, I had a 'spooky' feelig the other night when flying over the pacific at midnight. I think it is the moonlit clouds hovering over nothingness! lol

John

[beaky]

What you need is a nice trip thru the Bermuda Triangle, or maybe trying Lindbergh's flight in the Ryan . That'll straighten you out!

[jknight8907]

Moonless night....high cloud cover....rough running engine(s).

Yep, that's the ticket!

[papa-metro]

as a "1000" hour club member flying in Connies (AWAC) I always found the North Atlantic beautiful, night or day ... even on 3 engines
papa-metro usaf 1953-57

[willg]

ya it can be nice at times but when its midnight and your at 35 000 foot in a massive 747 with the calm dark sea just below you not moving, it can get quite kind of eerie.

its okay in daytime though, in fact it seems quite peaceful and calm.

as for the Bermuda triangle, where is that in FS? id actually like to fly over  that sometime or other lol. hopefully i'll get back in one piece

[jb2_86_uk]

The Bermuda Triangle plots a triangle between the east coast of florida, the island of Bermuda and Peurto Rica!

Happy Flying!

John

[GunnerMan]

You flew the Connie Papa-Mero?! I love that plane we ad the Columbine in our home field untill they flew it off to the Pheonix Air Musiem and boarded her up for good

[Foxtrot Sport]

I bet it would if i ever fly night over the ocean, and had the lights off.  But unfortunately, my computers capabilities leave a slightly lighted line at the horizon, ehh, takes away the effect.

Ya know what, i bet it would really freak me out more in the simpit or something.  Really good quality though, probably like that big thing JBaymore is building, hey, good job he's doing on that too.

-HF

[tsunami_KNUW]

ya, it is kinda erie flying over the N. Atlantic early in the morning...but I have a fear of the ocean anyway. I dunno why. I guess it's because around here, there aren't many beaches, just cliffs that start @ the surface and go straight down into the depths (a few hundred feet or so). You never know when something will pop up! But I have no problem with swimming in lakes for some reason...

[willg]

ya, lakes are nice to fly over, the oceans just so big and seems so sinister, i guess ill have to stop thinking like this if im to join the flying club when im 18  ;)

[commoner]

...mmm...wonder what Charles A. Lindbergh thought of it in 1927, all on his own and no GPS....commoner  ;D

[sir_crashalot]

Willg, are you talking about the real ocean or in the simulator? When you are talking about the first one, I agree. It's kind of scary to fly across that much water with no place to land.

Crash