Posted: 5/10/2016 3:41:40 PM EDT
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Not long after I upgraded to captain years ago, I had recurring dreams of me trying to taxi the airplane and hitting everything around me. It was several minutes of destruction as my wing tips smashed into parked aircraft, fuel trucks, catering vans, etc. I would wake up all sweaty and stressed. They went away after I became comfortable with my job. |
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I'm not a pilot, but I'm an A&P whose job is about 98% travel on the airplanes that I work on (737's). I get those dreams from time to time as well, and they can be full of accurate minor details. The most vivid one I remember is being in the jump seat on approach when both engines quit. Both pilots are scrambling through a checklist, and I'm standing (sort of contorted) trying to check the circuit breakers behind the pilot's seats. I look forward and see that we are almost to the ground, so I give up and strap myself into the jump seat. I remember having to fiddle with the 5-way buckle, just like in real life where it seems like one of the belt straps won't click in right. Before we hit the runway, one of the pilots makes a wise crack about how some other pilot (he named an actual pilot in the company in the dream) wouldn't be able to handle this. We slid all the way down the runway, and I woke up as we were sliding through a barrier at the end of the runway. Oddly enough, a few months later we lost an engine about 10 minutes into a flight, when a fuel shut off valve $#!t the bed and popped a breaker (seems like a real weak spot in that design, but whatever). We landed safely. I was sitting in the cabin at the time and had no idea what was going on in the cockpit, other than the pilot telling everyone that we had "an engine indication issue." |