On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:34:09 -0800, Mxsmanic wrote
(in article ):

Sometimes some people get spooked when driving out in the middle of
nowhere (especially the desert southwest of the USA) for various
reasons. Obviously darkness, isolation, and a lack of signs of
civilization and humanity can play a role in getting one's mind to
wander in the wrong directions. These must all be greatly magnified
when flying alone at night in relatively unpopulated regions.

Have any of you ever been slightly spooked while flying alone? (And
are you prepared to admit to it?)

Not while flying alone. It is easier to spook your fellow crewmembers. Not
that I would do such a thing, of course, but odd noises, little puffs of
smoke coming out of odd panels, ghost stories on dark spooky nights with St.
Elmo's fire crawling up the windscreen, instrument needles moving in odd
ways: these things are fairly easy to engineer or take advantage of. But as I
say, I would never dream of it. "Um, was that prop flux?" "WHERE?!?" There.
There it was again." "I DIDN'T SEE IT, WHERE?" Things like that seemed to
happen a lot to new command pilots on their first long overwater, for example
-- the "cherry ride."

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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor