RV nightmares....

[Stephen Lindberg]

Reassuring, in a perverse way, to read that others have had the overhead wire nightmare. I thought it was just us old retired crop dusters that had that, but apparently it is a generic pilot nightmare. Incidentally, if you ever have occasion to fly under wires, don't look at the wires. Look at the spot you want to go and aim the airplane there. Ignore the wires. If you look at the wires you might fly up into them. Even when there is room to spare the wires always look like they are going to hit you right under the chin. That's one reason I opted for the slider canopy, it has wire deflection built in.

[David-aviator]

Seems like anyone who has flown has had weird, sometimes scary dreams about it.

I have dreams mostly about dumb stuff like, loosing a nav kit in the middle of a flight, or showing up for work without the required uniform items or flying low down main street where you know the wings will be ripped off.

Where this brain activity comes from is a mystery....sooth sayers have been trying to read something into it for thousands of years. Sometimes people do dream future events, most times not.

RV builders have mostly day time dreams.

[81270]

I found the easy way out in my dream.... piloted a VTOL fighter jet out of a cosmopolitan nightmare of powerlines and tall office buidings. However I had trouble reverse parking it once back on ground.

[6S4 Hugo]

The chicken, or the egg?

Do we pilots have the dream because we are pilots, or are the people who have these dreams destined to become pilots?

I had the wires-in-the-street dream long before I became a pilot, although I always knew that I wanted to fly. I used to also dream that I could fly by jumping. Each time that I would land, by timing perfectly, I would put more energy into each jump and get progressively higher and higher and...

[mannanj]

Originally Posted by 6S4 Hugo

The chicken, or the egg?

Do we pilots have the dream because we are pilots, or are the people who have these dreams destined to become pilots?

I had the wires-in-the-street dream long before I became a pilot, although I always knew that I wanted to fly. I used to also dream that I could fly by jumping. Each time that I would land, by timing perfectly, I would put more energy into each jump and get progressively higher and higher and...

Just when I thought I had this particular dream figured out. (Lots of flying low, dog-fighting amongst the trees etc, etc.) Someone comes along with the same nightmare before he even he learned to fly! Darn!

[turbo]

i had a dream of flying at night among a tree covered victorian house. got my pilots license and the dream stopped.

i had a dream of trying to get through the overhead wire and obstructions. got my helo rating and the dream stopped.

[Moondog]

No power lines, but quite often I try to land a huge, very slow aircraft on a residential street when my central vision goes out. My peripheral vision is ok, but no straight ahead detail. I never lose vision in any other dreams, just this one.

Originally Posted by rmartingt

The worst ones, though, are the ones where I'm back in school . . . and . . . realize that it's finals week and I'm scheduled for a final in a class I never knew I was signed up for.

Exact same dream. For me it's always a math final.

[Bill Phillips]

I've had the powerline and low tree limbs dreams many times. Sometimes I escape above them, sometimes I don't. Maybe we should start talking about primer again? Bill of Georgia, RV-8A

[GaryK]

Me too..........

I haven't had it since I built the RV7A, 6 years and over 1,000 hours.


Gary

[jpowell13]

I used to have the power line dream when I was flying Cherokees. Since I finished the RV the dreams have stopped. I guess my subconscious self knows I can just climb straight up through them now.

When it was time to fit the wings, I moved my fuse out into the carport in full view of from the street where it stayed for more than a year. Noone ever bothered it. That should have caused a few nightmares, but I never had any. We could never move with neighbors like that.