>>42481142
I've been on a lot of airplanes in my life and I'll tell you what I told a friend who recently asked me this before his first flight because he was nervous: It's boring as shit.
Takeoff is fun because after you get taxi'd around for 10 minutes at a snails pace the runway run is like a normal car acceleration for a bit and then suddenly the engines kick in and you book it. You see the ground peeling away and it's neat.
And then you're in the air, and the world is too far away to move fast enough to be interesting. You're just in a humming, vibrating tube for a few hours and nothing happens and nothing outside changes very fast.
>But what about clouds? We'll be flying through big puffs of whip cream and watching it stream around the wings and leave neat wakes and stuff right?
It turns out the neat features on clouds are massive and only visible from far away. Up close, clouds are gray, featureless fog. When you're inside a cloud, the window is solid gray and a bit of moisture builds up on it, there are no interesting swirls. Just rewatch Aladdin if you want cloud magic.
Then you land which is a bit spooky right before the wheels hit runway, and then you quickly slow down and that's it besides an insufferably long time spent wheeling into the terminal and waiting for arcane airport stuff to happen. Then everybody tries to disembark at once and clog the lane like retards, and eventually you're free to wait half an hour for your luggage to show up on the conveyor belt.
Flying sucks. If you're hopeful, lower your expectations. If you're nervous, hold on to that feeling because it's the most hype you'll get.
