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Roller coasters (and similar rides) aren't my thing so no. I had a negative experience when I was maybe 5-7 years old on Space Mountain, I had no idea it was roller coaster, I just thought the cars looked cool and wanted to get in lol.
And in spite of that, I did once go on an aerobatic ride in a biplane, and no terrestrial ride can compare to that. Just experience a real snap roll once and you're probably good for life lol (I couldn't talk the pilot into doing a tail slide though, he said those are too hard on the plane, yet they seem to be routine at airshows, go figure). I screamed my head off and had a death grip on the exposed aircraft frame inside the cockpit, but after we landed, I wanted to go back up. It was strange. And I wanted to go up the first time badly enough that I lied and said yes, I could obey a command to jump out of the plane and deploy my parachute if we got into an emergency (I have no idea if I would've actually had the presence of mind to do that).
Even take a couple of introductory flying lessons for the hell of it, that's a lot of fun, doing things like takeoffs and landings, stall recovery training, and looking for a field in which to make an emergency landing on your own when the instructor surprises you and cuts the throttle and you start descending and have to start lining the plane up with something.
And in spite of that, I did once go on an aerobatic ride in a biplane, and no terrestrial ride can compare to that. Just experience a real snap roll once and you're probably good for life lol (I couldn't talk the pilot into doing a tail slide though, he said those are too hard on the plane, yet they seem to be routine at airshows, go figure). I screamed my head off and had a death grip on the exposed aircraft frame inside the cockpit, but after we landed, I wanted to go back up. It was strange. And I wanted to go up the first time badly enough that I lied and said yes, I could obey a command to jump out of the plane and deploy my parachute if we got into an emergency (I have no idea if I would've actually had the presence of mind to do that).
Even take a couple of introductory flying lessons for the hell of it, that's a lot of fun, doing things like takeoffs and landings, stall recovery training, and looking for a field in which to make an emergency landing on your own when the instructor surprises you and cuts the throttle and you start descending and have to start lining the plane up with something.





