Scared stiff of flying!!!

Flying is meh, kinda boring. Takeoff and landing, now that's more fun! :D

Flew into Chambery a few years ago and I swear the co-pilot landing it thought the runway was another 5 ft below, BANG! :D
 
BigglesPiP said:
I have seen around 5 people who are scared of flying effectively cured by one simple method, a flight in a light aircraft. It's much nicer when you have an all-round view rather than a porthole. Consider an experience flight before getting into an airliner again? You'll even get to fly the plane!
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Didn't work for me. I went microlighting about 10 years before I took a commercial airline flight and was still very uneasy about it.

My advice is just sit straight with hands on legs and concentrate on deep breathing during take off and landing (and 'turbulence'), they are the only times you will experience strange sensations really.
 
i always sit over the wings next to the window. love watching everything work. come from an aviation background so im a bit of a geek lol. love seeing the change of the cockpits over the years. was all buttons and leavers when i was a kid. now all touch screens and far less button.
 
Flying is fine as said before it's sarcastically less dangerous than most forms of transport

I remember flying home from the states in the summer and the announcer on the tannoy said that we were making an emergency landing into Heathrow. Everyone crapped themselves only to have one of the flight attendants that it was a medical emergency and not a fault with the plane.. phew!
 
A weird thing I'm starting to find is that the more I fly the more I am wary of it. I'm knocking on having taken 300 flights now and I think as the novelty has worn into inconvenience, nervousness starts to escalate.
 
You can fall out the loft and die!
You can slip and fall and die!
You can drive and die!
You can get on a train and die!
You can get on a boat and die!
You can game too much and die!
You can drink too much water and die!
You can choke and die!
You can cross the road and die!
You can swim and die!
You can have sex and die!
You can get on a plane and die!
You can ........... need I go on !! :rolleyes:

All the above have happened in real life!!!

The fear is totally irrational because you cannot fly! Its simple you can swim, you can force your way out of things you can do many things, but 33,000ft up your up .... creek without a paddle! :p

Thats the fear any other disaster you can imagine an escape route out, but at 33,000ft with your guts in your head !!! Oh no I will die!! :eek:

Chill it aint going to happen !!! :cool:
 
I hate flying but to be honest only thing you can do once you have payed for it is man up and accept it it is what i had to do in september on flight to orlando i hated it even had my kids taking the mickey out of me as they and the misses loved it.

Did not help that we had turbulence the most of the flight and near landing lost altitude rapidly through storm cloud kids thought it was like a warm up ride before disney world and all complained that the return flight was nice and smooth.

If the holiday had been free i would have ran away like a scared girl also the unlimited drinks on the flight helped a lot thanks virgin

I never had any fear of flying until i had kids now i spend to much time weighing up the pros and cons of everything
 
!bluetonic! said:
Don't be scared.

Aviation has so many failsafes for our own safety.

If one engine cuts out, the plane can still fly and land with one.
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Along those lines:

A skilled pilot can do a surprisingly good job of flying a plane without any working engines at all. They are remarkably safe nowadays and glide a lot better than most people would expect from something weighing hundreds of tonnes. From a standard cruising altitude of a large passenger aircraft, you could probably get as much as 100 miles of gliding range, which will very likely be enough to get you to a usable runway.

They can also fly and land without a pilot, so you're covered both ways.

You'll also have at least two pilots and other safety precautions such as them being required to eat different food (to cover the unlikely possibility of food poisoning).

They have safety precautions for the safety precautions.

You might find it helpful to check this for yourself, to strengthen your rational understanding of the degree of risk involved in flying (which is minimal - it's the least risky way to travel any significant distance). That might help you gain some control over the irrational part of your fear of flying.

It would probably be a good idea to make sure you don't have a window seat. It's much easier to ignore the fact that you're in the sky if you can't see it a foot away :)

I've spoken to a few people who were disappointed with flying because it was mundane. They were expecting it to be different to other transport and it wasn't really. Sure, you're travelling at 550 mph at 35,000 feet, but there's no tangible indication of it. There's less sense of motion than there is in a train.

But it's a common phobia and you can get medical advice about it and possibly, if it's advisable, suitable prescription drugs. It would be a good idea to see your doctor for advice.
 
Cheers guys for your input.

I will see the do. Before I go. Will buy some headphones and plug into my phone and make sure lots of music on it. Plus read to take mind off it.

Probably the hardest bit for me is the build up to it.

I remember when I went to USA 20+ years ago and stood at the window looking at the 747 I was going on and nearly crapped myself! Lol
 
You will die 100% guarantee it.
Worst bit ap[art from dying is the uncontrollable air pressure changes in you ears that will make you cry like a girl.
RIP bro.
 
My missus tears herself apart, pretty much more than any state I think you could get yourself into, £65 on ipod mp3's and all sorts of malarky. And I'll say to you what I say to her, it's a plane, it gets you to a destination. Get on, sit down, don't react, act normal, breathe. When you land, laugh at yourself and think how much of an idiot you've been.
By the way, your no more or less an idiot than the rest of us.

Drop the whole thing, and do yourself a favour and drop the build up.
 
helmet said:
My missus tears herself apart, pretty much more than any state I think you could get yourself into, £65 on ipod mp3's and all sorts of malarky. And I'll say to you what I say to her, it's a plane, it gets you to a destination. Get on, sit down, don't react, act normal, breathe. When you land, laugh at yourself and think how much of an idiot you've been.
By the way, your no more or less an idiot than the rest of us.

Drop the whole thing, and do yourself a favour and drop the build up.
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Just to add, you ain't that important, if you died, well you died. Sack it all, why worry?
 
I hate flying with a passion and it scares the life out of me. Being an ex Aircraft engineer for 16 years does not help. Knowing what all the noises are and not being allowed in the cockpit to keep an eye on things is hell.
 
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