Anyone else here have a problem with flying?

Type in "black box recordings" on google and then listen to some of them, your guaranteed to get over your fear that way.
I'm not a great flyer but I find if you have someone to talk to on a side then that helps me get through the flight.
 
Am I the only one who finds turbulence and stuff cool? :D

Had a pretty rough ride from Miami - Colombia recently (stormy weather) and it was great fun until it gave me a headache and the pilot rammed the plane into the runway :p
 
I've watched all that Air Crash Investigation stuff as well. I was never really scared of flying in the first place - just a bit nervous from time to time - but I think the programmes have actually helped, because I've seen some of the crazy situations which pilots have managed to escape from and land the plane without loss of life.
 
I too have developed an odd fear to flying. After starting my graduate job after uni and notching up around 20 odd flights in 18 months - I was fine on these. Justa little bit aprehensive before takeoff but nothing major.

Now however (only fly to go on holiday now) the anxiety starts weeks, if not months before a flight! I am now getting to the stage where I dont want to go on a plane again either! However I still require to visit Canada on holiday before I can hang up airplanes altogether - and that I will!
 
im flying to iceland in july... a 9pm flight... anyone else been? are the flights ok? Please oh god do not say it is very turbulent :(

the only flying i like is where there is little to no turbulence and there is NO problems at all. (and only for 2 hrs maximum)

i dont mind landing (because at least i can see the ground) takeoffs are bearable i guess(cept for the G forces and ears popping)...but i hate turbulence.



otherwise i willl freak out on the plane... :(

think i might head to the docs to get smt before i fly
 
flying doesn't bother me I just get really bad travel sickness on planes and it's knowing how ill i'm going to be that ruins the entire experience and stops me going on longer flights.
 
The first few times I flew I loved it, the whole experience was great, even checking in was a novelty, now I've flown a bit more most of the process bores me, especially the more rigorous (and stupid) security checks that you have to go through.

The thing that always makes me grin stupidly is the acceleration as you are heading towards takeoff, I like the window seat for watching the ground disappearing ever more rapidly and I doubt I'll ever quite get over the improbability of being in a giant metal tube with a couple of wings and 4 donking big jet engines strapped on them somehow propelling you into the air.
 
I quite like flying, if something does go wrong there's nothing you can do anyway.

My first ever time in a plane was a Cessna 152 tin can when I was 16 so large jets aren't really an issue :p
 
Lysander said:
Me too. I love the final part of the descent, landing, seeing the flaps go up and feeling the plane brake. Best part of the whole thing.
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You clearly haven't heard of runway overshoots, there was one the other day i think, in which loads of people were burned to death in a hellish fireball.

So next time you can't hold your exitement to applaud the flight crew, wait untill the aircraft is safely parked at the gate and the seatbelt lights are off.
 
If your so scared of dying, you might as well lock yourself in quarantine and drink liquified food all your life.
 
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asim18 said:
If your so scared of dying, you might as well lock yourself in quarantine and drink liquified food all your life.
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You could do but then how is the body going to occupy itself, you've got a chance that it will simply start attacking itself as the immune system looks for something to fight off.

Remember two points here. One, people often have a phobia about flying, phobia being defined as an irrational fear so it isn't usually a simple case of saying "well the chances of being in an accident are minute" - they are statistically but that doesn't always mean that other people can process this and the consequences are usually much more serious when it does go wrong. Two, there is a difference between knowing and evaluating the risks compared to the benefits and just staying in for fear of doing anything else - some people who refuse to fly will travel in other modes of transport and see far more on the journey than you will simply hopping from airport to airport.
 
Raikiri said:
Yeah, but then you'd be a boring sod that never went anywhere ;)
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There are plenty of other methods of travel that don't require people to fly, all of which I have no issues with, Sure certain destinations are undoubtedly out of the question but its moot anyway as I wouldn't enjoy being there anyway due to the problems the thought of the return flight would cause.
 
Surfer said:
im flying to iceland in july... a 9pm flight... anyone else been? are the flights ok? Please oh god do not say it is very turbulent :(

the only flying i like is where there is little to no turbulence and there is NO problems at all. (and only for 2 hrs maximum)

i dont mind landing (because at least i can see the ground) takeoffs are bearable i guess(cept for the G forces and ears popping)...but i hate turbulence.



otherwise i willl freak out on the plane... :(

think i might head to the docs to get smt before i fly
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Have flown to Iceland from Gatwick, took 3 hours but as you're in Scotland already yours is probably 1.5-2 hours long. Not sure if it is always that way but our flight was completely smooth all the way there and back, not a murmur of turbulance.

I think it might be that the temperature difference between here and Iceland is not that much, whereas when you go long haul or to the Med/Greece etc you get a lot of variation which creates turbulance (I think).
 
I took my first plane ride April 28th & I thought it was so cool, when it landed the first time my upper neck area/ears hurt a lot. The trip back, when it was time to land, I chewed some gum & I was fine.
 
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