Fear of flying.

I flew for the first time ever last week.

I wasn't nervous about it, and even if I had been, there would have been absolutely no reasoning for it.

There really isn't much to it, you sit down, you accelerate a bit quick, lift off, a few hours later you land again with a small bump, then you stop.

It's about as easy as it was for me to type, or for you to read that description.
 
Watch the whole backlog of air crash investigation before you go, then you'll feel fine.

I'm not really a fan of flying, I know the statistics are good but it's the whole completely out of your control feeling that gets me, I don't even like being a passenger in a car so I certainly don't like being a passenger in a flying tin can 35000 feet in the air.

Unfortunately I love holidays and have to travel with work so I just try and switch off, fall asleep if possible. Although I only have a dislike of it, I've flown with people who have a genuine fear of it before, unfortunately for them my sick nature and twisted sense of humour resulted in comments which made it worse for them.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;12744686 said:
You mean you've been told the statistics are good and you believe them.

The statistic that flying is safer than driving was put out by, surprise, surprise, the airline industry and people just repeat it like a mantra. Flying is about as safe as driving, no more and no less.
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True, but one way I keep calm is thinking about the thousands of planes that are on the go every day and then when I see the likes of air hostesses I think well they do it pretty much every day and they are still alive so it can't be that dangerous :D
 
You'll be fine, take off is rarely bad, I can't say I've ever experienced a bad take off to be honest, sometimes your ears get that 'popping' feeling, but you just de-pop them, no biggy.

I flown around 6 times this year, maybe more, and not one has been bad really.

Just get on the plane, but your baggage up, sit yourself down, strap yourself in, wait, then listen to the cabin crews briefing thing, take off, hey presto...Sometimes you get turbulence, sometimes you don't, it's just dependent on weather really.

Have fun anyway :)
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
Never happend to me and I've been ****** before and during most flights I've been on
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you must not drink like a scotsman :p

Na it seems to be rare that people get refused to board, but it does happen. It used to happen all the time when my dad was travelling abroad with work, some people with him would get trashed so they'd all pay the price. Also led to many a strip search in customs :eek:
 
Toker said:
you must not drink like a scotsman :p

Na it seems to be rare that people get refused to board, but it does happen. It used to happen all the time when my dad was travelling abroad with work, some people with him would get trashed so they'd all pay the price. Also led to many a strip search in customs :eek:
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This is why you don't get too slaughtered whilst on the ground you've gotta find the line between sober and rowdy
 
Come to Russia... we have safe planes here (well the Russian ones anyway)!

No seriously, if I were you I'd be careful about not getting bored of flying rather than the fear of it. It bores the hell out me these days though I do fly a lot.
 
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