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Really? What did they say?
Scared stiff of flying!!!
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Really? What did they say?
Soldato
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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.
And if you crash and burn, the forensic investigation conclusions from your crash will make our flights safer.
Hope that makes you feel better.
Aviation has so many failsafes for our own safety.
If one engine cuts out, the plane can still fly and land with one.
And if you crash and burn, the forensic investigation conclusions from your crash will make our flights safer.
Hope that makes you feel better.
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It made people nervous. To be fair there were around 30 of us on a skydiving holiday to California, we were going to be quite lively in behaviour anyway, but that wasn't it. It just wasn't fair on other passengers really.
We also had to carry an "x-ray card" owing to officials mistaking the automatic activation device that parachutes contain to activate the spare parachute as an explosive.
http://www.cypres.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164&Itemid=116&lang=en
To be honest it is more hassle than it's worth and means you cannot carry anything else and it's a pain.
I think that people's fears are mainly due to the fact that, although more people die in car and train crashes each year worldwide, statistically you're more likely to die if you're in an accident on a plane (even though that accident is itself quite unlikely).
I personally have never had "the fear" although I've certainly been afraid on individual occasions for one reason or another. You're naturally apprehensive of the unknown but I'd bet that your first flight will completely eliminate your fears for the second flight.
Flying is great!
I personally have never had "the fear" although I've certainly been afraid on individual occasions for one reason or another. You're naturally apprehensive of the unknown but I'd bet that your first flight will completely eliminate your fears for the second flight.
Flying is great!
And if all else fails, as long as you adopt the brace position you'll be perfectly fine when the plane hits the ground like a ****ing dart at terminal velocity.
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Mind over matter.. pull yourself together.
One of my favourite quotes..
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
One of my favourite quotes..
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
I too have a fear of flying and am due to fly out to Frankfurt in May but am more worried at the moment about the prospect of having to drive from the Midlands to Glasgow at the end of this month.
But it's not until you've put yourself into these stressful situations and conquered them that you will overcome it.
But it's not until you've put yourself into these stressful situations and conquered them that you will overcome it.
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If you live driving Midlands to Glasgow, I'm sure you'll be fine with flying to Frankfurt
If you live driving Midlands to Glasgow, I'm sure you'll be fine with flying to Frankfurt
Oh I dunno, Frankfurt is a bit grim.
I've always been fine and been on a good few hundred flights in my life, until we flew into Christchurch NZ in October. THE worst and bumpiest flight EVER. The pilot took us out to the ocean and came in from that side to reduce turbulence but it barely helped. I was stressing big time and my girlfriend, on her 10th flight ever, laughing at my discomfort. Thanks babe.
That and a full cavity search by customs...
It's more fun if you turn up with a bunch of sex toys in your hand luggage.
"Statistically safer" doesn't mean a great deal. I'm more likely to die in a car than in an aeroplane, sure - but that's only because I spend vastly more time in a car than in a plane.
Aeroplanes are fairly reliable though. The old A320's and similar have been going for ages now so are unlikely to suddenly develop catastrophic faults. The new carbon fibres ones are more worrying because the failure modes of carbon fibre are nasty, but a lot of effort is going into making them reliable.
Helicopters on the other hand - I simply won't fly in one. Whatever numbers people show me. Too unstable in flight.
Aeroplanes are fairly reliable though. The old A320's and similar have been going for ages now so are unlikely to suddenly develop catastrophic faults. The new carbon fibres ones are more worrying because the failure modes of carbon fibre are nasty, but a lot of effort is going into making them reliable.
Helicopters on the other hand - I simply won't fly in one. Whatever numbers people show me. Too unstable in flight.
Jeremy Usborne: Don't worry. Zahra says we have only one fear to fear, and that's fear itself. It's a clever saying, isn't it?
Mark Corrigan: And what about losing all your money? Or ******** yourself in public? Or the tabloid press mistakenly outing you as a paedo? Or Alzheimer's? Or all of those things, plus you're drowning?
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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!