My fear is not knowing what might happen and not being in control of it I guess, I do enjoy the actual flight just not the fear of what might happen.Once you get on the plane and sit down you'll be fine. If you have to shut the window, although I would never do that because I love flying, you can.
What scares you? Taking off? Landing? Do you have a fear of "what might happen"? Heights?
Or everything about flying?
I wouldn't worry about domestic flights they are very safe, and remember if something goes wrong the pilot's life is also at risk. Your pilot will do anything and everything to land safely, even if that means landing in water.I'll usually just listen to music or watch a movie. Once I get on the plane I am fine, but I hate thinking about what might happen.
Also, the pilots are trained professionals with thousands of hours behind them, there are no better people for the job at hand.
Air travel is fantastically safe. Over the past five years, there’s been exactly one fatal crash of a U.S. airplane. In the 1999-2008 period there was roughly one fatality per 10 billion miles traveled. The death rate for car travel was 72 times higher. Think about what kind of discount you’d want if a gate attendant asked you to swap your flight for one leaving five minutes later that’s only half as safe as the original plane. Then double that risk again. Then again. Then again. Then twice more. That plane’s still safer than driving an equivalent distance.
If you never do something because of what might happen, you'll never do anything.Once I get on the plane I am fine, but I hate thinking about what might happen.
Has anyone else on GTP had this? I seem to not ne able to get over it. I have flown twice before but not recently. Anyone have any way I can get over it? I have to fly to Texas in September for WEC.![]()
You have a bigger chance of dying from the drive to the airport than an actual plane crash.
Yeah, it's all fun and games and nice theories until you hit a huge air pocket or spend most of the ride under strong turbulence.I've never sat in a plane before though.
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On a plane though? I just don't sense it. I mean, you're not really "flying" if you think about it. You don't feel the wind since you're in an enclosed space, and you don't really feel like you're off the ground since your feet are still grounded on a large platform. All you do is sit in a chair. The pilot does all the driving. No different from sitting in a bus. You relax in the vehicle and pass time until you reach your destination.
Fear of "flying".
Fear of crashing - rational
Aerophobia - irrational
I wonder how many people who are scared of flying are actually scared of humans taking flight rather than plummeting from 30,000ft. The second is perfectly understandable, and would obviously deter you from wanting to fly. But it's not a fear of the actual flight itself.
I have a fear of drowning, but I don't have aquaphobia; I'm not scared of water.
/Deputy Regional Non-Executive Director Of The Pedantic Society
Has anyone else on GTP had this? I seem to not ne able to get over it. I have flown twice before but not recently. Anyone have any way I can get over it? I have to fly to Texas in September for WEC.![]()
You get on the plane and fly. You're actually fearing it during the anticipation stage.
...and during the flight, and while you're at your destination thinking about the return flight, and during the return flight.
That's only my point of view; having conquered my early fear of flying (and eventually having qualified) I found the experience to be different.
That said... I cannot go in the sea, even my local North Sea for a swim because of my utterly utterly irrational fear of sharks. It's true, stupid and illogical. But there. And incurable, however many times I try, as soon as I'm a few meters out the "shark warnings" begin in my head. Freshwater's okay, just the sea.
I blame the parent-of-a-friend who let me watch Jaws when I was 5 :\
There are a lot of ways to experience fear, and a lot of different things to focus your fear on when it comes to air travel, so I'm sure many people are different.
Are you afraid of being killed by a shark? Or just afraid of sharks. For example, if you were at an aquarium and saw a shark behind glass....
Yeah, it's all fun and games and nice theories until you hit a huge air pocket or spend most of the ride under strong turbulence.
It's then, at that moment, that all good sense and rationalization goes out the window - at that's a 30,000 feet-high window.
I've never seen a Great White shark in real life but even the thought of seeing them in aquaria is scary.
I can understand the fear of flying a hang glider because of how you could drop to your own death if you so much as let go of the contraption.....
It's the same physics that let's you know exactly how to make them safe.I think if you realize the physics behind flying in a commercial airliner fear is a very natural reaction.
I love traveling, but I always die a thousand deaths in commercial airplanes.
Great White shark in an aquaria? Nah.![]()