I'm scared s~~~less of flying

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

I’m not looking forward to the fight back to the UK. I hate being stuck in those huge passenger planes. Long flying tube of doom.

It’s also uncomfortable as f~~~ and no amount of alcohol helps. I’ve only had one peaceful flight where I slept like a baby for most of the 12 hours on one of the two flights.

But I always wake up in a cold sweat having an anxiety attack.

I convince myself that someone on board has a bomb or the planes engines is gunna fail or the plane f~~~ing crashes or something. Any slight bit of turbulence and I think this is it, im gunna die. LOL.

I just feel helpless in that stuffy long tube of doom. The flight never seems to end and its so f~~~ing boring.

Anyone else hate flying?

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Now if i was in a 2 man fighter jet i wouldn’t be scared at all. I just hate being trapped and stuck on a huge passenger airliner. Since 9/11 i am paranoid as f~~~ and cant get macabre and unsettling images out of my head while onboard.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Talk to your doctor. There is a pill for that.

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[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Talk to your doctor. There is a pill for that.

I wonder if lorazepam or valium will help. I just want to be completely unconscious for the entire flight, that would be amazing. But sleeping upright in a f~~~ing chair is bulls~~~.

[Anonymous 42]

I’m scared s~~~less of flying too, and I know how!

Seriously, those aircraft are inspected top to bottom and parts are replaced according to flight hours regardless of wear and tear, and with modern communications even a surprise volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds will not catch aircraft by surprise, all the worries are ironed out like never before, If cars were maintained as safely as aircraft you would have to live 10,000 years and drive 10,000 miles a day and still you would never see a mechanical failure or pilot error!

You are safer flying than sitting at home!

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

I hate airports too. I hate the whole f~~~ing process of flying. Checking in, getting on and off the plane, storing your s~~~ overhead, sitting next to some annoying c~~~ etc. After the 23 hours of traveling half way across the world, I feel like s~~~ and just want to sleep horizontally on a nice bed.

[Anonymous 42]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I hate airports too. I hate the whole f~~~ing process of flying. Checking in, getting on and off the plane, storing your s~~~ overhead, sitting next to some annoying c~~~ etc. After the 23 hours of traveling half way across the world, I feel like s~~~ and just want to sleep horizontally on a nice bed.

Can’t do anything for jetlag, that f~~~s me up too! Worse than most!

[trader1913Participant 1577]

Flying is extremely safe. I hate flying because i get the worse case of blocked ears, they often last for several days for me.

[Anonymous 11]

I know a few guys that are scared of flying. Trust the technology. There is an entire system dedicated to keeping you safe in the air. I only fly general aviation on my client’s dime these days. No TSA groping or stealing s~~~ out of my bags type stuff. You get treated like an actual human too at the terminal.

I usually get to sit in the co-pilot’s seat and watching professional pilots live in action while listening to ATC in flight made me feel a lot safer about being in the air. You don’t get to experience that on a commercial flight.

My friends that are scared s~~~less to fly freak whenever they learn I’m heading out for a job in a Cessna 182 or Piper Navajo. I laugh at them and taunt.

You’ll be fine, man.

I’m scared s~~~less of Sea Kayaking out of respect for the sea and know how to do it safely. Fear is part of life. Facing your fears is healthy.

[Anonymous 3]

DYD,
You are more likely to be killed by a brick, than by an aircraft accident. And if your issue is with terrorism, then then you will probably get a double brick death before witnessing any terrorist incident.

What I think you might have is claustrophobia, and it would also explain a bit your problem with banks and supermarkets.

I am a bit claustrophobic myself, nothing much, but when I did a MRI it was very uncomfortable. But if they where to bind me for the MRI, then I would go nuts!

The thing is, claustrophobia is not “only” a fear of small spaces, but is mostly a fear of having no escape, of being restricted.

The same way, agoraphobia is not “only” a fear of open spaces, as it is a fear of having no control.

What I think might help you is the realisation that you will suffer more for the anticipation of what you fear, than the thing you fear in itself.

Just like in the Ghost Dog quote of the hagakure, a samurai would familiarise itself with death to overcome the fear of death:

[AutoliteParticipant]

I’m scared s~~~less of flying

Well, before you strap in, go up to the c~~~pit and quiz the pilot on what all the buttons, gauges, switches and control levers do.

If he gets any of the questions wrong, just get off and try another plane…

[Repulsive RalfParticipant 356]

Anonymous wrote:

I’m scared s~~~less of flying too, and I know how!

Seriously, those aircraft are inspected top to bottom and parts are replaced according to flight hours regardless of wear and tear, and with modern communications even a surprise volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds will not catch aircraft by surprise, all the worries are ironed out like never before, If cars were maintained as safely as aircraft you would have to live 10,000 years and drive 10,000 miles a day and still you would never see a mechanical failure or pilot error!

You are safer flying than sitting at home!

Some are, some are not, fortunately the worst airlines are banned from flying in the EU.
Here is a list of good and bad airlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/The-worlds-safest-airlines-revealed/
I have heard its best to avoid Nigerian airlines

[Anonymous 42]

^^^The rooster in the background is hilarious!

[IceBankMiceElfParticipant 124]

Do what I do…I look around and see who I’m going to eat first if the plane crashes and I have to survive!

[Anonymous 3]

IceBankMiceElf wrote:

I look around and see who I’m going to eat first if the plane crashes

Do you have time for that?

[AutoliteParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

Seriously, those aircraft are inspected top to bottom and parts are replaced according to flight hours regardless of wear and tear.

I can attest to that. I spent most of my adult life around aircraft and as maintainer, there was never ever any time that we had any left over parts after completion of a major overhaul and we never once ended up with a few miscellaneous remaining parts or pieces that we didn’t know what they were for or where they would go.

Well, almost never, you know, for the most part…

[TuneoutParticipant]

IceBankMiceElf wrote:

Do what I do…I look around and see who I’m going to eat first if the plane crashes and I have to survive!

Depending on what countries most of your fellow passengers are from,you could feast for a year while waiting to be rescued,lol

Lifes a bitch,but you don't have to marry one!

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9548]

I haven’t flown since June 1998 (before 9/11). My big problem then was take offs and landings, because I don’t like the feel of the motion. I’m the same way with carnival rides. You won’t get me onto a roller coaster, because I don’t like the intensity of the speed. On a plane, I’m scared and shaking unless I’m at the top leveled off, then I’m fine.

I don’t know what flying is like since 9/11, but I hear people say that it’s horrible and a pain in the ass from arrival to destination. What bothers me now is the terrorism and all the news reports you hear time to time about planes going down.

Believe it or not, I haven’t left the State of Illinois since August 2000. I’m just not a traveling type. I’m happy when I get to the other end, but I’m not a traveling type. I don’t even like driving or car rides, because I keep thinking I’m not going to make it to the other end.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[Repulsive RalfParticipant 356]

I too used to be an aircraft mechanic.
One job I had to do was bolt armour around a gas turbine engine, Napier Gazelle maybe?, these engines had a tendency to let go of their compressor blades at high RPM, the blades would shoot out with such centrifugal force that they would pass through the engine casing, through the fabric of the aircraft, and then through all the passengers. Nice.
The armour would stop all those very many blades so all the passengers then had to worry about was how to continue flying in a helicopter with no functioning engine.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

Flying is relatively safe.

I just prefer to get out at about 12k feet whenever I’m in a plane.

Landing in a plane is so overrated.

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