afraid to fly

[Reschke]

If you can imagine that you are flying WW2 planes on a computer then you can get on that bigger REAL PLANE!

Now get your butt on that plane and have some cocktails in flight!

[CptTrips]

Fuggit.  Everybody gotta die of sumptin.

Wab

[Tac]

Originally posted by Raubvogel:



Why do you think God put Pubs in airports?  

To make the stewardess's look more attractive.

Past 4 years ive yet to see a good looking one. Seems I get the Hag Flights  

[Curval]

The similarity between a cow-pie and a British Airways stewie...the older they get the easier they are to pick up!

[rosco-]

Just do it man. Get on the plane and think about something else and once she starts moving its too late  

 I have a fear of the water. I can swim but just barely. On vacation there was a coral reef that I wanted to check out.  But the water between there and where I was was over my head and I couldnt muster up the courage to go snorkeling over. After surveying it in the canoe the day before I just said to hell with it, and started swimming.  And well, im still here typing this so I guess it went ok   though i was a bit tired and sore the rest of the day. It wasnt that it was that far, its just I swam that slow  
 
 Just get the ticket and walk on the plane. Sit your butt down close your eyes and go for it. Once you in the air its pretty much like being on the ground, pretty smooth but with a bit of turbulence every once and a while. And dont to like my buddy "who was also nervous about flying" and stare at the wings as you take off and climb to altitude. I wish I had a camera to snap a shot of the look of terror on his face as the wing tips creeped higher and higher   He would look out the window and then turn his head survey the rest of the passengers as if to see if anyone else shared his concern, then look out the window for another few mins. It was priceless.

[funkedup]

Loser just get drunk.  It's really hard to be anxious when you are drunk.

[Sunchaser]

Hmmm....wonder why she picked a school so far away?

[Animal]

cc on getting drunk.
it WILL work.

And dont worry, I wont think you are a popsicle because of your dumb fear of flying, and your fear to see your girlfriend.

[Duckwing6]

If you're afraid to fly, try it yourselfe!

Seriously, go to the next local airfield and take a few lessons.

Best cure i know (i know a few people who did it actually...)

Cheers
DW6

[Dago]

In the past year, I have taken probably at least 40 airline rides, including about 12 or more international trips.  Flown to China with Air China, Malaysia with Air Malaysia, and a bunch of other airlines.  

If you wanted to die in an airline crash, it would be impossible to do.  Its just too safe.  I work for an airline, have worked for one for 16 years.  Worked in Tech Ops, worked in Flight Ops.  I have audited many other airlines.  It is unbelievable safe, so much goes on you never see to make sure of it, you would be amazed.

I get on planes now, dont even think about any bad stuff, cause I know its not gonna happen.  I just enjoy the view.  I have flown over the pyramids in Egypt, flown over Iceland as the sun rose, flown over the Alps at sunset.  There has never been a crash where a commercial airline pilot just blew a landing by himself.  

To quote as close as I can remember what Helen Keller said:

"Life is a great adventure, or it is nothing at all"

Who would want to miss all the great adventures in life because of irrational fear?  Conquer the fear, challenge yourself, make your time and your life count.  Better to die with great memories than live a life of regrets.

This last year among other things, I have walked the streets and back alleys of Bejing, and rode in a glider in the Alps peforming aerobatics, toured the Red Light district of Amsterdam, visited the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur. If I let a fear of flying stop me I would have missed all these things.

Go fly, live and enjoy yourself.

Dago

[mrfish]

Originally posted by loser:

how did you guys get over your fear of flying?

...by doing power-on stalls in a plane older than me, somewhere over yolo county  


ps - ditto what wab said as well!

[Durr]

I agree with what some of the others have said.  The best way to overcome a fear of something is by doing it.  Everybody has things they are afraid of.  I personally have never been afraid to fly but I was always afraid of the water when I was younger. Part of it was because I didnt learn to swim until I was in college.  Even after I learned to swim I was still afraid to swim in the ocean though.  The way I conquered that was simply by swimming in the ocean.  The more you do something, the less frightening it becomes.  Remember that most fears are irrational anyway.  Sharks almost never kill anybody in the ocean and people rarely die in airline crashes.  Things that you should really be afraid of like driving, (highway accidents kill something like 50,000 each year in US I think it is) hardly even bother us.  Again, this is because we do it so much we dont even think about it.  I logged about 9 hours last week in four flights and the only nervousness I felt was over grades.

[Dux]

You would be better off if you realized that it's not a fear of flying... it's a fear of crashing.

As long as you're flying, there's no problem.

It's mind over matter, Loser.

I wish I could relate to your fears better (but I'm glad that I don't)    

[loser]

i think my problem is the lack of control

i cant stand being in the passenger's seat in a car. I cant stand being in seat 12 A in a plane.

perhaps i would just have to pretend i can hit 4 at anytime and blow the bellybutton off of the con on my 6

but anyhoo thx alot guys for the tips, some of them (especially the get ripped one) have helped.

 

[loser]

btw it is not a fear of heights.  a buddy and me got drunk once and climbed a 806 foot radio tower.  It took us two hours and we both puked at the top (from exhaustion) but the height didnt bother me.

i have the red plane light globes to prove the climb, just dont tell the FAA