FEAR OF FLYING ANYONE?
I do, brings me straight. I dry heave as i go through the tunnel to board the plane...Its an unnatural act that i dont like at all. I love to go on vacation with my family but the thought of getting on a plane makes me ill. Im going to vegas in 3 days and i hate that i have to board a plane. 4 and a half hours....JIVE....This will be my 14th flight and the fear doesnt go away...Any tips???
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While I prefer flying to driving as a matter of convenience, I hate flying and am terrified of take-offs and landings. When the plane is in the air, though, I'm okay. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by spanielsells
While I prefer flying to driving as a matter of convenience, I hate flying and am terrified of take-offs and landings. When the plane is in the air, though, I'm okay.
The whole ride makes me sick!!!!0 -
Contrary to popular belief, no one has ever been killed flying. It's the crashing that gets them.[8D] 0 -
Flying is no more an "unnatural act" than using the internet.
According to the NTSB, every year about 1 out of 6800 American drivers is killed.
In that same year 1 out of about 1.6 MILLION airline passengers dies.
You can roughly figure, and most experts from both industries agree that it is about 200 times safer to fly than it is to drive.
bring a book, a cd player, or an i-pod, and think about all the drunken shenanegan's you'll be getting into once you get to Vegas. On the trip home, try and remember some of the drunken shenanegan's you got into while you were in Vegas.0 -
I wear a helmet just because it makes me feel better. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by spanielsells
While I prefer flying to driving as a matter of convenience, I hate flying and am terrified of take-offs and landings. When the plane is in the air, though, I'm okay.
The Most deadly [xx(] time of the whole flight.0 -
I think psychiatrists have a good success rate for the treatment of fear of flying.
Personally, I love take offs and landings.0 -
Alcohol? Lots of it, maybe?
Valium?0 -
afraid? not me.....[8D] 
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Ask the Dr. for some .5 mg.Xanax. Just takes the edge off and doesn't leave you loopy. Take it about 30 minutes before you take off. Booze will do the same as far as relaxing you but I always felt like crap after the booze wore off on a long flight. Keep drinking? Yeah, I suppose you could if you've got the constitution for it. Why bother? X Factor is a lot cheaper and the results are better. 0 -
I have refused to get back on a plane since I flew home from Nam in 1970. We nearly crashed and I swore if I made it home I'd never fly again. And I haven't. I figure that if God had intended me to fly I would have been born with feathers. 0 -
I'm not afraid of flying.
I just don't have anywhere to go.0 -
Looks like a scene from 'Fandango'.[:D]quote:Originally posted by bobski
afraid? not me.....[8D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
Flying is no more an "unnatural act" than using the internet.
According to the NTSB, every year about 1 out of 6800 American drivers is killed.
In that same year 1 out of about 1.6 MILLION airline passengers dies.
You can roughly figure, and most experts from both industries agree that it is about 200 times safer to fly than it is to drive.
bring a book, a cd player, or an i-pod, and think about all the drunken shenanegan's you'll be getting into once you get to Vegas. On the trip home, try and remember some of the drunken shenanegan's you got into while you were in Vegas.
I wonder what would happen to those numbers if you were to compare the number of actual flights and motor vehicle trips...you would probably get the opposite results. A plane can obviously carry many more passengers than a motor vehicle.[?][?][?]0 -
quote:Originally posted by 41 nut
I have refused to get back on a plane since I flew home from Nam in 1970. We nearly crashed and I swore if I made it home I'd never fly again. And I haven't. I figure that if God had intended me to fly I would have been born with feathers.
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Come on 41...He did give us parachutes![;)]0 -
if you have a loose seatbelt and an open door, this is what happens....[8D] 0 -
The first time I went flying I was 3 days old and we hopped into my Grandfathers 680 Aero Commander to go have lunch in Catalina. My dad used to run a airshow team that performed all over California, Arizona and Navada, after every show I would fly back in someone else's plane. One week it would be a SNJ-5 or a Sterman, the next would be a B-25 or a Long-Eze with Dick Rutan flying. I have never been afraid to fly in anything till my first ride in a airliner, I was scared to death. The reason? I didn't know or trust the pilot. 0 -
I get up in the morning and that is as high as I care to be all day. Being in a plane just gives you a very helpless feeling if any thing was to go wrong. Don't even like to be on the roof of the house and some movies even make me look away. 0 -
I love to fly and I love to fly![:D] 0 -
MK19,
Lucky boy.
It's not the fall that gets you, it's the sudden stop.0 -
photo credit: andy keech. 1982. you empty the pesticide tank real good and fill it with humans instead. pop the lid and crawl out. use to do this in fresno in the 80's myself. 0 -
quote:MK19,
Lucky boy.
Yes, I can say that I had a great childhood and it always made great conversation back at school. Someone would ask a question like "what did you do this weekend?" Most of the other kids would say "we went out to dinner on Saturday and watched football on Sunday". I would say "I flew up to a air show in Paso Robles with Dennis Sanders in his Hawker Sea Fury on Friday. While I was there I also got to fly in AirWolf (from the TV series) a Wilga and a Waco UPF-7. Then I flew back home on Sunday with Bob Hoover in his Aero Commander, he even rolled it for me". The other kids never believe me till I started bringing pictures.
On the other hand we also lost 12 pilots in one year, all of them were men I looked up to and would often fly with. That can be hard on a 10 year old kid.0 -
Some of you guys would do well to fly on San Diego's own Wee Bee.
Watch the ad and then hang on!
http://video.nbcsandiego.com/player/?id=122619
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Not usually a fear of flying that most folks have, its a control issue. Although your chance of expiration in an automoble accident is much higher, your fate is generally in your hands. In a mass transit vehicle you lose that sense of control which feeds the fear that leads to the heaves. Get your pilot's license at any small airstrip and feel the power!! 0 -
I used to fly for a living. I'm afraid of heights. Go figure. Joe
PS..to mk19..I've never been in a Sea Fury. Is it louder than a B-25? The B-25 used to ring my ears (on the occasions when I had no headset).0 -
My brother and I were talking about acceptance of death and he quoted some comedian or another,
"What if I'm at 30,000 feet and it's the pilot's time to go?"
I got a huge kick out of that.0 -
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quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
Flying is no more an "unnatural act" than using the internet.
According to the NTSB, every year about 1 out of 6800 American drivers is killed.
In that same year 1 out of about 1.6 MILLION airline passengers dies.
You can roughly figure, and most experts from both industries agree that it is about 200 times safer to fly than it is to drive.
bring a book, a cd player, or an i-pod, and think about all the drunken shenanegan's you'll be getting into once you get to Vegas. On the trip home, try and remember some of the drunken shenanegan's you got into while you were in Vegas.
I wonder what would happen to those numbers if you were to compare the number of actual flights and motor vehicle trips...you would probably get the opposite results. A plane can obviously carry many more passengers than a motor vehicle.
ECC- Your unprovable theory has absolutely nothing to add to dkb2003's fear of flying being justified or not. And anyone that thinks they are safer behind the wheel than in the hands of an FAA controlled commercial aircraft is never going to be able to actually PROVE it.0 -
quote:PS..to mk19..I've never been in a Sea Fury. Is it louder than a B-25? The B-25 used to ring my ears (on the occasions when I had no headset).
When any thing gets to be that loud it is really hard to tell the difference and to tell you the truth I never really paid attention to the noise, after all I was just a kid. It is a totally different sound than the B-25 though. With the B-25 the sound was very dependant upon your seating position, it was much quieter in the nose than in the waist, but the tail wasn't that bad. In the Sea Fury all of the noise was straight in your face. It was very similar to a T-6, just much more extreme. I never did have a chance to ride in the Super Sea Fury that the Sander's built for Reno, that one had a 4000 HP R-4360.0 -
Mk19...must've been tons of fun crawling over the spar to get to the back. I only did that a few times.
R4460? those 28 cylinders must have made a racket. In reality, too slow revving for competition. Unless they geared the prop. Imagine changing 56 spark-plugs? [:0][:0]0 -
quote:Mk19...must've been tons of fun crawling over the spar to get to the back. I only did that a few times.
R4460? those 28 cylinders must have made a racket. In reality, too slow revving for competition. Unless they geared the prop. Imagine changing 56 spark-plugs?
At the age of 10 or 11 it's never much of a bother to climb around a B-25[:p] I do remember how cramped the tunnel was to get into the nose, I was 5' @ 100 Lbs at the time and I couldn't believe that full grown men could make it through there.
Here is a link with a bit of info on the Super Sea Fury,
http://warbirdaeropress.com/articles/Dreadnought/2/Dreadnought2.htm
It's the second one down:
http://www.eagle.ca/~harry/aircraft/fury/reno.htm
I remember the first day they flew that thing, it was just bear metal and a beautaful site to behold. It was a hot day in chino with the temps in the 105 deg range, even the honey bees would hide in your soda can to keep cool. I also cought hives from playing in the weeds behind the shop that day and I was out of school for a week.0
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