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Flight fear?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 15.9%
  • No

    Votes: 53 84.1%

  • Total voters
    63

imacintel

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Original poster
Mar 12, 2006
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Do you fear flight sometimes. I am most comforatble in the air, and at landing, but takeoff its one of my goals. Sometimes when we start going really fast, I sort of yell in my mind; STOP THE PLANE!

and then the front lifts up and I feel better already.:)
 
No, I'm one of those people who enjoys the rush of takeoff. Still, I do get airsick... but a pill takes care of that. :D

I had an extreme fear of heights, but I started going to the sky observatory near my house and now I can handle it. On the plane, it never felt bad.

My fear of Windows, though, doesn't seem like it will be cured any time soon. :p




irmongoose
 
Yes.... Though I have nevr flown, I don't have any intention to anytime soon. I know everyones says "It's much safer then driving", but at least with driving I have SOME control over my life and what happnes to me, what am I susposed to do 5 miles up in the air if the plane starts to crash???
 
I get massive headaches when the plane comes in to land (if I'm on the plane, of course) but I still like flying. It's weird because I don't normally 'do' headaches.
 
Please, if you have any airplane horror stories, save them for two days; I'm leaving for Germany of Sunday ...and I don't want to hear it! :D
 
Not me, I've been flying for most of my life. My father is a current QANTAS captain/ex-fighter pilot and funnily enough when he was young he was afraid of flying.

I love the feeling of taking off - it almost relaxes me. I can't sleep on planes, which, when you live in Australia is a bit of a bugger because it's a long flight to almost everywhere but if I were to fall asleep it would be on takeoff.

When I was living in the Snowy Mountains in the far south of New South Wales I took a plane from Canberra to Sydney and the the whole takeoff was so perfect I fell asleep and woke up when the plane stopped in Sydney. Best flight ever.
 
Chundles said:
When I was living in the Snowy Mountains in the far south of New South Wales I took a plane from Canberra to Sydney and the the whole takeoff was so perfect I fell asleep and woke up when the plane stopped in Sydney. Best flight ever.


Were you drunk again? :D
 
I won't say the details, but lets just say the baby hit the ceiling and made a hole.:D jk
 
I have a fear of heights... but I suspect (like most people afraid of heights) that it's more a fear of falling, than it is of heights. So that goes 100% for plane rides.

That being said, I love the window seat beacuse the views are amazing.

Is that contradictary?
 
celebrian23 said:
I neither like nor dislike flying. It's like eating celery. I don't mind it, but it's rather tasteless.
Tasteless or Bland? I feel like you mean the latter, but I'd be really curious to hear your reasons for the former.

(I'm not playing the grammar police, I just find semantics interesting. :))
 
michaelrjohnson said:
Tasteless or Bland? I feel like you mean the latter, but I'd be really curious to hear your reasons for the former.

(I'm not playing the grammar police, I just find semantics interesting. :))

Oh, my friend, I do mean tasteless. Celery is like water to me. It's like water in a vegetable form.
 
I'm not scared of the flight itself, I love it. I just always have "what if....." on my mind which makes me nervous.


Granted, when you look at the statistics, I have a much better chance of dying in an accident if I drove to where I was going. But I still always am thinking "What if...."
 
celebrian23 said:
Like I said, I don't care either way for vegetable water ;)
But it's really good with peanut butter (and rasins)... which is a great in-flight snack. <-- Whew! I tried to bring it back on-topic!
 
I would say I have a passive fear of flying. I'm not afraid when I'm on the plane, but sometimes I'd rather be on the ground. ;)

My first flight was from San Francisco to New York City, when I was 23. I was nervous, but not scared, plus I had a movie to keep my mind occupied. But on shorter flights I try to keep myself distracted by just looking at the ground, seeing things that I could perhaps recognize, things of that sort. I also love taking aerial pictures while I'm on the plane, I've got gobs of 'em. :)
 
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