Terrified of flying, yet I have a plane to take in 5 days...

[Chryst Krispies]

Title says it.

Going over the ocean for the first time ever and I'm fucking terrified of planes and flying, on some John Madden status.

Anyone else out there have this problem and what should I do?uke:

 

[Line666]

Man up!

 

[Ola Englund]

get drunk or take sleeping pills

 

[Jackal_Strain]

Don't worry. Every plane lands.. eventually..

 

[SocialNumb]

Yeah dude. I hate flying! I have to get bombed to get through that. I curl up like a child if I don't get wrecked.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

I am terribly afraid of flying aswell... Take some sleeping pills, take a book with you read a bit and fall asleep, wake up when landing, done.

 

[Nuno Filipe]

See the positive side, if the plane crashes into ocean it will better than ground.
But make sure that you are a good swimmer or the sharks will have a pleasant meal.

Im joking dude. Plane is the most secure transportation.

 

[Pman]

See the positive side, if the plane crashes into ocean it will better than ground.
But make sure that you are a good swimmer or the sharks will have a pleasant meal.

Im joking dude. Plane is the most secure transportation.

More people die in car crashes than plane crashes. Theres very hardly EVER any plane crashes, and when there is its always a huge global deal! Nothing to worry about!

 

[Chryst Krispies]

More people die in car crashes than plane crashes. Theres very hardly EVER any plane crashes, and when there is its always a huge global deal! Nothing to worry about!

This statistic does nothing for me.

I guess I'm going with SocialNumb and I'm going to dabble in some substances haha.

I get motion sick too, that's another fuckin issue.

 

[JeffTD]

Going over the ocean for the first time ever and I'm fucking terrified of planes and flying, on some John Madden status.

That story is so gnarly - that like my entire college's football team way back when. We always pour some beer out for them when we get fucked up at JM's old house down the street.


But yeah dude, sleeping pills is where it's at.

 

[jangoux]

sleep a lot

 

[arv_foh]

If you get motion sickness take 2 dramamine, you'll be so fucked up you won't even care that you're flying and will probably sleep most of the way

 

[SocialNumb]

I once took a whole pack of dramamine. 12 came in it. What a horrible week trip that was.

 

[FloridaRolf]

I was VERY afraid of flying, so the first time I was really nervous. Then the plane began to roll and slowly started to take off... it just felt fucking great.

 

[colonel kurtz]

That story is so gnarly - that like my entire college's football team way back when. We always pour some beer out for them when we get fucked up at JM's old house down the street.


But yeah dude, sleeping pills is where it's at.

while you're at it, go pay homage to weird al by shitting in the middle stall of the bathroom across the hall from the campus radio station - that's where dude supposedly recorded his 1st song

 

[LeSedna]

I feel personnally concerned by this thread because I'm a pilot I'm supposed to pilot an A320 in a few years.

I can give you some tips that are well known. They depend a bit, wether you are affraid of the flight itself, or being inside a plane (sort of an claustrophobia). But this is sometimes quite linked.

- You have to know this is the most secured thing ever, EVER. It's more secured than walking in the street I guess. If you were with me in planes when I fly, you'll understand it : planes are separated sometimes 50 miles one from the other (over the ocean on some parts). Everything is not only checked but double checked. Everything ! And nothing is considered "safe" until it has a reliability best that 1 on 10^6 flights, which means 1 incident (not even accident) on 1 000 000.
- When you will fly, remember what I say, it may help you relativise : see how it moves less than a car. Being in a car on a road is more shaky.
- Turbulences are quite rare and are NOTHING. Again, when it appears, it's like driving on an old road, nothing more. And it's not a danger, it's just like that.
- Try to be relax in your seat, inspire, expire.
- Try to read. I cannot read in a train or in a plane (I get sick) but it may help you. Or watch a movie if it's possible in the company and the aircraft you are gonna fly.
- Try to sleep.
- If you're claustrophobic of if you are sick, look at the window and look far in the distance. You know it's the old trick for people who get sick on boats : you look far to find a fixed horizon so that your brain has something it understands better. If you are afraid of being high, maybe it's better to look inside. You'll choose.
- take some pills
- chat with someone else, it will help you relax and focus on semething else.
- when the engines will give full power at take off, try to think "oh my god it's awesome" and try to find the awesomeness in the situation. It may help you realize it's actually uber cool and that people would have given everything for centuries to live that.

Anyway, you'll discover that it's all in your head. Technically, it's very quiet, more calm than any train or car, and actually, it may be fun

 

[JeffTD]

Am I the only one who actually likes turbulence? In my mind, if you've got a giant metal bird flying through the sky that fast, and it's not shaking at least a bit... there's something seriously wrong!

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I feel personnally concerned by this thread because I'm a pilot I'm supposed to pilot an A320 in a few years.

I can give you some tips that are well known. They depend a bit, wether you are affraid of the flight itself, or being inside a plane (sort of an claustrophobia). But this is sometimes quite linked.

- You have to know this is the most secured thing ever, EVER. It's more secured than walking in the street I guess. If you were with me in planes when I fly, you'll understand it : planes are separated sometimes 50 miles one from the other (over the ocean on some parts). Everything is not only checked but double checked. Everything ! And nothing is considered "safe" until it has a reliability best that 1 on 10^6 flights, which means 1 incident (not even accident) on 1 000 000.
- When you will fly, remember what I say, it may help you relativise : see how it moves less than a car. Being in a car on a road is more shaky.
- Turbulences are quite rare and are NOTHING. Again, when it appears, it's like driving on an old road, nothing more. And it's not a danger, it's just like that.
- Try to be relax in your seat, inspire, expire.
- Try to read. I cannot read in a train or in a plane (I get sick) but it may help you. Or watch a movie if it's possible in the company and the aircraft you are gonna fly.
- Try to sleep.
- If you're claustrophobic of if you are sick, look at the window and look far in the distance. You know it's the old trick for people who get sick on boats : you look far to find a fixed horizon so that your brain has something it understands better. If you are afraid of being high, maybe it's better to look inside. You'll choose.
- take some pills
- chat with someone else, it will help you relax and focus on semething else.
- when the engines will give full power at take off, try to think "oh my god it's awesome" and try to find the awesomeness in the situation. It may help you realize it's actually uber cool and that people would have given everything for centuries to live that.

Anyway, you'll discover that it's all in your head. Technically, it's very quiet, more calm than any train or car, and actually, it may be fun

This is cool. I'm still prolly going to shit in my pants a little but all the suggestions I'll try out.
I'm flying to France too haha; thought you might lol at that one.

 

[arv_foh]

This is cool. I'm still prolly going to shit in my pants a little but all the suggestions I'll try out.
I'm flying to France too haha; thought you might lol at that one.

The first time I ever flew was from Boston to Paris. Every flight I've had since then seems amazingly short in comparison. You'll be fine dude. You'll never experience stuff like turbulence in the movies where shit starts falling out everywhere.

 

[Russtopher]

2 Dramamine, and re-read LeSedna's post about 100 times.

The thing that helped me the most when I used to have to fly for business? The tidbit about turbulence being like driving on a bumpy road. Seriously. I used to freak slightly when we'd hit a rough patch, mostly because when I was small we took a flight and my mother literally would SCREAM every time we hit some turbulence. It freakin' scarred me, man But once I heard that nugget about turbulence/bumpy road, and I kept it in mind the first time we hit some.... I've been fine since.

I usually just close my eyes and have the iPod going with some decent "headphone mix" stuff (Devin's "Ki" is my new fave for this) and I just relax.

We're flying to FL with my 2 kids and 3 nephews in a few weeks, and I've got to say, I'm really excited and not worried at all, mostly because all the kids are so psyched up to be on a jet