Active Users:716 Time:13/10/2025 08:47:32 PM
The silly thing is that I fly at least twice a year, and more if you count individual flights. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 22/12/2009 07:05:38 AM
Honestly, I don't fear them because I've flown so frequently, it's no longer unknown. I fly a few times every year, and being afraid just doesn't make sense.

Yeah, but who says I have to make sense?! :P

I actually dislike landing. That sensation of falling, lurching closer towards the ground, trusting that the guys they hired to pilot this thing know how to land without smashing us into the earth....

See, I can deal with landing, because I find getting close to the ground strangely fun. Everything looks like a toy! It's leaving the ground that I hate.

It is so unlikely that your flight will crash that you shouldn't even stress the teeniest tiniest bit. The plane you will be flying on has been checked repeatedly to make sure it is safe, the people they hired to fly it have been exhaustively trained, and you are entirely safe in their care.

That was pretty good reassurance. :)

Because I know it will be over soon... Flying to Africa was the worst though... my flight was 16 hours long... sleeping was impossible, eating didn't help, man was not meant to be confined at high altitude for that long. (8

Yeah, flying to Europe was not fun at all.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel

*MySmiley*

Reply to message
/Survey: I hate flying. By hate I actually mean "have a ridiculous phobia of." REASSURE ME. - 22/12/2009 05:50:31 AM 686 Views
*reassures* - 22/12/2009 06:43:11 AM 605 Views
The silly thing is that I fly at least twice a year, and more if you count individual flights. - 22/12/2009 07:05:38 AM 508 Views
I have cried in planes before - 22/12/2009 07:02:18 AM 576 Views
Heh - 22/12/2009 01:46:31 PM 607 Views
Flying is easy enough - 22/12/2009 07:18:05 AM 774 Views
For some reason....no, not even a little bit - 22/12/2009 08:01:20 AM 663 Views
Weee - 22/12/2009 09:35:48 AM 477 Views
Many more people die on the roads anyway - 22/12/2009 09:35:55 AM 445 Views
We don't belong up there, I agree - 22/12/2009 01:17:36 PM 659 Views
*pat pat* - 23/12/2009 02:31:52 AM 579 Views
Ha ha! I survived, just like I told y'all I would. *NM* - 23/12/2009 03:31:29 AM 190 Views
It has to do with the lack of control. (WARNING: I'm not assuring you of anything) - 23/12/2009 04:20:22 AM 497 Views
Your honesty, as ever, is appreciated. *NM* - 23/12/2009 04:59:47 AM 193 Views
No problem. I'm always glad to offer brutal honesty. - 23/12/2009 02:20:27 PM 484 Views
I hatehatehate flying, too. - 23/12/2009 08:17:27 AM 672 Views
Watch this YouTube video of US Flight 427 coming in for a landing - 24/12/2009 11:45:29 AM 567 Views
Wow. You're quite the asshole. *NM* - 24/12/2009 09:19:36 PM 204 Views

Reply to Message