I have a terrible fear of flying. When I first arrived states-side my job entailed jetting all over the north American continent and I clocked up a hell of a lot of air miles.
At first I quite enjoyed flying, but as I experienced it more and more, I started to feel uneasy. Eventually this unease turned into full blown terrified shaking and sweating and sleepless nights before the flight.
Who else on this forum is fearful of flying?
Also, I'd be interested to hear if others have had a similar experience where the fear builds over time. Most people I know with a fear of flying have this from day one.
As a side note, if I'm in the cockpit, the fear disappears completely, so I wonder if it's a control issue that I have.
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Fear of Flying
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Shaker » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:55 pm
As Billy Conolly once observed, flying is fine - going into the ground like a fucking dart at three hundred miles an hour is the problem.
I've flown and I was OK, but I can't say that I'm going to break my legs running up the steps to repeat the experience.
I've flown and I was OK, but I can't say that I'm going to break my legs running up the steps to repeat the experience.
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Bella Fortuna » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:06 pm
I don't like it, per se, and can get quite anxious, but always it balances out to me in the desire to go where I'm headed (well, in the case of pleasure travel, at least).
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Feck » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:41 pm
Oh not this then 
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Bella Fortuna » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:44 pm
I read that when I was a teenager, discovering it in my mother's books....
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Feck » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:50 pm
Bella Fortuna wrote:I read that when I was a teenager, discovering it in my mother's books....
ah the zipless fuck and all those wonderful femminist ideals .
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Re: Fear of Flying
by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:44 pm
I love flying but I hate being squashed into tiny seats like a sardine. 
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Re: Fear of Flying
by maiforpeace » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:49 pm
mrenutt4 wrote:Bella Fortuna wrote:I read that when I was a teenager, discovering it in my mother's books....
ah the zipless fuck and all those wonderful femminist ideals .
My mother had that book too, but I was more interested in her other book, "The Sensuous Woman" discovered in the same place she hid her vibrator...
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I love flying but I hate being squashed into tiny seats like a sardine.
Me too. I don't have a fear of flying, but I get some anxiety from the claustrophobia that accompanies being forced to sit in one small space for a length of time. Nothing a little valium can't fix though.
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