I don't think I enjoy flying……

I read somewhere that you could travel on a plane everyday, and on average it would be twenty six thousand years before you were involved in an accident, and chances are you would survive

I love getting up in the middle of the night to fly, I can never sleep the night before!

A nice 6:30 am flight is my fave, having to get up about 3:00 AM.

Yes, I am strange, but I love it!

I think in the few weeks after Sept 11th when i flew a RYR 732, i was a bit nervous wot might happen if there was a terrorist attack again. Not on me, but on say London, the whole industry would shut down, and my hobbie will be no more. The 732 wasn’t the best of places to have a nice peacefully flight, but now, the excitment of getting up at 2am to go to the USA or CGN is still in me, and i’m 17 for goodness sake!

I’d say that as much as I love flying, I’m not even looking forward to flights like Belgium – New Zealand, as they are just too long. A short haul flight is usually fun, but long haul in eco? Naaaah… It is usually rather tiring.

Not that it should stop anyone of flying, though.

He’s already said hes not scared, just a little bit apprehensive.

I think I would be the same, been lucky not to have any bad experiences when flying, touch wood.

More people are killed by donkeys each year than are killed in plane crashes.

I don’t think that flying in general is the cause, it depends on the weather, airline, pilot, aircraft used at flight, i had some rough and rocky flights, but on the other hand, i had some really smooth ones. The last flight, it was a Lufthansa, I slept the whole trip (I don’t usually sleep in air) , and the landing was so soft that I didn’t feel the touchdown !!!

Exactly Frank; a means to an end….

I think that is called routine.

And, for sure you won’t enjoy the “meals”. Who would, unless you eat at Mc Donald’s every day, you can’t consider that as good food. And yes sleeping is difficult too. But it is still better than a 1 week boat cruise through the atlantic, throwing up all day 😉

I was petrified of flying until three years ago, I had the same unhealthy obsession with it as I do now, but getting on an aeroplane was something I never really looked forward to, but just doing it continually got me over it and now I’m doing it everyday!!

I guess what I’m trying to say is irrational fear/nervousness is but a small factor; the actual experience of flying I’m starting to find tiresome, unpleasant and a means from getting from A to B! 😮

That is awful news TWA – something I didn’t know.

As for me; well I’m not scared of flying and I know the statistics well enough to know that it is unlikely that anything is going to happen to me.

I think its bigger than that….

It isn’t comfortable or pleasant being sat in a cramped space for 5 hours. It isn’t pleasant trying to get to sleep on a night flight but never to avail. The food is at best, edible so the excitement at the trolley coming down the aisle has gone (I always used to look forward to that).

Then add the odd bad flight in; no matter what stats tell you; if at 3am in the pitch black you’re being tossed out of your seat on a 767, desparately clinging on as the plane angles continuously at 45 degrees whilst appearing to drop every few seconds, then you can’t help get a little nervous. The flight I refer to was EWR-AMS in November; we all experience bumps and drops now and again, often lengthy and with the requirement for seat belts, but never have I experienced so violently and for 2 hours constantly to where I was ready to throw up!

I just worry that I’m losing the ability to even enjoy any flight, even a smooth one.

Whats wrong with me? Am I a freak or something? :rolleyes:

Yeah…it is a thing I don’t share much…He was a good high school friend of mine….

Such a shame.
My condolences, if somewhat belated

Yeah…it is a thing I don’t share much…He was a good high school friend of mine….

I was the opposite, only went around 2 hours max flying time on our hols and was getting pretty fed up of going to the same place time and time again. Anyway I decided to try and get over my fear so I got talking to a chap at work who flew Let 410s in Haiti (think that’s how you spell it) He then took me up from his local flying club (Sherburne in Elmet) I then was subjected to being tossed around in a little piper warrior for two hours and the more I did this the less fear I had.
Anyway I then started to do my PPL and since then never looked back. This has proved that you can overcome your fears and this year for my honeymoon we are off to the usa, Heathrow to San Francisco then to Washington then Boston and New York to Heathrow, cant bloomin wait.

My old man used to suffer the same symptoms, feelings of claustrophobia, panic and restlesness. He solved it nicely with a few Johnnie Walker Red’s prior to boarding. Didn’t give monkey’s after that.

LMAO

My old man used to suffer the same symptoms, feelings of claustrophobia, panic and restlesness. He solved it nicely with a few Johnnie Walker Red’s prior to boarding. Didn’t give monkey’s after that.

I had that same feeling too after a friend of mine perished on TWA800, but statistics do show that you have a better chance of being killed in a car accident than on a flight…While flying through thunderstorms will jolt the most seasoned of fliers, there is not a reason in the world to fear severe turbulance….I just get nervous when the old NWA DC-9s we get on start creaking and cracking….like they are about to fall apart….

By heck, you never told me you knew some one on TWA800!

Pembo… my advice would be to take a fear of flying course. It might not be 100% directed at you, but may help ease your “symptoms”

I had that same feeling too after a friend of mine perished on TWA800, but statistics do show that you have a better chance of being killed in a car accident than on a flight…While flying through thunderstorms will jolt the most seasoned of fliers, there is not a reason in the world to fear severe turbulance….I just get nervous when the old NWA DC-9s we get on start creaking and cracking….like they are about to fall apart….