Ive been flying since I was 4 years old on a regular basis but I find myself getting more nervous as I get older. It is getting so bad that when I have a flight booked I start to get nervous and have bad dreams a couple of days before.
Upon boarding Im usually ok, but just feel really uncomfortable and vulnerable. I wont ever fly alone, I always need a close friend, my partner or my mum, dad or nanna there with me and I always hold their hand for take off.
It has got worse amid all the security fears. I love aircraft but its getting worse. It doesnt help that I like to read about accidents and disasters, I have just finished a book called ‘it doesnt matter where you sit’ I bought it at an airshow and although glued to it, it has just unnerved me more.
Anyone else share my fears?
By: DME - 9th September 2004 at 10:58
Danair boy,
Sometimes I find myself slightly uneasy a few days before flying, I think the reason is that we aviation enthusiasts are always reading about the mechanics behind flying, finding out about crasehes, failures etc.
The normal general flying public have no interest in aviation so they really don’t have any way of finding out about small crashes which are not that well documented,where as we constantly read about them, therefore it’s not really in the forefront of their mind.
When sitting in a passenger aircraft I find myself thinking it would be so easy for something to go wrong i.e. engine failure, de pressurize but the only reason I find myself doing this is because I’m so bored and having read all these reports of crashing it just spurs on an overactive mind.
When flying PPL it never crosses my mind because you are so occupied in the art of flying :rolleyes:
DME
By: danairboy - 9th September 2004 at 10:19
I know the stastics off by heart but I am still terrified. I never worry about problems with the aircraft, it is always a mid-air collision or a bomb that worries me. I have dreams where the aircraft I am in just opens up in the sky and the plane and all its contents just fall to earth.
At check-in I eye uneasily the luggage thinking, unrationally, that one contains a bomb.
Waiting in the queue to take off at busy airports, I think of all the increased aircraft in the sky and how a momentary ATC lapse could set two aircraft on a collision course!
By: steve rowell - 9th September 2004 at 06:15
Statistics say, if you travelled on a plane everyday of your life, on average it would be 26,000 years before you were involved in an accident, and chances are you would survive it anyway
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September 8, 2004 at 11:50 pm