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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:00:25 AM EST
[#1]
Thats why I got a AmEx Platinum card. Get tanked in the sky club then take a nap watching a movie with my sennheiser noise canceling headphones in first class.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:02:00 AM EST
[#2]
everybody has intrusive thoughts. Just get a little fucked up before the flight?
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:02:53 AM EST
[#3]
Take a xanax
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:03:36 AM EST
[#4]
Are you Mr play it safe? Afraid to fly? Pack your suuuuuuitcase
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:03:41 AM EST
[#5]
If it is your time, it is your time. If it ain't, it ain't.
Avoid stupid situations and truly shitty airlines, especially overseas. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:05:17 AM EST
[#6]
You dont. You either fly enough to get over it or you use some kind of drug. Some use alcohol, Xanax or attivan. Just tell your GP about flying anxiety. They can prescribe a small dose of attivan.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:05:46 AM EST
[#7]
Understand the world neither revolves around you nor cares about you.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:08:51 AM EST
[#8]
Go for a flight on a small Cessna or a helicopter.....survive.....flying on a normal plane becomes easier......Unless you crash on the Cessna.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:09:00 AM EST
[#9]
I just accept it.
Nothing I can do about it. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:10:00 AM EST
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:10:52 AM EST
[#11]
I used to get frequent rides on the corporate Citation. It augured in hauling some other people around. Sort of weird feeling. But then I figured what are the odds of me flying in 2 aircraft that crashed??? So I'm good to go.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:13:49 AM EST
[#12]
Ask your husband to come along and hold your hand.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:15:30 AM EST
[#13]
I don’t get worked up about much but the flight out always has me a little uneasy for various reasons even though I know it’s very safe and the odds are great that nothing will happen and greater that something will happen on the way to the airport. Maybe it’s the plunge from 30k feet and the very long fall back down to earth.
 Now the return flight is no big deal and I’m ready to go and relaxed for the flight. At least we aren’t flying on some cut rate Asian airline. Planes are better built and maintained than back in the 80s and 90s. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:15:32 AM EST
[#14]
do you get a little scared during thunder storms?
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:15:58 AM EST
[#15]
Coat yourself in tin foil
Your electromagnetic field readings are probably off the charts |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:16:47 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you Mr play it safe? Afraid to fly? Pack your suuuuuuitcase He waited his whole damn life, to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought: Well isn't this nice?  Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Official 4K Music Video) |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:17:13 AM EST
[#17]
It's all about you...narcissist.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:17:55 AM EST
[#18]
Last time I got on a plane Reagan was president.
I dislike that if it crashes, I'll probably die, but that is only a small concern to my dislike for being disarmed while on the plane. Being nauseous ain't much fun either. In summary driving eliminates all those issues. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:18:43 AM EST
[#19]
Quoted: Weird shit happens to me and around me, and I have this fear that me being on the plane will somehow increase the probability of something happening. Seek professional mental help. Seriously. If you need to fly, especially to keep your job, and have that much anxiety over the safest form of transportation in the U.S., you need someone to help you mentally get over that hurdle. Do you have this much fear about riding in a car? |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:18:51 AM EST
[#20]
Ride that fucker into the dirt. Never happen again.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:19:18 AM EST
[#21]
Just remind yourself, if something catastrophic were to happen....it wont hurt.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:19:45 AM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: everybody has intrusive thoughts. Just get a little fucked up before the flight? After 20 years of flying I'm still nervous every time. This right here works like a charm. I'm your pilot, BTW. 
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:23:01 AM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: He waited his whole damn life, to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought: Well isn't this nice?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUcAnd isn't it ironic? |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:24:01 AM EST
[#24]
How many planes have crashed that you weren't on? Plenty. See, you're not that important. If that plane was gonna crash, it's gonna crash regardless of whether or not you're in it. Hell you might not even be in it and it'll just crash on top of your house instead.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:24:56 AM EST
[#25]
I got no issues with aircraft but I understand irrational fear.
Solo wilderness camping…as soon as darkness comes I get pretty damn anxious. Have to keep reminding myself that there’s nothing different in the woods except the lights are turned off. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:25:02 AM EST
[#26]
Easy: take the wife and get lucky on the plane. We've always planned for her to say if caught: "You gotta let me do this our we're all going to die!"
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:26:50 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I just accept it. Nothing I can do about it.
The flight whore put a noob beside me because she was nervous first time flyer. I told her if we survive the take off and landing, the rest will be OK. Yes, I told her that.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:27:57 AM EST
[#28]
I have the thought now and then... but once in the air there isn't a damn thing to be done about it.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:28:16 AM EST
[#29]
Enlist
Go to jump school Get your knees in the breeze Fear of flying problem solved |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:33:47 AM EST
[#30]
If you fly often enough, you just get over it.
If the flight attendants get nervous, feel free to join them. Otherwise, have a drink. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:40:11 AM EST
[#31]
That doesn’t sound healthy.
I suppose through multiple levels of some butterfly effect shit you could reason that specifically you being on the plane is what brings it down. The truth is that you have no control over it and the chances are stupidly low anyway. Stop worrying about shit you can’t control. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:40:55 AM EST
[#32]
My biggest fear was always getting bumped off the flight.
F/A comes to me...... "I'm sorry but you're gonna have to get off." Damn I got all dressed up and came to the airport for nothing! |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:41:00 AM EST
[#33]
If you feel like you have a legit fear of flying, this book is a good place to start.
 As to Xanax recommendations, not a terrible idea - your doctor may give you a small scrip if anxiety is the issue. I suffered for a few years with fear of flying - mostly due to the lack of control over circumstances being the "trigger." Eventually broke free of the feeling after convincing myself that I was giving up more control by denying myself access to go places I wanted, than being stuck for a couple hours on a plane. Now I love the freedom to travel that flying allows. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:42:56 AM EST
[#34]
I drink a lot and take xanax
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:43:53 AM EST
[#35]
Pack a chute
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:44:37 AM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: He waited his whole damn life, to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought: Well isn't this nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUcQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Are you Mr play it safe? Afraid to fly? Pack your suuuuuuitcase He waited his whole damn life, to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought: Well isn't this nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUcIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you neeeeeeed is a knife. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:44:43 AM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My biggest fear was always getting bumped off the flight. F/A comes to me...... "I'm sorry but you're gonna have to get off." "Good. Plane's gonna crash anyway." |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:46:37 AM EST
[#38]
 Bob Newhart - "STOP IT!" |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:48:58 AM EST
[#39]
Binge watch a few episodes of Air Disasters before your flight. Should settle you right down.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:50:20 AM EST
[#40]
Quoted: Weird shit happens to me and around me, and I have this fear that me being on the plane will somehow increase the probability of something happening. What are your theological beliefs? Do you beleive in a God Who called you forth from nothingness--or do you beleive that your existence is an exercise in the marvels of chaos theory. If you beleive in a God who called you forth from nothingness, and you do not beleive that He is completely indifferent to your plight, then I'd say the source of your fear is either biological>psychological or spiritual--which is to say the product of demonic oppression, which is generally the residue of unrepentant sin. If you beleive that your life is an exercise in Chaos theory, your fears are ludicrous. YOU yourself have no bearing on the absurdity which is life, therefor the risks could not possibly i ncrease merely by your presence. You should go buy a statistical manual used by insurance actuaries to delineate risk, and take cold comfort in mathmatical statistics--which will show you that your fear of anything happenning to you personally on a commercial aviation flight is astronomically low, because you are surrounded by highly paid professionals who are there to make sure that nothing predictably bad can happen. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:50:51 AM EST
[#41]
Probably pretty great, considering traffic lights turn red just because "I' am in the car.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:51:24 AM EST
[#42]
My infantry platoon was doing training in Alaska in about 78. Flew into some remote spot on a old CH47 loaded full of men and gear,
until some mechanical issue forced us into a really hard landing. I swear that thing bounced 5’ after we hit. Middle of nowhere and we had to wait for a second bird to pick us up. Then a UH 1 shows up with mechanics and parts, fixes the Chinook and we had to get back on that damn thing. Not even a test flight. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:53:14 AM EST
[#43]
Can't be in a plane crash if you don't fly. I've lived by that since the '80's.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:54:48 AM EST
[#44]
You’re in luck Mr. Nothuman. I’m specially qualified to tell you It Doesn’t Work That Way. Get over it. Nobody cares about you, but You.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:55:33 AM EST
[#45]
Quoted: Weird shit happens to me and around me, and I have this fear that me being on the plane will somehow increase the probability of something happening. Talk to a therapist and take some happy pills. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:56:19 AM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can't be in a plane crash if you don't fly. I've lived by that since the '80's. Hey Willie!  . You ever gonna get that ol geetar fixed?
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:56:47 AM EST
[#47]
Two kids, wife, mortgage, perpetual work....
I am ready to die OP, that helps a lot. 
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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:57:03 AM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My infantry platoon was doing training in Alaska in about 78. Flew into some remote spot on a old CH47 loaded full of men and gear, until some mechanical issue forced us into a really hard landing. I swear that thing bounced 5’ after we hit. Middle of nowhere and we had to wait for a second bird to pick us up. Then a UH 1 shows up with mechanics and parts, fixes the Chinook and we had to get back on that damn thing. Not even a test flight. My mom does quality control at an airplane manufacturer. She has to go on test flights occasionally. It's pretty scary, seeing the people who build the plane, seeing it go from a bare metal tube to an airplane and you have ride in it on its first flight. Fuuuuck that. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:01:27 AM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can't be in a plane crash if you don't fly. I've lived by that since the '80's. Tell that to the folks who lived here. Interesting to note that this happenned in Russia, so they were probably Godless Communists. Coincidence? I don't think so.  Russian military plane crashes into residential building in Siberian city of Irkutsk |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:06:40 AM EST
[#50]
Did you find a fish box?
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