I have an upcoming flight in two days for and vacation and I’m terrified of flying. Are there any suggestions on how to overcome my fear of flying? Im honestly thinking of cancelling my trip because I’ve been so stressed and anxious the last few days just thinking about my upcoming flight.
>>33615119world leaders feel safe enough to get on an airplane. The richest of the rich are flying all the time. If it’s safe for them it’s safe for you
>>33615119Get drunk as shit in the airport. Rest easy knowing you're taking the safest form of transit humanity has devised.
I was like you too, until I read that you are most likely to get in a car accident than an airplane crash by a bunch of percentages. Its crazy
>>33615119Is fear of heights and/or being stuck in an enclosed space?
>>33615119Talk to your doctor about it, they'd probably give you a script of Xanax or something so you can conk out during the flight.
>>33615119I pray every time that the plane fucking crashes
>>33615119Have a thirteen dollar double shot at the airport.
>>33615119statistically speaking every time you get inside a car you are FAR likelier to be killed than every time you get inside an airplane. There is one fatality every 500,000 car trips, and one fatality every 10 million airplane trips.
>>33615608Fear of take off and turbulence and that the plane is going to malfunction mid-flight. I fucking hate turbulence and take-off so much. I honestly think this is going to be the last flights I take in a while. I resent my boyfriend for making me go on vacation with him when he fucking knows I’m terrified of flying.
>>33615721putting this another way, if you took one car ride every single day for 50 years you would have a 3.7% chance of being killed in a car crash, while if you took one plane ride every single day for 50 years it would be a 0.037% chance. That's not even a 1 in 2500 chance of being killed in a plane crash after riding a plane every single day for 50 years.
>>33615721>>33615753Statistically speaking you are 100% certain to die in a plane crash than in a car crash. Dont be fucking stupid.
>>33615759What does that matter? The stats I gave were for DEATHS from car accidents, not just total car accidents with injuries, fatal or not.
>>33615786Still doesn’t help.
>>33616080then idk what to say, your fear is absolutely irrational if you have no problem sitting in a car but are terrified of sitting in an airplane
>>33615119I had a complete stranger (a younger woman than me but a 20 something adult) reach behind the seat (she was sitting in front of me) and put her hand back to me and said please hold my hand I'm so scared of flying. I didn't know this person at all but I felt her genuine concern and there were tears starting to stream down her face. So I held her hand for about 15 minutes and talked to her gently about her fear of flying and reassured her everything will be alright. I said to her, there was more of a risk of accident from driving to the airport that day to get onto our flight than there is that we'd have a problem with our flight or any flight she'd ever go on probably ever. She said you know, you're right and I feel kind of foolish. I said, there is no need to feel foolish ever about how you're feeling and that I was glad she reached out to ask me the question when she needed that comfort. When we landed she gave me a hug and said thank you. I felt kind of awkward at that particular moment, but it was a human compassion kind of event that I'll never forget.
I don’t know what to do. My flight is in one day.
>>33616761go to your flight and drink heavily
can't show courage unless you're afraidmaking all this noise is what makes someone a pussy
>>33615119One of the airlines - I forget which one - used to end the standard "We have now landed, be sure to take all your luggage, etc" speech with "The safest part of your journey is now ended. Drive carefully."Statistically they were right. You are in FAR greater danger going to and from the airport.
>>33615119Depends on what you're afraid of. I was deeply afraid of mechanical failure/pilot error and playing the tutorials in microsoft flight sim pretty much cured my fear. I learned what pilots were doing at every stage of flight and my anxiety was gone.
>>33615119Even if the engines blew up mid-flight, planes are designed to be manoeuvrable without propulsion, think if a paper airplane and how it is able to glide slowly through air. Same happens to airplanes without power or engines, there’s still a long glide for pilots to work with into a safe enough landing.
>>33619116My nigga if the engines blow up mid flight you’re fucking dead lmao.
>>33619118Air transat flight 236 is a good example of this. Ran out of fuel. The plane glided 120km before making an emergency landing. 0 fatalities.
>>33615119As with most fears you just have to do it. Only way out is through.If it makes you feel better, statistically your drive to the airport is the most dangerous part of the entire trip..
My flight is tomorrow. I’m so fucking scared.
>>33620354>My flight is tomorrow. I’m so fucking scaredOkay so let yourself be scared then but still go. Go to the airport while being scared, board the plane while sitting all scared, take the flight while scared, and then have a safe landing while scared. You are allowed to be scared bro, doesn't mean you are unable to go lol. I was scared shitless on my first few flights too. What I did was just get drunk with on board booze and boot up some metal music on my music player, that way if I were to die I'd at least die to some heavy as fuck music to go out with a bang. All that happened is I ended up with a headache and jet lag, nothing happened. You'll be fine
>>33615119Sedatives.
>>33620354Well I'm getting tooth surgery tomorrow morning at 8 am. I'm fucking scared because they're taking out a tooth and implanting a pin into my jaw bone for an eventual fake tooth placement. So we will be scared tomorrow together. Literally, I'm max stressed. But we gotta do what we gotta do to go on in this life. So buck up buttercup. You can do it! I have to...so do you.
>>33615333>>33615721You dimwits, it's not that flying is safer than driving a car, it's that way way way way WAY more people drive a car every single day, and that pushes the statistical percentage of car deaths up. People also say that dying in a fucking war is """statistically less likely""" than dying in a traffic accident. So why haven't you enlisted yet?
my mom told me the pilot also wants to go home after the flight that made me calm
>>33620678you don't understand how statistics work
I’m so scared. It’s tomorrow.
>>33615119I just get really drunk and try to stay up the entire 24 hours before so I fall asleep. This is also my phobia.
>>33621833in 2020 in Europe there was 1(ONE) fatal plane crash
>>33621924I’m flying from SFO to Calgary Canada. How bad is the turbulence?
>>33621959go on turbli, it seems to be a turbulence forecast site
>>33615726Airplanes have dual engines for redundancy so if one fails, the plane can make an emergency landing.Twin-engine airplanes are rarely further than 100-200 miles of an emergency landing spot unless you're on a transoceanic flight. However, they ARE always within 3 hours of such a spot. Also, for extremely rare situations, planes are designed to be able to glide without any functional engine for approximately 100-150 miles.
>>33621959Its very smoky here due to the BC & NWT fires. But it's hot, sunny and very green still. Just smoky as hell. But all of Canada is like that pretty much these days. Enjoy your stay. There's lots to do here.
How was your flight OP :)
