fear of flying

[Go Big D!]

For being such an adrenaline junkie, I have such an unnatural fear of flying, I don't even know where it comes from. Because for the first 19 years of my life I flew numerous times a year back and forth between my parents houses. My parents divorced when I was an infant and my brother and I would fly by ourselves to my dad's for the summer and the holidays.

I never had a problem until somewhere in my teens. Maybe an unusually bumpy flight planted a seed, I don't know. But as soon as I was legal the only way I could manage to make it through a flight was to get snookered and sleep until we landed. Even made flights to Hawaii and Mexico and from Virginia to California. But I haven't been on a plane since I got out of the Marines.

You can't get me on one. No thanks, I'll pass.
Riding the rails is just fine with me.

 

[windward]

I live in Hawaii. It's get on the damned plane or stay on the rock. I'm okay with flying.

Have to make my annual trips to Cowboys stadium somehow.

 

[KJJ]

I don't fear flying I love to fly it's crashing I fear.

 

[KJJ]

If I could I would sit next to the flight recorders because no matter how bad a crash is they usually come out of it with hardly a scratch.

Whatever those black boxes are made out of they need to start making planes out of that material.

 

[tiny tim]

I can be a little nervous about flying, but it's not something that really scares me.

 

[Kangaroo]

If I could I would sit next to the flight recorders because no matter how bad a crash is they usually come out of it with hardly a scratch.

Whatever those black boxes are made out of they need to start making planes out of that material.

it is not the fall that kills you either it is that sudden stop at the bottom

 

[Kangaroo]

What I find funny is more people die in automobile accidents every year than they do flying. When airplanes crash it is major media head lines because it is a large # of people at one time.

Technically you should have a fear of driving because you are more likely to die or get seriously injured.