Are any of you afraid of flying in an airplane?

[Nocturnal]

If so, why?

I am. I don't know why. Perhaps watching movies and hearing about plane crashes just make me so scared. It's like you can't do jack squat once something goes wrong. You can prepare for your death, that's about it.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Are any of you afraid of flying in an airplane?

Nope

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

On average it's safer than being in a car for that same distance

 

[OdiN]

no

 

[CHfan4ever]

I already crashed...but survived

 

[Toonces]

like driving a car or riding in an elevator?

 

[markgm]

No. The worst that can happen is you crash but somehow the impact doesn't kill you and the wind blows the smoke away from where you are crushed preventing you from suffocating as you slowly waste away from internal bleeding as a baby cries somewhere in the distance.

I love the scene in Airplane where the inflight movie is a plane crashing.

 

[loup garou]

Are any of you afraid of flying in an airplane?

I'm more afraid of flying out an airplane!

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

The whole 911 thing has me scared to death, no crap. I hate flying.

 

[bradruth]

No, I actually really enjoy flying and considered becoming a pilot.

 

[biff 24 2000]

nope

 

[archiloco]

yes, just cuz it's so final...hehe....dropping for 20,000 feet....it's like hum maybe we will land on a giant field of nerf footballs. or bubble wrap forest

 

[iamwiz82]

I love it. I also am fascinated by incidents. Just today I read the NTSB report on NWA Flight 255.

airlinemeals.net and seatguru.com are site of attaction for me, as well as airliners.net. Liveatc.net is also neat. Oh and there is a great realtime flight tracker, but I cannot remember the URL ATM.

EDIT: Found it!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL3

UAL 3 will be leaving shortly, back on it's way to ORD, and so vacation and paradise is over for 300 more people.

 

[Lola]

i used to be afraid.... but, i realized that you just have to deal with it when you travel. I love to travel, and i deal. I have gotten better with flying. I truly believe, if its your time. there is nothing you can do about it.
edit: i am not afraid of flying, i am afraid of crashing

 

[potato28]

Nope. I love the air.

 

[crab]

I'm afraid of NOT flying in an airplane. I absolutely live for it.

 

[Bozono]

Originally posted by: archiloco
yes, just cuz it's so final...hehe....dropping for 20,000 feet....it's like hum maybe we will land on a giant field of nerf footballs. or bubble wrap forest

:laugh:

I wouldn't call it being afraid, but like archilico said, it's the whole surrendering control of the next 2+ hours that gets to me a bit. Though I've only flown 4 times in my entire life.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: archiloco
yes, just cuz it's so final...hehe....dropping for 20,000 feet....it's like hum maybe we will land on a giant field of nerf footballs. or bubble wrap forest

Great post, the edit is even better!!

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Bozono

Originally posted by: archiloco
yes, just cuz it's so final...hehe....dropping for 20,000 feet....it's like hum maybe we will land on a giant field of nerf footballs. or bubble wrap forest

:laugh:

I wouldn't call it being afraid, but like archilico said, it's the whole surrendering control of the next 2+ hours that gets to me a bit. Though I've only flown 4 times in my entire life.

I'm fairly certain that this is the reason my Dad won't fly as well. He gets sick if anyone but him is driving whatever car he is in.

 

[CheesePoofs]

No, I love flying. I'd like to learn to fly at some point, but that'll have to wait for some $$$

 

[jfall]

I hated it the first couple of times but I'm fine with it now.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I love it. I also am fascinated by incidents. Just today I read the NTSB report on NWA Flight 255.

Ah... the one where the pilots neglected to do their pre-flight checklist and tried to take off without extending the flaps and slats. 157 people killed, included 2 on the ground. A 4 year-old girl on the plane was the only survivor. Text

Contrary to popular belief, airline crashes are almost never rapid, unexpected events. For example, it took Swissair Flight 111 roughly 21 smoky-cabin-filled minutes to fall 33,000 uncontrolled feet into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 flew inverted (upside-down) for 10 minutes before crashing into the Pacific off LA. USAir Flight 427 was only at 6000 feet and on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport when a mechanical failure in the rudder caused the pilots to lose control, but it still took 62 seconds for the plane to impact the ground at a nearly vertical nose-down positon.
Good times!

I won't say that I'm afraid to fly, but it's not the most comfortable thing in the world to me either.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
No, I love flying. I'd like to learn to fly at some point, but that'll have to wait for some $$$

Learning to fly isn't that expensive, and you can get an eigth share in a decent plane for the cost of the average new car.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I love it. I also am fascinated by incidents. Just today I read the NTSB report on NWA Flight 255.

Ah... the one where the pilots neglected to do their pre-flight checklist and tried to take off without extending the flaps and slats. 157 people killed, included 2 on the ground. A 4 year-old girl on the plane was the only survivor. Text

Contrary to popular belief, airline crashes are almost never rapid, unexpected events. For example, it took Swissair Flight 111 roughly 21 smoky-cabin-filled minutes to fall 33,000 uncontrolled feet into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 flew inverted (upside-down) for 10 minutes before crashing into the Pacific off LA. USAir Flight 427 was only at 6000 feet and on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport when a mechanical failure in the rudder caused the pilots to lose control, but it still took 62 seconds for the plane to impact the ground at a nearly vertical nose-down positon.
Good times!

I won't say that I'm afraid to fly, but it's not the most comfortable thing in the world to me either.

Eh, I'd think a plane crash is just about the perfect way to die, relativly fast, unexpected, and newsworthy. On a related note, I'd love to learn to fly, but I hate flying comercially. Being 6'4" makes it very unconfortable.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
No, I love flying. I'd like to learn to fly at some point, but that'll have to wait for some $$$

Learning to fly isn't that expensive, and you can get an eigth share in a decent plane for the cost of the average new car.

For many of us, several thousand $$ is expensive.