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DigitalOne-seriously, I used to suffer this way as well. I resolved my problem by sleeping through the flight.
1) always get a window seat so you can sleep without someone waking you to get out and 2) take a double-dose of Dramamine just prior to boarding the plane.
the Dramamine makes you sleepy enough that you can just doze off and forget about the flight! it worked for me for years.
Now a question of etiquette: as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch...?
http://www.ziyue.com/movies/usa/1999...lub/fight8.jpg
I was the same way for a while; I started to have panic attacks a couple of years ago, which was accompanied by claustrophobia.Quote:
Originally posted by jAQUAN
I'm afraid to fly too, havnt in years. For me because of anxienty not fear of malfunction, so consider yourself lucky that all you need is a dramamine (sold in airport giftshop).
Just out of the blue. Let me tell you, it sucked.
Took me a long time to get them under control; lots of deep breathing, imaging, relearning control of my mind. One of the side effects was that traveling by plane (or car or train, for that matter) freaked me out.
Just have to keep at it. I was lucky enough that I had regular trips, so I could desensitize myself. But if you don't fly often enough, I'd go with the booze approach.
Now remember, the oxygen masks get you high, and give you a feeling of euphoria. You start to accept your fate.
don't worry...
when you hit the ground at 500+ mph, you won't feel a thing, i promise :)
If, not when.
ack, you're such an optimist!
where's that brooding teenager i know and love... :D :)
I have been flying a lot more than most kids my age as I lived in Dubai for almost 5 years, and we went back and forth between Norway every summer and christmas. I am not afraid of flying, but I'm more afraid of crashing in the sea, not because of the crash but because I'll end up on one of those rafts. I have always been fascinated by flight, and the way I see it there is nothing the pilot can do to defy physics. If the engien stops, then the plane will glide. That does not frighten me at all.
What you should do is go to an air show or to one of those plane you can rent (and they fly you over your house and you say "ooooooh"). By actually seeing the plane and seeing the guy flying it you will feel a lot safer. And the pilot will probably also be able to tell you a lot more about why its safe to fly.
At least try and keep up, Virgo - he's being funny, in a bizarre, nordberg-type of way.Quote:
Originally posted by ViRGo_RK
If, not when.
jets don't glide as well as balsa models, that I do know.Quote:
Originally posted by Ihoss
If the engien stops, then the plane will glide.
Yeah, but at least on a jet you can get plastered on the way down.
in the case of a water landing.. a balsa model becomes a flotation device.
just make sure none of those strange looking dudes wearing camel helmet boards the same plane with you. everything else is safer than riding a city bus. and if the plane is really small, yes, you have to take some extra little plastic bags to fill them up with what you ate that morning. JUST DO IT
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/2001/supl...8/binladen.jpg
Tall guy, if you really want to fly around in a balsa plane, then do that. I would rather fly in a 100 tonn steel 'n jet fuel plane, ok? :p
*spears martini olive with a balsa wood toothpick*
Tii many martoonis for this flight... :faded:
i wasn't being funny...he really won't feel a thing! ;) :DQuote:
Originally posted by hurricaneone
At least try and keep up, Virgo - he's being funny, in a bizarre, nordberg-type of way.
You're very comforting.Quote:
Originally posted by nordberg
i wasn't being funny...he really won't feel a thing! ;) :D
Can't wait to see how your kid turns out! ;)
bah, he'll be fine.Quote:
Originally posted by DigitalOne
Can't wait to see how your kid turns out! ;)
his fisher price guillotine is working out nicely:
http://www.gloriosis.com/images/catdoor.jpg
:)
Ha ha ha!
Why is your pet door in a window, and not a door? :confused:
it's a lot less intrusive to put it in the window, than to cut a hole in a door or wall.
i thought it was quite smart if i do say so myself.
:)