Hot Air Balloon First Flight
Can anyone think of reasons to put me at ease about my first plane flight?!?
I am 26 and have developed some pretty strong mental fears of flying. I was only up in the air once in my lifetime in a Hot Air Balloon when I was little and cried the whole time. Since then I have a strong fear of heights. My flight is next week to HAWAII so its actually several connecting flights there and back…im TERRIFIED…please help!
Your odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 14,000,000. Your odds of dying in a car crash on your way to the airport are way higher. Really, once you get to the airport, you should breathe a sigh of relief that you didn’t die on the highway. But most of us don’t do that of course, because a) we’re used to being in cars all the time, and b) when we’re in a car we feel in control. Still, though, just going by logic, one should be less afraid of the flight than of the drive to the airport.
That sounded really nerdy, sorry. Another suggestion is to learn about how aircraft work – what the flaps, slats, elevators, ailerons, rudder, etc. do, and how everything has a backup and most of the backups have backups. These engineers really know what they’re doing, and you’re quite safe. I don’t know how one would really go about doing this, but it might also help to familiarize yourself with all the little noises that an airplane makes normally (landing gear going up and down, landing gear doors opening and closing, flaps extending/retracting, engine RPMs changing, someone flushing one of the airplane’s toilets, etc).
Maybe also learn about the aviation equivalent to “the rules of the road”, i.e. that cruising aircraft must maintain a horizontal separation of at least 8 miles from other aircraft at the same altitude, and a vertical separation of at least 1000 feet from other “layers” of traffic. It’s not like there are other aircraft swarming all around you – I tend to look out the window about half the time, and I almost never see another plane while we’re cruising.
Good luck – I went to Hawaii (the big island) for the first time in January, and absolutely loved it!
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