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yeah but what I mean is that it is irrational to be afraid of flying in an extremely safe, well-built plane, but not scared of being in a car, which is one of the most dangerous modes of transport around. Or a train, or whatever.
I'm not saying I don't understand it - I get a bit tense too, i'm just saying that once you realise it's irrational, you can relax a bit better. In my experience anyway.
Also lol @ TAT being a hipster. Knew it.
flighting is so weird. like i've never really been scared of flying and i think it's kinda cool but there are moments when i'm suddenly just very, very aware of the fact that i'm literally sitting on a chair flying somewhere over the sea and while it's not fear per se there's this sense of mild uncomfort when i realise how trapped i am there
thing is even if the engines stop working, the way an aeroplane works means that you won't just drop, it'll glide.
I've never flown at all, so I might well have a fear of flying and not realise it.
Although my experience with heights leads me to believe that I'll be alright, as long as I'm not somewhere like at the top of a wobbly ladder or inching along a narrow ledge on a tall building. I find such things quite nerve-wracking.
Irrational is not the same thing as inexplicable. Evolutionary explanations don't change the statistics that show the relative safety of flight compared to other travel modes, although they could provide clues as to how we might address such fears. It's interesting that ed miliband mentions the loss of control factor, as I suspect that's actually a large part of the fear for a lot of people, perhaps feeding into the whole "if something goes wrong I'm as good as dead" thing mentioned by Mr Populi.
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isn't train travel the safest form of travel?
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dunno but still got the lack of control cos you're not driving the train
Whenever I'm on a train I think, the worst thing that could possibly happen is the train derails, but even then there's a high probability that I'll survive...assuming the train doesn't crash into a fireworks factory or something
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I'm perfectly aware of this, but I still have the feeling the plane will drop at the smallest sign of turbulence or anything similar. I fucking hate flying.
I'd get drunk, but airport bars are expensive as fuck.
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even sounds like the friend i'm going to see, 'cept he's a short-arse.
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I usually take like a fuck loads of klonopin, valium, librium, xanax, thc, h, etc. when I have to fly. I hate it, especially considering they now tell how how high you are and how fast you are going on those little screens in front of you on some planes. Fuck all that.
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I love flying. You can finally find out whether those weird environmental anomalies that you saw on Google Maps were just glitches in photography splicing or the real thing.
I hate the take-off and landing, though. Horrible.
I usually just look out the window at the landscape, or read a novel.
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