Concern over flying?

[splashmountain31]

Anyone scared to fly after the latest plane crashes (5 of them)? Anyone have any tips to avoid the anxiety???????

 

[lovin'Mickey]

I HATE FLYING!!!! I freak out everytime we do it. However it is the fastest way to get there. That being said, I do fly. I have no tips as to how to get thru it I just put on a smile and try to not let my kids see my fear. My children and my Hubby love flying. If there is tuberulance I actually cry, no one can tell but I get real quiet and start feeling like I can't breathe. Hubby knows and tries to help calm me down by saying things like we are gonna be with Mickey in 2 hours or at home. However none of this really helps. You are not alone, many people fear this part of there trip, but you do get there fast!!! Which makes the trip more enjoyable. Sending you all the pixie dust for a safe flight!!!!!

 

[PinkCinderella]

I dont really like to fly because I know it is not likely at all for anything to happen. I always get nervous and have stomach aches! On the takeoff my mom always cries (shes getting better at not doing that) so I squeeze her hand. Also sometimes she takes this medicine.... I forget the name (if you want me to ask her what it is PM me) I dont really know what it does but she doesnt feel bad as much and wasnt as nervous. I dont know much about it so Im kinda clueless! lol Well one trip when we went to Disneyland Paris, she took the medicine for the plane but a while later when we went to Dinner and she couldnt even remember what we did or ate! Haha! Well another good advice that I will give to you is Pray... Pray all the time! At night, before you leave, on the plane... anytime! I do and it always makes me feel better. My mom and sister also do it. That is what I do so it also may work for you. Hope it helps!

 

[KristiKelly]

We are flying for the 1st time since 1999. I am not looking forward to it at all!!! I'm afraid I won't really be able to enjoy the trip because I will be dreading the flight home as well. I'm going to pray, pray, pray!!!

 

[Zoesmama03]

Well plane crashes are rare and having had them I feel comfortable the odds are we won't have one.

I still worry a tad only because its dd's first plane ride. I've been on many.

I didn't know there was sooo many plane crashes recently. I know of a few but they were all small non-commercial flights which is more likely to crash than commercial jets.

Was there some big commercial ones I've missed?

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Like many others, I was on the road for business when 9/11 happened. I was 2000 miles from home, so driving back was not an option for me. There was nothing more nerve racking than getting on a plane the first day they were allowed to fly again.
But guess what, I survived. I also had to get back on a plane the next week, and the week after that etc. I figure if I could get through that, then I could get through anything.
Please, just try to take some deep breaths and don't let your imagination get carried away. Here is some pixie dust for you and please don't let it ruin your trip
Best wishes

 

[HappyMommy2]

I am a nervous flyer but actually I feel a little better flying right after a crash is all over the news--I feel like maybe the airlines are extra vigilant and careful immediately after something happens. I don't know if that is true but it helps me to think that way!

 

[WIDisneyFan]

I am a very regular flyer (at least 3 or 4 times a month) so I find it easy - as for a few of my family memebers they think I an NUTS !!!! (and I guess in part they are right) but what has worked well for them is to keep themselves occupied while on the flight - read, listen to music, watch a movie (portable DVD players have come down in price) just do something other than listen to every sound and feel every bump. Beyond that just try to relax and enjoy - and just keep reminding yourself whats waiting at the end of the trip

Hope you have a magical vacation !

 

[Nancyg56]

I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. I've always liked to fly, but the last crash gave me a jolt. This is the first trip that we will have my GDD,who will be 4, and I have been a wreck. DH commented that he would drive, and my DD and I jumped right on it. She was looking for a van to rent for the trip from CT, and beginning to plan it out. Then my DH, who drives for a living, and has always refused to go anywhere on vacation that he needs to drive, said he was just joking. Oh, well, 2 1/2 hours....2 days....

 

[Zoesmama03]

My problem isn't fear of death, no fears there really. Its fear of surviving and being lost alone in woods or worse over ocean(very very afraid of sharks).

I have odd fears. LOL This is from someone afraid to vomit.

 

[jaame]

I am very nervous at the thought of flying again. I haven't flown since 1998. It never used to bother me. I am definately not looking forward to flying in October but then I think about all the time we'll save. We were able to almost double our actual days in Disney by flying instead of driving!

 

[rchristiansen]

Anyone scared to fly after the latest plane crashes (5 of them)? Anyone have any tips to avoid the anxiety???????

Here's a little blurb they don't report on the news - All of the successful take-offs and landings. (From the National Air Traffic Controllers Association Website). That always puts my mind at ease when I fly.

On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies in the United States. Only 35 percent, or just over 30,000 of those flights are commercial carriers, like American, United or Southwest. On an average day, air traffic controllers handle 28,537 commercial flights (major and regional airlines), 27,178 general aviation flights (private planes), 24,548 air taxi flights (planes for hire), 5,260 military flights and 2,148 air cargo flights (Federal Express, UPS, etc.). At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the United States. In one year, controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and landings.

For every one flight you see listed on an airport monitor, two you don't see show up on air traffic controllers' screens. It would take approximately 7,300 airport terminal monitors to show all the flights controllers handle in a single day and approximately 460 monitors to show the number of flights being handled at any one time.

 

[kkaisu]

An Ativan and stiff drink in the airport lounge

This is what my SO(his first time flying) had to do when we flew to Vegas a couple of months after 9/11. He slept from Omaha to Salt Lake City.

 

[splashmountain31]

My problem isn't fear of death, no fears there really. Its fear of surviving and being lost alone in woods or worse over ocean(very very afraid of sharks).

I have odd fears. LOL This is from someone afraid to vomit

I am laughing my head off...

And the atavan (sp)...believe me I would if I knew my little peanuts would't be depending on me. Perhaps a stiff gin and tonic at 7:00am would do it??

Thanks all..

 

[pdchris]

I love to fly and would do it a lot more often if I could afford it. The only thing I don't like is landings; I keep thinking about how much force is being exerted on the landing gear.

 

[Honeybehr1]

My son hates to fly (that is why he doesnt know we are flying in Oct) He ped prescribed Vallium for him to take. We have a test run with it this weekend to see how the dosage is.

Not exactly what I want to do but I think its the best choice for him and his anxiety

 

[mylilnikita]

I don't mind flying even though the take off part I dont get happy with. I have a funny story: About 13 years ago, my parents and I went to Tennessee for a couple of days then to Orlando. My mother hates to fly, I am talking sitting in the middle of my Dad and myself and gripping our hands even before we left the runway. Years before, my Dad was stationed in Azores islands twice and on the way back to the island, Mom was in a big military cargo plane and the island is small and she had a scare. Anyway, the flight from Orlando back to Virginia, as we were landing on the runway, a dark substance was dripping from the overhead compartment. Mom freaked thinking the plane was going to crash because she thought the dark liquid was brake liquid. When we landed, the stewardess opened the compartment and a man's hair dye had leaked out. That was the last time she went on a plane.

I do admit to counting the seats to 2 different exits. I also know not to wear certain clothing when flying in case something happened. Now, small commuter planes scare the heck out of me, I always fly the big ones.

 

[MN Dis Fans]

My worst time was always take off and landing until I watched some Primetime or Nightline or some other show about a tricky flight. Whatever you do don't watch any airplane movies before !!
I have a special perscription for anti-anxiety meds - my family doctor was very understanding. It just seems to make me mellow, and I listen to calming tunes. My family probably wishes i would take the pills everyday! I like to say the Rosary during take off.

 

[zookeeper]

I was just talking about this with a friend and her opinion was that plane crashes seem to be this summer's "shark attack" story. You know how the media really focused on those shark attacks that one summer even though statistically the number of attacks wasn't any higher. The media seems to be reporting on plane crashes of smaller planes that wouldn't normally make the news. BTW, I've decided to buy into her theory because I'm a really nervous flyer and this will be the first time I've flown with my kids. I'm hoping that I'll be so occupied with them that I won't have too much time to worry about everything else.

 

[mom2kazkids]

My DH totally hates to fly. In the late 90's, early 2000 we did go to Las Vegas 3 years in a row and he tolerated the flights. In 2001 one week to the day after 9/11 we left to adopt our children from Kazakhstan. That meant flying Green Bay to Chicago, Chicago to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Almaty, then on the way home Almaty to Moscow, Moscow to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Chicago, and Chicago to home. Needless to say we have not seen the inside of a plane since. Even this past May when 4 of us could have flown to WDW for about $500 out of Midway, I could not get him to budge. So we drove. Our next trip will be May 2007 and I am trying my best to convince him to fly.

Barb