If you're afraid of flying, what is it that scares you?

[Rajah]

I'm not really very afraid of flying. I'll fly without a problem as long as the plane is big enough (I'm not too comfortable with small planes, because of fear of air sickness -- the smaller the plane, the greater the turbulence, the sicker I get). For me, the two parts that make me a little nervous are takeoff (where the fear is that the flight control tower got something wrong and two planes will crash) and landing (fearing that we'll have a blowout or spin out of control or hydroplane or not stop soon enough and crash into a building at the other end of the runway...). Flying itself I enjoy a great deal, as long as I can see out and it's not rough.

Now if I can't see out (I don't necessarily have to have a window seat, but I do have to be able to see out someone else's window), *then* claustrophobia sets in and I start to panic. But as long as I can see out (even if it's nothing but clouds outside) and it's not too turbulent, I'm fine.

 

[Rajah]

I'm not really very afraid of flying. I'll fly without a problem as long as the plane is big enough (I'm not too comfortable with small planes, because of fear of air sickness -- the smaller the plane, the greater the turbulence, the sicker I get). For me, the two parts that make me a little nervous are takeoff (where the fear is that the flight control tower got something wrong and two planes will crash) and landing (fearing that we'll have a blowout or spin out of control or hydroplane or not stop soon enough and crash into a building at the other end of the runway...). Flying itself I enjoy a great deal, as long as I can see out and it's not rough.

Now if I can't see out (I don't necessarily have to have a window seat, but I do have to be able to see out someone else's window), *then* claustrophobia sets in and I start to panic. But as long as I can see out (even if it's nothing but clouds outside) and it's not too turbulent, I'm fine.

 

[LovesDoomBuggies]

Once I am in the air, I'm fine (unless we hit turbulence or something), but during take off, I just feel like there are so many little things that could easily go wrong. I always picture some horrible Challenger-type explosion or something like that. You know that movie Final Destination? While the movie was not that great, that scene in the beginning with the fire in the plane always runs through my head as we're taking off. =/

Terrorists don't really even cross my mind. Not enough to worry about them, anyway.