tomorrow i leave for texas for a week.. im flying in a comercial jet liner then we land in houstan then a turbo prop or something small to dallas..

i hate flying.. i dont enjoy it.. how can people enjoy this kind of thing.. couple miles up in a metal tube in crampt spaces.. the only part i like is landing.. and i hate take off.. which i get to endure two times tomorrow.. i bought a book to keep my mind busy.. but i dont think that will work.. ive tried the dramamine stuff.. no use my will to not die in my sleep keeps me awake.. maybe ill take some tomorrow so ill be in a constant drugged state.

advice? i know dont call the stewardess ... stewardess

Drive? I've come to dislike flying too. Some guy tried to take away my cigar cutter at the gate. Lame.

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cant drive.. school is paying for the ticket since its for a competition..we have to bring tools with us for one competition and a hacksaw is one of them.. i hope they dont fret over it since its going under the plane

I have become phobic of flying...I have flown, but ever since I got cable TV and watched several shows over the years showing how little it takes to make a plane auger into a cornfield at 600MPH I'd just as soon avoid it altogether.

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i was told its safer to fly in a plane than drive... sure..... i like being a foot off the ground compared to couple thousand feet.. ive got my dramamine ready..


im going to bed now.. if i can find free internet in my hotel ill post and let you all know i lived.. if the news tomorrow has an alert on a plane that took off from orlando international to houstan that dissapeared off the radar... i knew ye well... oh god i hate flying

If you think flying in airplanes is tough....

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Badda-boom!

I cannot bear it either,plays hell with my claustrophobia and other lack of control neuroses.

Whenever I must fly it's always first class and I consciously sedate myself with Benadryl and Alprazolam.....

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I grew up on airplanes, I sleep on them. Every now and then you get on one and the expressions on everyone's faces are like they have seen a ghost. That is a little spooky. Hope this helps to ease your apprehensions.

Don't eat anything with chili on it before you fly.

Once when I was about 19 or so I flew out of Shreveport. I sat next to an Air Force colonel. We chatted and since I was new to flying I asked what was going on and he went through a pre-flight checklist as we were pushed to the taxiway. When the airline captain gave the full throttle for take-off I happened to glance at the colonel's hand gripping the arm rest. He was white-knuckling the take-off but sounded calm as a radio announcer.

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I'd rather fly inside a plane than outside...

How could you have a fear of flying? I fly alot, and i have alot of trust in the people that thay put in charge to fly you back and forth.

i do agree that they have really tight security though. i got my finger nail clippers taken from my personal carry on though. but hell, as long as my flight is on time, i am happy.

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it's automatic.

i cant sleep... the only part im looking forward to is the flight in the turbo prop.. i prefer smaller planes to larger ones... when i was younger like pre kindergarten my dad would take me on flights in small planes to his aunts house in upstate new york.. mostly in small turbo props and lears that he knew the pilots of that were traveling up that way... i liked flying in those... but i have no idea where my fear of the larger planes came from.. i love how they work, the mechanical engineering involved in everything in them, the safety features, the structural integrety and how well it must perform. maybe the fear is understanding all or most of the mechanics of the machine it self, knowing what can fail, and when....yar maybe if i had gotten interested in the FFA i would be more concerned about corn than my planes engine dropping off at 34,000 feet

It's not the 30,000 foot fall, it's the abrupt stop. And remember since man's first flight, no airplane has failed to come down.

talk to your doctor he will give you a few zanax tabs. my last flight from fiji islands to LAX was nearly 11 hours and the seatbelt sign was off for maybe 20 minutes. if not for the xanax i would have ripped out a window and jumped out of the plane.

I don't mind airplanes it's the people on board, I would rather charter a Cessna 172 and piss in empty beer bottles than fly commercial.