how can i stop being afraid of planes?

Question

I never used to be afraid but for some reason ever since I last travelled (las summer) I've been afraid.

Answer 1

if you are in the plain try these idias
Act like a movie star.
Ask someone for their autograph, pretending that you think they're Tom Cruise or Madonna (This best when the person looks nothing like the movie star in question)
Ask the guy next to you to hold your dentures (senior citizens only)
Ask the person next to you, "Are you in the Witness Protection program too?"
Attempt to promote Hinduism among passengers
Bring a "Word-a-Day" calendar on board with you. Read every single word aloud and attempt to use it in a sentence. Use them all incorrectly. "My, you have a very irate home,' she said governessly."
Bring a cellular phone. Call God. Say, "The reception is much clearer up here...."
Bring a duffel bag packed with pipe cleaners, styrofoam balls, construction paper, etc. Organize a "Kraft Korner". Make a craft likeness of the person sitting next to you. Give yourself an "F".
Bring a microphone and act like Frank Sinatra
Bring your computer keyboard without a monitor. Place it on your lap. Stare into the palm of your hand. Wait. Push the return key a few times. Yell out "Yes! Alright! I told them I didn't need a laptop!" Plug the headphones into your nostril and play Doom.
Call the stewardess "nurse".
Continually offer to share your "Beano".
Decorate. Bring a scatter rug and tiny draperies. Hang a "Home Sweet Home" plaque on the back of the seat in front of you. Invite your fellow passengers in for tea.
Describe your sex life in great detail to the five-year-old next to you
Disco dance in the aisle
Don't use deoderant, then "accidently" stick your armpit in someone's face
During the inflight movie, ask to share headphones with someone
During the meal, loudly explain that on time you ate shark fin soup and proceeded to puke all over the airplane, spewing chunks of shark on the other passengers
Explain how, one time, the plane was crashing and the oxygen masks didn't come out, 'cause they aren't really reliable, and that if the plane was to crash, everyone would die
Fart loudly and act shocked, looking around to see who did it
Fiddle around with the emergency exit, then ask a fellow passenger if he has a crowbar
Get some rub-on tattoos and a leather jacket, pretend that you belong to a biker gang
Give someone a coin, saying "Heads, I detonate the bomb. Tails, I don't"
Go into the bathroom and make rude bodily noises, then come out looking refreshed.
Go into the bathroom, drop your pants, then come out, yelling "We're out of toilet paper! Stewardess!"
Go into the cockpit, ask the pilot in an obnoxious voice "Why do the call it the COCKpit?" then snort as if it's the funniest thing in the world
Go up to someone and ask loudly if they wouldn't mind applying Preporation H to your hemrrhoids.
Hum the Monty Python theme song.
If someone has a bad toupee, whack it off.
Jump up and scream "AAAHHH!! I left the stove on!!"
Lead a bible study session in the back of the plane.
Lead a revolt against the first class passengers.
Lean back in your seat, fold your arms behind your head and exclaim, "Thank God for auto-pilot, eh?"
Mess up your hair, untuck your shirt, basically look crude, and mingle with a first class guy as if you were long-lost friends
Moon passing Delta planes.
No matter what the meal choices are, demand rice-a-roni.
Pick your nose and pat the person next to you.
Pinch the stewardess' butt as she passes.
Pretend you're flying the plane.
Put on a ten foot diameter sombrero and slouch in your seat, whacking everyone on the head.
Remark that perhaps you shouldn't have put superglue in your undies that morning.
Ride carry-on luggage down the aisle, yelling "Yeee-ha!"
Say, "Did you know every time a plane crashes, an angel gets its wings?" Then sigh and stare dreamily into the clouds.
Scratch your butt, then sniff your finger.
Scream and dive under your seat for no apparent reason.
Show off your Batman underwear.
Sing along with the songs on your Walkman.
Snap Polaroids of him or her. Pull out an empty photo album and arrange the pictures inside it. Tuck the album under your jacket and say, "You know, in some cultures they believe that when you take a person's photograph...you own their soul...," while smiling maniacally.
Sneeze, using somebody's sleeve instead of your hand to cover it
Snort when you laugh
Speak in Spelling Bee-eese: "Hello. H-e-l-l-o. Hello. Nice weather we're having isn't it? Weather. W-e-a-t-h-e-r. Weather."
Spill soda "Accidentally" on the person next to you.
Sport a kamikaze helmet and goggles. Speak in a low voice into a hand held tape recorder: "Today's date, December 7th, 1941. I was not able to command my own personal plane but success shall still be ours...."
Start a hot dog stand.
Start singing the Shari Lewis theme, "This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that never ends...." Suddenly realize that you can never stop singing. Become very panicky. Scrawl "Help me" on a piece of paper and hand it to the person sitting next to you. Claw at your throat and thrash around in the seat. Never stop singing.
Steal a businessman's laptop, play solitaire on it.
Suddenly remember that you left your iron on. Ask if the pilot would mind going back so you can check.
Switch accents and see if anyone notices.
Tap at the windows, saying "Looks pretty tough" then ask somone if they have a bat you could use to test.
Tell corny jokes and laugh like it's absolutely hilarious, then expect others to do the same 46. Wear a hairpiece and switch it often, seeing if anyone notices
Tell the person next to you your life story, from DNA to that afternoon
Tell your fellow passenger that you just heard the bathrooms were out-of-order. Then pause and say, "Did you know that peanuts are a natural diuretic?" Smile.
Try to lead plane in song "Oh I wish I was an Oscar Myer Weiner"
When there's any nudity, say "Hey! He/she must be real cold!"
When they ask something, pretend that you don't know and you have to go ask someone else. Repeat wtih every question. (ie., "How are you today?" "How can I help you," "what would you like to order")
When two people kiss in the film, belch real loud.
Whip out your kazoo and give first class a special entertainment show.
With a desperate look, ask the stewardess where the bathroom is, then look relieved and say "Nevermind. Do you have any towels?"
With a fellow passenger, Re-enact the disco scene in "Airplane!"
With the person next to you, discuss cannabilism among airline crash passengers on deserted islands.
Yell out, "John Lithgow is on the wing!"

Answer 2

i wished i could help u, if u foound a way to get rid of ur fear let me now!im afraid of flying since i can think...i have to make a flight soon...well its just a short flight but im still scared to death and not sure how im gonna stay cool...i did a few flights, all within panic attacks...i just cant relax on a plane...but usually when u tell the flight attendats, they take care of u and look after u! i really appreciate if they do that, because that helps me a lot! i always dream about crashing while sitting on a plane...what im trying to think, is that if something happens, i cant change it anyways...hmm even if that doesnt help at all lol on my flights before 9/11, they brought me into the cockpit which really helped me a lot, well at least for this moment! one time i was in the cockpit for the whole flight and even when we were landing...what a pity they are not allowed to do that anymore...
i even read a few books about planes and flying...maybe it helps u if u can understand it!? well and there are still some lessons u can make! in germany they are very expensive, so i cant afford it, but i heard they are quite good, so maybe u could try that...
good luck

Answer 3

What are you afraid of? The heights, the mechanical bits around you failing or the cramped space, etc?????

Identify that first, and don't le the fear stop you flying.

When I fly, I fear mechanical failure of any sort. I still get on, I can feel my heart beat and I want to get off. I sit with someone I know, I take deep breaths and I play music. I try not to think about the noises around me.

The other thing, and this helps immensely, is get to know what happens on a normal occurance. What sounds are normal, what behaviour is normal. That way you'll know that things are alright.

Answer 4

I spent most of my life avoiding flying altogether, and I flew for the first time when I was 65! My wife and I flew the Atlantic from the UK to Canada. All my fears were without foundation - I enjoyed all of it, especially the take-off, which was exhilarating. I think the thing to remember, perhaps, is that in the UK alone, 3,500 people die on the roads - that is the equivalent of approximately one airliner crashing every month. Flying is the safest form of travel. Relax and enjoy.

Answer 5

i'm! properly, no longer a lot the airplane, yet I almost were given hit by a terminal % poo that keen to pass skydiving from a severe altitude jet. i replaced into digging some potatoes out of the veggie backyard for mom one Saturday morning even as all of unexpected this positively frozen pooperoid Plummeted down by the cloudcover at a shallow attitude, smashed a panel out of the decrease back fence, torpedoed previous me exploding a pumpkin into 10kg of poopsicle pumpkin soup, smashed a hollow by the shed, busted 2 cans of (yellow) paint and to ultimately skidded to a halt on the ft of our sleepy previous hound canines, who immediately away theory dinner replaced into served. Planes. i do not think ém anymore. SPIT THAT OUT YOU MUTT !!!! .

Answer 6

First of all... let the attendants know of your fear. I personally have a fear of sitting behind the wing..(yep, it sounds ridiculous), but fears are real if you have one...I went through every mind scenario from... it's safer than the freeways..I could get hit walking on the sidewalk..etc..etc... finally I got a prescription for some xanax and it takes the edge off. hope this helps.....and know that some of us DO understand.
Aloha

Answer 7

The best way is to get on one for a really short flight. Tell the flight crew your situation and they will do everything they can to make you feel confident and safe. If that goes well then work you way up to longer flights.

Good luck :)

Answer 8

never travel by plane,
live in underground bunker,

Answer 9

you just got to let go and let god in and everything else will be alright the fears will pass

Answer 10

Have you're heart checked up and go fly........