Is it normal i never want to get on an airplane again

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Ive taken the airplane once and im still fascinated that I was in an exotic country for a whole week which was amazing (aside from 1 day of heatstroke) and im very proud of myself for actually getting on an airplane. I had nightmares about plane crashes for weeks before the trip and THE NIGHT BEFORE they showed Final Destination of ALL movies they could've shown on TV and intelligent as I am I watched it of course and had a dream that the plane crashed that night. Well I STILL got on that darn plane and i'm alive... I think. It was actually kinda chill after all but I am sensitive about my ears due to getting sensory overloaded easily by noise and stuff and its the pressure change when a plane lifts and lands... The fear of that had me in tears and I mustve looked like I was on dope or something because before the plane lifted a flight attendant asked me if I had partied hard last night??? I was like '???' plus I was obviously there with family and was a teenager. My ears survived too though but 2 years ago one of my friends had an incident on a plane where his ears got temporarily damaged by the pressure change and he needed to use some ear drops the whole vacation to treat that...Its just too much awfulness about flying. How scary it is (I know traffic accidents are more common but cars arent high up in the sky OKAY) and the whole pressure change thingy and it means theres many places i'll never get to see but I dont understand the big deal anyways or how its possible that so many people can take that for granted we could never afford travelling everywhere on earth growing up like everyone else seemed to do every holiday and cries about not being able to do now....Sigh. I think nature is really pretty here in my country.

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  • Boojum
    2 years ago

    I've never been really keen on flying. For me, it's the lack of control thing.

    If you're happy to limit your options by choosing to never again fly, that's obviously your choice. However, knowledge is generally a good antidote to fear, and there are some very good YouTube channels where pilots explain how planes work in terms a layperson can understand: what happens during take-off, cruising and landing, what all the different noises are, why things happen to the wings at various points of the flight, what's going on up on the flight deck and so on.

    As for the problems caused by pressure changes, there are simple techniques that can be used to deal with that.

    I find Mentour Pilot on YouTube very interesting, although reluctant fliers might want to avoid his videos where he explains what went wrong that led to crashes. But even those always explain how the disasters led to changes which make flying even safer.

    The psychology of perceived risk is a very interesting subject and, as you say, you're statistically much more likely to be seriously injured or die in a car crash than you are in a plane. In fact, the statistics say Americans are also far more likely to die from choking on food, falling down stairs, a fire, a cataclysmic weather event, sunstroke, a dog attack or even being struck by lightning than they are in a commercial airline crash.

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