Hello all! I need help and this is the last place I'm searching for help.
I hope you can be very understanding as this is very overwhelming. I am a fearful flyer. Absolutely phobic! I have taken the FOF course, and have visited the forums for help.
Unfortunately, there are probably only a couple of pilots and the rest are just like me - fearful flyers seeking advice. So, my threads never really get answered the way I want. I am leaving in two weeks and I am a mess. Please I ask help me feel at ease by sharing some information.
This is what bothers me: at take off, the plane is going so fast and all of a sudden it banks either way. I feel like the plane will roll-over. This is overwhelming. Also at take-off, I feel that so many things can go wrong, loss of power, engine fires, engine loss, mid-air collision, etc. The feeling of no control at that point is sickening. Then, there's the question if the pilot and the ATC are both on the same page.
Once reaching what you all call at cruise, then its the turbulence thing. Ok I will have to admit that I have been focusing on this for at least two weeks now and I have a good feeling about this. In lay terms, only little bumps in the sky - sort of like bumps on an unpaved/poorly paved road. I think I have made some stride. I always felt that the wings, plane, engine would break off. I have experienced years ago some bumpy flights.
Final decending and landing - believe it or not, this is total phsycological - I feel good. Kind of the end to a bad bad thing!
My last trip was in June (not by choice) I was flying my 13 year old son to TX for 2 weeks. Why didn't I just send him alone, my fear is so bad that I thought if something were to happen, he's not alone. The trip back alone was on a couple of beers and Atavin. My son kept saying "Mom, you'll be fine". Wise guy for so young.
Anyway, I am flying on AA757 ORD to San Jan then on a ATR 72 (I think) connect to ST. Thomas. Can you guys help me thru this process. The "no big deals/worries" w/take offs, cruise and landing...The noises make me go bonkers. All the dings - thinking the pilots are sending stress signals to the FA's. I will have to say, the Pilots and FA's on my last trip were incredibly empathetic with me. I was very pleased. Although, I have had FA's in the past that would make a comment like "Girl, if it were dangerous you think I'd be up here..." kind of comment. Well, no duh! But, when you suffer this type of phobia, it doesn't register.
Thank you in advance - I know, I know - this is not the right place (I think) to go, but In lieu of some therapy that I can't afford and someone talking to me that has never flown a 'fricken plane before, I'd rather take it to the Pro's. I wish I knew a pilot that I could talk to. This would be a super help!
Thank you so much.
Sandy
I hope you can be very understanding as this is very overwhelming. I am a fearful flyer. Absolutely phobic! I have taken the FOF course, and have visited the forums for help.
Unfortunately, there are probably only a couple of pilots and the rest are just like me - fearful flyers seeking advice. So, my threads never really get answered the way I want. I am leaving in two weeks and I am a mess. Please I ask help me feel at ease by sharing some information.
This is what bothers me: at take off, the plane is going so fast and all of a sudden it banks either way. I feel like the plane will roll-over. This is overwhelming. Also at take-off, I feel that so many things can go wrong, loss of power, engine fires, engine loss, mid-air collision, etc. The feeling of no control at that point is sickening. Then, there's the question if the pilot and the ATC are both on the same page.
Once reaching what you all call at cruise, then its the turbulence thing. Ok I will have to admit that I have been focusing on this for at least two weeks now and I have a good feeling about this. In lay terms, only little bumps in the sky - sort of like bumps on an unpaved/poorly paved road. I think I have made some stride. I always felt that the wings, plane, engine would break off. I have experienced years ago some bumpy flights.
Final decending and landing - believe it or not, this is total phsycological - I feel good. Kind of the end to a bad bad thing!
My last trip was in June (not by choice) I was flying my 13 year old son to TX for 2 weeks. Why didn't I just send him alone, my fear is so bad that I thought if something were to happen, he's not alone. The trip back alone was on a couple of beers and Atavin. My son kept saying "Mom, you'll be fine". Wise guy for so young.
Anyway, I am flying on AA757 ORD to San Jan then on a ATR 72 (I think) connect to ST. Thomas. Can you guys help me thru this process. The "no big deals/worries" w/take offs, cruise and landing...The noises make me go bonkers. All the dings - thinking the pilots are sending stress signals to the FA's. I will have to say, the Pilots and FA's on my last trip were incredibly empathetic with me. I was very pleased. Although, I have had FA's in the past that would make a comment like "Girl, if it were dangerous you think I'd be up here..." kind of comment. Well, no duh! But, when you suffer this type of phobia, it doesn't register.
Thank you in advance - I know, I know - this is not the right place (I think) to go, but In lieu of some therapy that I can't afford and someone talking to me that has never flown a 'fricken plane before, I'd rather take it to the Pro's. I wish I knew a pilot that I could talk to. This would be a super help!
Thank you so much.
Sandy
(They only do what pilots let them do.)
