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I still hate it...it scares me shitless,last year i had a very bumpy landing at Birmingham Airport...i ended up holding the hand of a Baggies fan who delighted in telling me i was the only man hes ever heard scream out loud!
In short i know i have more chance of perishing on the Motorway driving to the airport but i still dread it and end up sitting in my flight seat ,not eating drinking or talking for the whole flight..with just the occasional scream....anyone ever had any bad or good experiences?

I'm planning on learning to fly within the next 2 years... flying is fascinating stuff!

I often fly with a mate who is scared off flying and he will only fly if he gets a window seat does my head in as i never get to sit next to the window. Anyhow we were going to munich and it was cold as fuck we came into land touched down but whereas when you noramlly land you start to slow down this didn't happend the engines were going mad in full reversve but we still didn't stop you could hear the wheels screaming still didn't stop speeded up again and the plane went sides then took off for a second go. On the seconded landing we started to slow down but the plane spun around to the left a little. I was shitting it, my mate who is scaryed of flying was just staring straight ahead white as a gost well funny!

Just think of it like this if it all goes wrong and the plane crashs you are more of less certain to die so at least you won't have to worry about ending up in hospital and catching mrsa. Every cloud has silver lining

leaving on a jet plane don't know when I'll be abck again.....................

If I fly I have to sit near the window. I used to be fine at flying but I am somewhat worried about it now. Prob from watching old air crash things. I then realised that the reason I worry now is because you used to get music etc to listen to on long-haul flights etc to take my mind off it.

A few beers dont go amiss- I'm ok when I get in the air its the take-off that does me in. Landings are fine.

I love flying. If I had 20/20 vision then I would've joined the RAF to become a pilot. But alas, I don't.

My sister is scared of flying.

I had driven her to Lullsgate once several years ago and waited with her in the airport. We were watching planes come in and land, and one had smoke coming out of its landing gear. Fire tenders went out and doused the wheels with water.

About an hour later my sister had to board the very same plane to fly to Greece. She was petrified.

Flights are pretty boring. A bit like when you're on a train for a substantial amount of time.

my worry is less about the actual flying but rather who you might get stuck with on the plane, no nothing like.....

We came back from Florida one year and this little kid has really bad food poisioning and was really ill and pretty much throwing up and shitting everywhere....

You can just crack open a window or anything....literally have to sit there with the smell humming around for a good 5/6 hours....not nice

That was like mk away minibus trip dan

i don't mind flying, the worst bit is that i'm very impatient when travelling so get bored and irritable.

only problem is that i get quite claustrophobic, so i can't relax at all on a plane.

The only interesting bits are take off and landing, and the occassional good view. The rest is dull. Had really bad turbulence on a flight once which was interesting and a bit nervy, you could tell the people who were proper scared because they were looking around all panicked.

I've flown backwards before.

fire exit seat?

no it was a converted dc10, and all the seats were facing the 'wrong way'. Strange experience.

did you all lean forwards during push back?

No drastically but you definately feel it.

I HATE flying.
I've read a book designed to help fear of flying but im sure it made me worse. My boyfriends brother is a pilot even talking to him cant calm me. I become totally irrational.
It's taking off and landing that gets me... coming in from Spain this year i put my top over my head like a little kid, it somehow helped.
I must look like a right retard on flights.

 Is that the Erica Jong novel in which she invents the zipless fuck?

On one plane trip I actually convinced myself it was going to crash... I've not been bothered ever since.

I hate airports... I was in this tiny hell-hole of an airport in Bergerac once and I got to passport checks and a woman quickly guided me away and into this horrible room with two guys in looking angry... I'm thinking it's time to stop worrying and love the rubber glove treatment while they emptied my luggage (which was perfectly folded!) and searched me... I'm soiling myself by this point.

Eventually they ask me what my music speakers were and went back to their clipboard... I stood against a wall for what felt like an eternity until they look at me with a "why are you still here" look upon their faces.

It wasn't fun.

I found this site quite helpful http://www.flyingwithoutfear.com/fearofflyingpodcasts.xml

It's natural to be scared, bombing around a few thousand feet from the ground inside an enclosed metal capsule, don't listen to anybody who says otherwise. It's mass social engineering at it's worse. If they can persuade you not to worry about that then they've got too much control over your emotions, what else are they capable of making you feel?

Saying that, I've never been too bothered about flying.

No one ever died from flying, it's the crashing bit that causes problems, so as long as it's flying why worry?

I used to be terrified of flying, my parents booked me a flight to America this year and i refused to go just the thought of stepping onto a plane would make me panic, but then the week before i thought why miss out on two weeks holiday. So i got some tablets from the doctors which stop you feeling any movement. Basically i used to feel every bump and every little movement and after my first ever flight being very very bumping and my dad having flown hundreds of times saying it was the worst flight he'd ever been on i ended up terrified of every little movement or shake, and i used to sure the plane was going to crash, but with the tablets i didn't feel any of that, so i didn't have to worry. You basically have to think, it's a means to get somewhere, i find taking a laptop really helps because it's a bigger screen than the ones of the plane, and you can take your own movies and with sound isolating headphones you don't hear any of the plane noises or anyone around you, and just forget about being on the plane. And i can honestly say after getting the tablets and having the laptop to watch i can't wait to go on my next flight!!!

I flew a little Cessna last year, t'was ace. If i had any money, i'd deffo learn to fly..... got a 13 hour flight to look forward to a week Saturday

thursday, 8:30 in the morning, i shall be boarding my first ever plane, and i'm plying to new york. nothing like jumping in at the deep end :D

Only on flights?

Ok sorry... and when in the company of si pie so he doesnt feel alone :p

Apologies are for retards.

I hate flying - for about a million different reasons - I always wear "proper" shoes on flights never flip flops or anything cause I always think that if you landed on like a desert island or something you might need to walk over rocks etc??

One thing you would NEVER EVER get me into is a helicopter - I HATE them 

I don't like flying, but it's more to do with my fear of heights... just the thought of being that high scares the life out of me!

Useful advice:

ALWAYS get a seat at the rear, as aircraft never back into mountains ... except in Russia.

Did anyone else find this very funny? I did.

The first 4 times I flew were two flights in a Gazelle helicopter that was a part of the Royal Flight based out of RAF Northolt, and two flights in a Chipmunk two seater including 10 minutes of aerobatics and 5 minutes of taking the controls under instruction. (OK those were the other way around I don't think I could have flown the thing after the 10 minutes of loops and barrel rolls).

Anyway it made flying in an airliner a pretty tame experience, and I've never been bothered by it.

And it's worth remembering that despite what you might think, a lot of people walk away from plane crashes. If you think about it the overwhelming majority of accidents occur either at take off or landing when the aircraft isn't at full speed or altitude (aeroplanes crashing out of the sky when flying at 30,000  feet is so rare as to be virtually unheard of). In a lot of airliner crashes there are very few fatalities. 

why the hell is that funny?

I'm surprised he never offered you a go on his Chopper...