bigblockz8
Pre-takeoff checklist
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Gore
I'm planning a trip to Hawaii for next summer. I am afraid of jets though. Irrational fear considering that I don't mind a glider I just helped assemble while at 8,000ft. Plus as any normal person will attest to, I am crazy since I like to fly "little" planes. It's not a fear of control either. If another pilot is flying I don't mind. I think I could successfully have a controlled crash of anything up to a 747.
My thing is the jet if that makes sense. I don't mind 200kts or 220 at FL whatever. I'm fine with turboprops. Fine with gliders. Fine with helicopters. Fine with hang gliders. Not fine with jets that go so fast and high! I'm debating about greyhound to California and then some good sleeping pills until Hawaii?
I have confidence in the trained professionals that know 3000x more than what I know. The jet itself is the problem! Well my fear of the jet. Airbus I dislike for other reasons though. When I took a flight on a 737 I liked the takeoff and landing. The climb was fine but around the FL's came the sweating, chills, dry mouth, and shaking. Also a death grip on the chair.
Anybody else have this fear? How do you deal with it? How have you gotten over it?
My thing is the jet if that makes sense. I don't mind 200kts or 220 at FL whatever. I'm fine with turboprops. Fine with gliders. Fine with helicopters. Fine with hang gliders. Not fine with jets that go so fast and high! I'm debating about greyhound to California and then some good sleeping pills until Hawaii?
I have confidence in the trained professionals that know 3000x more than what I know. The jet itself is the problem! Well my fear of the jet. Airbus I dislike for other reasons though. When I took a flight on a 737 I liked the takeoff and landing. The climb was fine but around the FL's came the sweating, chills, dry mouth, and shaking. Also a death grip on the chair.
Anybody else have this fear? How do you deal with it? How have you gotten over it?