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Across the Fence:  Do you have a fear of flying??  |
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
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 Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 08:06:05 AM
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Is it wimpy to admit that I hate, hate, hate to fly? I don't like the feeling, I don't like the sounds and I don't like the close quarters. It's bad enough that I'm afraid of heights, but boy, get me in a plane and I'm begging for valium!! What about you? Anybody else out there a weenie too? :-)
My son took me flying on Sunday. I wrote about the trip and put up pictures at the blog if you want to see what northwestern Oklahoma looks like from the air from a really, really little plane! Not sure I'll be doing it again, but it made him happy and that's what it's all about, right?
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Mary Beth
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Edited by - Okie Farm Girl on Nov 11 2011 08:31:45 AM |
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Lieberkim
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kimberly
Sunnyside
WASHINGTON
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 08:44:14 AM
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I understand your feelings. I'm a pilot's daughter. If my Daddy is at the controls, I'm good because I'd trust him anytime, anywhere in any situation. But you put someone else at the controls and I get nervous. But my real FEAR is the ocean. Boats and I are not friends. I was in a ship once that tried to go down. Worst storm, captain of the ship said we can't go, politician got involved and forced them to. STUPID, never tell a ships captain or a pilot when it's safe to go. Those waves were incredible and that was not a fun trip.
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 08:54:03 AM
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Oh man I love flying-the feel of the jet,the sound of the engines,and watching the ground race away from you as you take off. Turbulance isn't fun,however,and it always seems to hit when A cup of coffee is delivered to my seat.  Boats I'm not afraid to be on even tho I don't know how to swim. (I know that's not logical) I do get spooked in swimming pools because I don't know how to swim. I think most people are afraid of doing at least one thing whatever it may be.
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 11:10:51 AM
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Can you say drugs????!!!!! Each time I get on a plane I have to take my go to sleep drugs just before i get on so I sleep the whole trip.....I found out years ago I am no so scared of the plane but not being in control of the situation....so instead of climbing the cabin walls I sleep....Trips that go on for too long mean alot of meds but so far I have not screamed or climbed over the seats...lol...Michele'
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
1674 Posts |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 11:18:57 AM
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Oh my gosh. I hadn't even thought about boats. Hmmm. Not sure I'd be as bad on a boat as on a plane. At least the boat isn't in the air!! But Kimberly, that story is pretty scary so I don't know about boats either. If my son buys a boat too, I may just have to give up going to see him!
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Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 11:20:39 AM
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Nope, not at all! I don't much like the cramped seating, but since I know that will be the case I try to pick my seat if possible, and defintely plan for all of it. The absolute worst part of all of it is going through security . . . YUKKKK!!!!! AND, I'm not particularly fond of going through immigration and customs when flying to and from another country. BUT, I know that I have to do that so I can sort of prepare for that as well. Just put another stamp in my passport please! :)
But it doesn't bother me in the least to fly . . . I've been in two-seaters, commuters, BIG planes of every description, have flown over the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Have flown in helicopters and even with the doors off . . . I love that!
CJ
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 3:32:06 PM
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Me! I HATE airpalnes. I flew all the time when I was a kid, from Ga. to Calif. But always at night. The last time I flew was 3 years ago from Denver to Portland Or. I was a nervous wreck. I could not take my hands off the seat in front of me. And it was a few days before Halloween with a whole bunch of college kids. They got up after the plane took off and gave everyone candy the whole trip. They had to put mine on my lap.It was awful.
And I have had so many opportunities to go to Italy and the Virgin Islands, paid for, but I am too scared to fly across the oceans. I did say that if Mrs. T is able to go to Italy next summer, I am going to go. There really is NO excuse and this is a once in a life time trip for me. It's so stupid not to go.
And there is NO way I would EVER go on a cruise. Never. My hubby wants to go and I said he will just have to take the kids. I'll stay my scared self at the house.
Kris
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 4:14:43 PM
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I would be the one you all would be reading about on the front page of the newspaper, total panic, and complete freak out, the air marshel would be tackleing me and duct tapeing me to a seat with a gun to my head for the remainder of the flight, to the closest airport to take me to jail, that is if I didn't die from a massive heart attack first...so NO, I will not fly, if I can't drive oe walk there, I'm not going!!!and no one can make me...
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MEWolf
True Blue Farmgirl
358 Posts
Margaret
Byers
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 4:14:46 PM
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I adore flying! Matter of fact if I was not a farm girl with loads of animals, I would be a travel girl with a packed bag by the door! I find it so exhilarating! But then I used to technical climb mountain faces and rappel down too LOL :-D
Margaret
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
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Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 4:52:45 PM
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I'm terrified of heights, and airplanes. My first service date at the USO Post was to send off National Guardsmen. Outside, on the tarmack, was a huge plane. The other girls, and our resident grumpy old man, tried to get me to come up and watch the civies that had loaded the plane as they rode the conveyor belt down. It took them five minutes to even get near enough to the window to watch. I was shaking! I am 31, going on 32, and I have never stepped foot on a plane.
Oddly enough, I should be more afraid of helicopters, but I would be more willing to fly in a chopper than a plane!!
Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
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Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 5:10:40 PM
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Unfortunately, I think about Physics.
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 5:28:58 PM
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teehee one_dog! No kidding!! When I was a little girl, my Daddy lived in Africa for a year, and one trip home, a Nigerian Air plane sat on one side of his plane. He watched it for a moment, then looked out the other side. A HUGE crash came from outside and when Daddy looked back, the engine of the Nigerian Air plane had FALLEN OFF!!! 
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Pflugerville, TX |
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
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Posted - Nov 11 2011 : 5:35:44 PM
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I'm only nervous when taking off and when landing, but not much. I know how to swim so I'm not afraid of boats. You couldn't get me to skydive unless my life depended on it. I'm also more afraid of dogs than I am of flying.
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Edited by - FarmDream on Nov 11 2011 5:36:14 PM |
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
1599 Posts
Winona
Central Oregon
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 02:47:41 AM
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It's the sudden stop when the plane plows into the ground that deters me.
Ships, I'm cool with that. Boats, not so much.
For some 'venting'-type of entertainment, please read my blog, http://lostadventuresintrucking.blogspot.com . Now with pictures!!
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 07:37:43 AM
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I don't mind flying, but I have inner ear issues and often have headaches during takeoff and landing or if the air pressure in the cabin changes. And when there is turbulence my head feels like a huge rubber band being stretched and let go. For these reasons I'd much rather drive or take a train, but I love traveling so I've learned to just deal with it to get where I want to go.
I am however, not a water lover. I enjoy canoeing and kayaking, but put me in a bigger boat and I'm not a happy camper. The only big boat trip I have ever truly enjoyed was the Gota Canal ride between Gothenburg and Stockholm in Sweden. Most of the trip is on a canal and except when we were traveling across a lake or through the islands near Stockholm I could jump on and off the boat and walk alongside. I think that freedom is what made it enjoyable for me. Also being able to see the shoreline helps alot. I don't think I could every stand to be cooped up on a cruise ship.
I have a ton of respect for my ancestors who spent 30 days on a ship bobbing across the ocean to get to America! Can you imagine what they might think to know that it is now possible to get there in less than a day?
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
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Edited by - edlund33 on Nov 12 2011 07:39:17 AM |
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
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njaw09
True Blue Farmgirl
397 Posts
Annie
NJ
USA
397 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 09:10:32 AM
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I don't mind flying. I even rode on a helicopter once. I am afraid of heights though but I can't let the fear overtake me.
I am not afraid of boats (canoe, motorboats, sailboats) also even though I am not a good swimmer.
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 09:58:40 AM
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I love flying in a privite plane. I don't mind, flying commercial but absolutely refuse to fly anywhere. I think all the search/xrays are unconstutional. Just because you buy an airplane ticket, they do not have the right to search you at the airport anymore than they have a right to come in your house and go through your underware drawer.
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Heartbroken farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annette
rio vista
Ca
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 10:34:36 AM
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Oh I HATE to fly!! I hate the airport, even when I'm picking someone up or dropping them off! I am terrified for them. They just got out of, or are on their way up into, the air! Ahhhh!!!! I successfully avoided flying until my 22nd bday. A family member was getting married, and I couldn't get a babysitter for the length of time it would take me to drive to los vagus from sac. My ex-husbands grandmother wouldn't let me miss the wedding, so I was handed a plane ticket. It was only a 52 min flight, but it felt like an eternity. The flight there was fairly uneventful, but home was a nightmare for me. Tons of turbulence, screaming sounds from outside the plane, jerking around, I believe I bruised my SIS-in-laws arm in gripping her for my life!! That was my very last time on a plane.
In two months, I am to fly to Florida with my DH, to get to the port for a cruise. I love the water, I adore cruise ships, I love to travel, and am terrified to fly. It has held up back quite a bit. Id so rather take a train, car, boat, bike, walk... LOL. So I swallowed my fear, and booked the cruise for Feb, as a Christmas present for my DH, and I had to book a flight...God help me!! I'm claustrophobic, afraid of hights, and severely sensitive to medications, so I can't take anything. My poor DH, he may not be all that excited about the trip after our flight to the port!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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Edited by - Heartbroken farmgirl on Nov 12 2011 10:37:46 AM |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 12:23:01 PM
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I LOVE flying. I´d better love it because I fly to Thailand every year lol. A 13 plus hr flight. The only drawback is that since I am tall...not enough space for my long legs haha. Been to the USA as well, and also did an flight to another state then. AND to Australia that too almost 36 hrs.
Put me on a plain and I am happy. Been on good flights and bad once...not so funny with the bad ones but hey...it is way more dangerous to drive a car (or ride a bike lol) than to go in a plane
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
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Posted - Nov 12 2011 : 8:17:27 PM
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Yeah, Marian, I bet you DO have to travel alot. I would love to go to Europe sometime, but just don't know if I could handle the flight. Bleh. I was thrilled to be able to make my son happy by letting him take us up. It was kinda weird having my son as our pilot!! But it was so good to see him smile so proud. I guess I've done my mom thing for the next several years!! ;-)
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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SusanScarlet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 12:19:47 PM
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I'm an old flight attendant. I love to fly. The sounds of taking off and landing sound beautiful to me. Now that I now longer work, when I fly I actually enjoy the time in airports waiting for my flights. It just feels familiar - LOL. I guess it all depends on your life experiences. I've always loved this poem and thought it might calm those of you that struggle when you fly:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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Tea Lady
True Blue Farmgirl
645 Posts
Lorraine
Morris
IL
USA
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Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 2:07:40 PM
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I love to fly - and had to fly a lot this year for work. I'm not wild about the work part - but flying is fine. I still love to look out the windows (although on big jets I chose aisle seats) and marvel at the landscape below and the clouds all around... Also, I love an adventure and hope to travel more for fun instead of work soon. We've been to England several times and can't wait to go back. I'm not so crazy about boats - never wanted to go on a cruise - although, I like sailboats - its so quiet and peaceful.
Susan - that's a great poem.
Lorraine
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SusanScarlet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 2:42:50 PM
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| Thanks, Lorraine. I think it's lovely also. It's sort of known as a pilot's poem. It was written by a pilot during WWII. I'll never forget President Reagan reciting it during the memorial for the Challenger astronauts. |
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Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Nov 13 2011 : 7:14:01 PM
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I use to, I had to be sedated to fly. But I was in Dallas Texas when 9/11 happened. So I asked GOD to help me and protect me when I had to come back to GA. And I wanted to be alert just in case I was sitting near a person that didnt seem if they were acting right. I still have butterflies in my stomach when the plane takes off. To give you an example my DH and I went to Hong Kong this past April. I did real good.
Deborah
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Do you have a fear of flying??
