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Anonymous Sun 11 Jan 2026 09:47:39 No.2063067 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2063089 >>2063135 >>2063219 >>2063355 >>2063716 >>2063740 >>2064104 >>2064106 >>2064110

>Why are you so afraid to fly anon?
>You're just going to be in an air-tight cabin seated for several hours 40,000 ft in the air going at 600 mph in a machine being controlled by someone you don't know
How am I supposed to get over this fear?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 11 Jan 2026 14:04:42 No.2063084 Report

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That is a cool tailfin logo. Did poland crashed all their cool soviet kino airliners so now they have to buy boeing "actually it was a brown gay female's fault we made a single point of failure plane and told everyone it's the same thing but if they correctly diagnose a problem they were told doesn't exist in under 10 seconds they might not die as long as the failure happens during a relatively forgiving phase of the flight" products if they wanna crash?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Jan 2026 14:46:35 No.2063089 Report

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>>2063067
You just learn to accept statistics and live your life by logic and real odds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jan 2026 01:37:13 No.2063135 Report

Quoted By: >>2063153 >>2063219

>>2063067
Have you flown before, or is this anxiety over doing it in the first place?
One thing that might blow the anxiety away is grabbing a window seat and taking in how amazing it is to see the world from the air. The magic of it still hasn't gone away for me a dozen flights later. I bring small binoculars with me to better enjoy it.
Then again, that may just make things worse if it doesn't manage to completely drown out the anxiety? I don't really have an anxiety disorder, so maybe I'm a bad point of comparison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jan 2026 05:59:41 No.2063153 Report

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>>2063135
I don't fly often, I've maybe taken 5 flights in my entire life, I never used to be afraid to fly but I've developed one after flying through some rough turbulence, and I think it's mostly just the turbulence that makes me nervous, even if I know the plane is still safe, I don't like the feeling of bumping around while I'm in the air and I've seen some pretty insane instances of turbulence online where shit is just going all over the place and the plane has to make an emergency landing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Jan 2026 01:44:49 No.2063219 Report

Quoted By: >>2063238

>>2063067
it's like being on the bus but statistically less likely to crash or involve you getting stabbed over 3$

flying is still annoying though, if there isnt an ocean in the way, i'd still take the train just for comfort reasons

>>2063135
imo this is like half-true. but im also afraid of heights. the first bit of takeoff is always terrifying but once we're at as little as 500ft the wonder outpaces the fear, but takeoff and landing looking out the window make me feel like looking at a train wreck that i am actually inside right then

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Jan 2026 01:50:09 No.2063221 Report

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>>2063153
Look at the flight attendants and see how calm they are. They go through turbulence, probably worse than what you're experiencing, regularly. If they're not panicking, you have no reason to. Also don't fly a 3rd world carrier, you very rarely see US or Euro airliners go down for mechanical or pilot issues.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Jan 2026 11:28:59 No.2063238 Report

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>>2063219
Learning how takeoff and landing works in a plane might help in your case. Like, play a flight simulator or something and do the lessons for take-off and landing.
The reason I say that is that take-off and landing are some of the most interesting parts of looking out the window for me, because I love doing shit like "scoring" the length of the take-off run, the positioning of the touchdown point, how complicated the approach pattern was. That and just being closer to the ground gives better views of stuff.
If you put yourself "in the pilot's mind" so-to-speak, you might give yourself both more to think about (keeping you distracted), and give yourself more certainty about what you're experiencing ("we're turning around right now because our approach was from the East but the active runway right now is 270").

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Anonymous Tue 13 Jan 2026 13:39:46 No.2063240 Report

Quoted By: >>2063242 >>2063277 >>2063282 >>2063802

Last time i was on a plane was the first time in over 15 years and i admit when the pilot yanked the controls and the plane felt like its was going vertical on take off it did pucker up the ol butthole a bit

Thought it was a smoother thing but it felt like he thought "fuck it" and just maxxed the controls out kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Jan 2026 15:02:31 No.2063242 Report

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>>2063240
Sometimes they will do that if there are noise constraints from the NIMBYs around the airport. Like usually right after the runway it's poors, but then you go a mile or two more and it's richies and they get very up set when they hear a plane. So the government agrees to make it noisiest right at liftoff so the noise only affects poors. Then when they're over the rich they throttle it back a bit, and once past the rich they go back to climb power.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Jan 2026 02:42:34 No.2063277 Report

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>>2063242
I mean, more like the faster the aircraft climbs, the faster the noise falls off due to distance. So they aggressively climb.
>>2063240
With modern avionics, that is pretty much what they do. The aircraft's equivalent of a speedometer has a little marker that's programmed with the maximum climb speed, and you just yank the controls back until you are riding the marker. And then it let's you know (ping or flashing message) once you're above the noise control altitude so you can release the throttles from take-off settings, let out some of the pitch, and start climbing at a normal pace.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Jan 2026 04:08:13 No.2063282 Report

Quoted By: >>2063729 >>2064167

>>2063240
I swear this varies based on the airport. Flying out of Houston Hobby usually feels like blasting off in a rocket, whereas IAH normally feels like a more sedate climb. Maybe the other anon is right and it's NIMBYs, Hobby is in the middle of town, whereas Bush is on the outskirts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Jan 2026 01:45:08 No.2063355 Report

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>>2063067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j1xJIdodY0

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 10:32:06 No.2063716 Report

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>>2063067

I know it's a meme to say this but there are so many checks and balances on a commercial flight that it's practically impossible for something to go wrong, vs some drunk who gets in his unmaintained shitbox and crashes into someone killing or maiming them as what happens multiple times a day in every country

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 14:58:14 No.2063729 Report

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>>2063282
>NIMBYs
Why don't you try having 2 planes a minute fly 600 feet over your roof at takeoff thrust all day zoomie

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 17:43:45 No.2063740 Report

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>>2063067
First of all there are NO parachutes on board! I don't know who needs to hear this but you have to understand you are fucked if the plane gets in trouble. Also these things have ZERO fucking defenses against AA and SAMs and shit. If they get you in missile lock your fucking toast.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 17:50:34 No.2063741 Report

Quoted By: >>2063801

just last night i had a dream that i was descending in an airplane. the pilot was banking a turn to line up for the landing strip and then i heard someone say "aww fuck" and suddenly the plane began to stall and we began spinning in a freefall. i could see the ground getting closer and closer, and i was like well, i guess this is it. and then i woke up. it felt real though. i simply accepted death knowing that there was no escape. better to be quiet about it than scream like a maniac in my last moments, like most people do

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 20:37:21 No.2063749 Report

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>2 million people fly each and every day and every single one gets to their destination safely
>but I'm a special little boy that I'll surely die because I'm the main character, obviously

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Anonymous Mon 19 Jan 2026 21:58:58 No.2063760 Report

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Anonymous Tue 20 Jan 2026 11:29:18 No.2063801 Report

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>>2063741
Was it the cj "aaah shit here we go again"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Jan 2026 13:39:45 No.2063802 Report

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>>2063240
This feeling is probably exacerbated by the inner ear getting fucked up. We humans didn't evolve to go that fast. The inner ear might confuse the acceleration for a pitch up, and thus making you feel like your about to do a loop.
>>2063740
Yeah, good luck jumping out of an airliner. I'm almost sure you're baiting, but in case you're not... You'd get obliterated by the engines or horizontal stabilizer. That is, if you even get out. Above 10000ft. you only have a few seconds of useful consciousness, and the doors of airliners aren't designed for having people jump out very quickly. And again, that's if the general public (read: complete retards) even dare to jump without any prior training.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 08:43:55 No.2064104 Report

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>>2063067
Have something worth doing that's far away which isn't locally available, also has to be relevant to your interests or your job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 08:50:47 No.2064106 Report

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>>2063067
>air-tight cabin
Wrong, it's just pressurized from inside with normal air.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 08:54:30 No.2064109 Report

Quoted By: >>2064112 >>2064115

>>2063760
>> ferry accident rate is half that of cars but more than rail, bus, and airplane combined
Was there some massive US ferry accident I am not remembering?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 09:02:37 No.2064110 Report

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>>2063067
Actually not bad as you think.
>be me
>first time on airliner
>paid first class window seat
>20 minutes later of waiting for people to settle in and flight checks to be done
>on the runway finally
>watch the magic of ascension unfold
>enjoy the view at cruising altitude
>landing was smooth
>disembark the plane
>actually saw the cockpit of the plane
>holy fuck it's cramped quarters
overall, it was good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 09:09:07 No.2064112 Report

Quoted By: >>2064200

>>2064109
ferries are pretty safe and sea travel is highly regulated. but there was a HUUUUUGE one in corea you may be thinking of

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Jan 2026 11:00:00 No.2064115 Report

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>>2064109
Possibly that the number of ferry trips that are extremely short distances (acting as a "bridge" before there's funding for a permanent bridge) makes for a high number of opportunities for an incident but with a comparatively low number of miles. Even if those incidents are just "drunk person stumbles overboard."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 01:39:51 No.2064167 Report

Quoted By: >>2064168

>>2063282
Try taking off from John Wayne. Planes practically go into a stall pitch on takeoff so the rich folks living at the beach aren't bothered by the engine noise

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 02:34:13 No.2064168 Report

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>>2064167
Planes take off North from John Wayne because everything north of it is just the Irvine and Tustin business complexes and then the foothills. It's not just richfags by the beach, the airport is surrounded by suburbs and bedroom communities from the West, South, and East where UCI is. I can already faintly hear the fireworks from Disneyland from my house every night, I don't need to hear constant plane traffic, I already experienced that when I lived up near LAX

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Jan 2026 14:31:15 No.2064200 Report

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>>2064112
>sea travel is highly regulated
It is because of all tragedies and accidents that happened in the past.

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