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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

>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

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>>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

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

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>>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

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