I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked

I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/topic/1884/t/I-Fly-A-Lot-But-a-Hop-Over-the-Pond-Has-Me-Spooked.html en-us Copyright 2006, Kickapps feeds@kickapps.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@kickapps.com (WebMaster) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:59:17 GMT Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:16:24 GMT Kickapps Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://kickapps.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://kickapps.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Re: I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked ]]> http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/6585/t/I-Fly-A-Lot-But-a-Hop-Over-the-Pond-Has-Me-Spooked.html#reply-6585
But over the ocean, it's just water, sky, and clouds. There's something about flying over the ocean that I find truly serene and comforting. On our last trip over, as soon as the video screen showed us passing the edge of land over Newfoundland into the N. Atlantic, I remember turning to my wife and smiling. Of course, she was already asleep, so I just looked like a grinning idiot.

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I'm excited for you, going to Rome!! Congrats on the anniversary. If you decide NOT to go, though, I'll take your seat. Won't be as romantic... ]]> feeds@kickapps.com (OneAnt) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/6585 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:16:24 PST <![CDATA[ Re: I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked ]]> http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/6579/t/I-Fly-A-Lot-But-a-Hop-Over-the-Pond-Has-Me-Spooked.html#reply-6579
For some reason--some non-reason!--I share this fear. Why? As the Captain says, not once has such an event ever happened! Isn't that odd that we've invented this fear?

In situations like yours, when I am concerned about two flights, I find that the only way to not torture the people around me and ruin everything while on the trip is to act "as if." Even when I do have anxiety flare-ups, I pretend that I am not. Eventually in this process the lunacy of my fear becomes somewhat apparent to me. And then I become convinced that I am brave. You're brave too!

Eventually I start laughing at myself by the time I realize that if my plane suddenly does break into a million tiny pieces, well, I'll be dead! And then I won't care! So what am I so worried about? Look: we're all gonna go sometime. If we become obsessed with controlling our own death, we might as well get it over with right now. Or, you know--we... ]]> feeds@kickapps.com (flier) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/6579 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:20:13 PST <![CDATA[ Re: I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked ]]> http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/reply/6574/t/I-Fly-A-Lot-But-a-Hop-Over-the-Pond-Has-Me-Spooked.html#reply-6574 feeds@kickapps.com (Capt Tom Bunn MSW LCSW) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/sreply/6574 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:16:31 PST <![CDATA[ I Fly A Lot, But a Hop Over the Pond Has Me Spooked ]]> http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/topic/1884/t/I-Fly-A-Lot-But-a-Hop-Over-the-Pond-Has-Me-Spooked.html feeds@kickapps.com (UndueBurden) http://fearofflyingmessageboard.com/topic/1884 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:59:17 PST