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How to stop being afraid of flying: tips from an experienced airline traveler

September has arrived, which means it’s time for the long-awaited study abroad tours. For some, traveling by air is an exciting part of a new adventure, but many people experience stress and extreme fear of flying, notes the author of the channel “Walking Around the World” on “Yandex.Zen”. Next - from the first person.

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I even have friends who travel exclusively by land transport because of aerophobia. Therefore, I decided to talk about how I myself stopped being afraid to fly.

The first time on board the plane I was 11 years old, and flew without parents, as part of a group to study in England.

Then everything was new, unusual, and I was so carried away by what was happening that even the thought of fear did not arise.

But the fear came with experience, by the age of 25 every flight was torture for me: all the way I held on to the armrests, counted the minutes, and my thoughts, of course, were only gloomy.

You sit like this for about 3 hours and listen carefully to all the sounds: how the engine works, the landing gear is retracted, the flaps move. You study the facial expressions of the flight attendants and try to guess if they are in anxiety state. And I don't want to remember the turbulence zones at all.

But frequent flights soon became part of the profession, so I had to deal with my fears and give myself the opportunity to see the world.

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Aerophobia is not only the fear of disasters. As a rule, it is associated with other fears, because some are afraid of heights, while others are afraid of closed spaces. My story is the fear of losing control of the situation. In general, I think it’s a very philosophical question: where do the boundaries of your own area of ​​responsibility end, and when can you trust your life to someone else?

For myself, I determined that when buying a plane ticket, I transfer responsibility for the duration of the trip to the airline. I trust their experience, the ability to maintain their aircraft fleet, hire and train pilots and flight attendants, provide passengers with the necessary level of safety and service, quality food, and so on. No matter how well-read and experienced I am, it is unlikely that I could understand these issues better, right?

And somehow I was flying pregnant, and on the way I read an article in a magazine about the fact that women giving birth cease to be afraid to fly. I don’t remember exactly how this was argued, but it convinced me, and such self-hypnosis helped me to feel more calm about flights in the future.

Then there were numerous flights across the ocean, with two transfers, 40 and 50 hours on the way, flights on double-decker and 6-seater planes, over the Bermuda Triangle and landing in a severe blizzard. And although there is no longer that fear, but there is even some pleasure from realizing oneself in another plane, from feeling the speed of movement between time zones, from one's ability to change the surrounding reality in a few hours, all the same, during takeoff, no, no, and a thought will slip through about the transience of life.

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But how cool it is that there is this opportunity to travel, that it is available to many, that you can fly with a transfer and build any route for yourself. And, statistically speaking, airplanes are the safest form of transport. Every day, about 120 thousand flights take place in the world and about 12 million people move in the air (naturally, data before the pandemic).

Original column published on the blog. “Walking Around the World” on “Yandex.Zen”

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