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Originally Posted by Dawson70
This is a very interesting thread. I too have flown many thousands of miles in the air. However, since my wife and I took a flight to Tampa last fall, my nerves are failing.
My wife HATES flying and my job while we were in the air was to keep her calm. But ever since then, It is almost like she has passed her fear over to me. Is this possible? Well I guess I will find out in a couple of days. I have a flight to LA.
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Well, I made my flight to LA as scheduled. No problems here. The flight to LA was good and you couldn't ask for a better flight....smooth. The flight from Ohare to Central Wisconsin on the retrun trip, was a bit "rough". I didn't seem to care much, since I knew the flight was only 30 minutes. I guess my fear of flying has been capped for now. I don't think it ever really exsited, but I know anxiety can be passed from one person to another. As a Mechanical Engineer, I "know" what "could" go wrong with an airplane, but my mind knows that is a small chance of ever happening. I learned that over 97% of all air crashes happen between 0 and 10,000 feet. That is only about a 60 second window after take off and before landing. At 30,000 ft, even if the engines fell off, the pilot would have a LONG glide to any airport. In fact, there has only been one air craft break up above 25,000ft in the history of commercial flight (that wasn't shot down by a missle, in which I find more humours than likley).
The only problem I had, was the connection in Chicago on the way back. I had only ten minutes to reach my next gate, which was 10 minutes away. I did make it, but my luggage did not. However, they (United Airlines) dropped my suitecase off the next day at my house. Not a big deal. Oh, ya......TSA went through my suitecase on both trips, not a biggy either, but they took out my pack of cigs???? weird......
