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I get claustrophobic at times on flights. Thus why I always get an aisle seat.
1 posted on 02/22/2025 11:04:25 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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In before the William Shatner picture.


2 posted on 02/22/2025 11:05:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I have a couple drinks before I board...

Kinda upset me when we flew from NY to Ca to Hawaii...and everyone clapped when we landed. STG

3 posted on 02/22/2025 11:09:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I stopped flying when I decided that my company wasn’t paying combat pay. Flew after that to the Star Trek convention in Texas when I decided the panic was worth it. Was put next to an astronaut who pulled down the blind, explained every sound we heard and told me that all airline pilots are brain dead. I’ll stick with trains.


4 posted on 02/22/2025 11:10:00 AM PST by mairdie
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Either he has aerophobia or he doesn’t. If he does, I guess the flash cards don’t work.


5 posted on 02/22/2025 11:15:09 AM PST by MNnice
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I prefer to have a parachute and the doors or the back tail gate open, sitting inside a locked up passenger plane with zero flexibility in the situation is a little disturbing.


6 posted on 02/22/2025 11:15:42 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes.


7 posted on 02/22/2025 11:17:40 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.


8 posted on 02/22/2025 11:19:27 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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When I was little I got scared just standing on a chair. Now I fly bizjets at 35,000 feet.


9 posted on 02/22/2025 11:20:54 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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It’s not that I’m afraid of flying, it’s only that I’m afraid of screaming while dying while flying.


10 posted on 02/22/2025 11:24:25 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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,,, at 66 years of age all I want is a seat close to a toilet, especially on a long/ultra long haul. In my youger days it was good to get a window seat but now with Airbus having cameras on the tail and under the fuselage you get an idea of what’s outside from the IFE screen. Flying doesn’t concern me but crashing does - as many people say, the chances of that happening are much higher driving to the airport.


14 posted on 02/22/2025 11:35:27 AM PST by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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I don’t fly mainly because my ears feel like they are going to explode. I’ve tried everything. Nothing worked.


15 posted on 02/22/2025 11:36:38 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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Valium.


16 posted on 02/22/2025 11:44:01 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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18 posted on 02/22/2025 11:45:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Drink heavily, everybody knows that.


20 posted on 02/22/2025 11:46:14 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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This is crazy. I love to fly. It's a speed jones. The miniscule disaster potential makes it interesting and sharpens focus.
24 posted on 02/22/2025 11:47:38 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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If I can’t afford business/first class seats for next trip, I will not fly. Period. Had enough of standard class conditions. On one recent flight there was a very sick child in seat behind me and the plane was full. The child was in pain and cried loudly every 10-15 minutes. I rarely see young children in first class.


25 posted on 02/22/2025 11:48:44 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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If you see DEI in the cockpit, best not to fly, at least if you’re going to a tricky place to land (such as DC, or during a Toronto snowstorm).


26 posted on 02/22/2025 11:49:22 AM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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In light of the recent flight incidents and accidents,I gave it up 20 years ago.


29 posted on 02/22/2025 12:10:25 PM PST by Vaduz
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I find that a few days before flying I get all stressed out.

Its not because I fear flying its because I always get jacked up by TSA. I find if I have a few classes of wine before I get in line I rather enjoy the free full body massage I have come to depend on.


31 posted on 02/22/2025 12:38:50 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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Aisle seat, naw. You can’t see the engine on fire.


34 posted on 02/22/2025 1:17:15 PM PST by CodeJockey (ATCG (whatever that means))
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