Fear of flying Course Feb 28th
Hi Keith,
I just wanted to write here while I have things so fresh in my mind from the brilliant course on Saturday.
Firstly, thank you so much for addressing my MANY TIRING questions so thoroughly, there was nothing I felt that we didnt cover re certainly my personal terrors and just hearing about everyone else's fears and realising how similar we all are gave me so much strength. It was sometimes hard to hear the honesty and there were no false promises but strangely the truth helped me more. No you didnt promise me planes do not crash or that nothing bad would ever happen again but you challenged us to think about likelihoods and statistics and facts facts facts! Stop with the what ifs and deal with the facts.Planes do crash yes...but VERY RARELY.
Some v interesting things have happened to me since yesterday, firstly I keep going over all the things you said re your views on flying and various topics we covered which I have read about so many times in your book and heard on the CDs but somehow hearing it from you on the aircraft and actually showing us different routine scenarios with the model aeroplane seemed to normalise it so much for me. This morning i woke up and thought "Flights are routine, pilots have rostas like i do at work...it is actually like taking a bus...airbus...." all great thoughts and then...suddenly the words..."as it tore through the fuselage" popped into my head! What? And immediately I realised that is not something that I would ever say or even think, it is straight out of rubbish media reports but the power of those silly words...tore through the fuselage? I dont even know where I read that. And it becomes very clear again as it did yesterday the amount of damage I have done to my progress by reading anything and everything on plane crashes and I will do my very best to stop from now on.
Thank you again for your support on Saturday and for being so patient, lets hope i can cement thse positive beliefs about the safety and normality of flying and slowly cancel out all the old terrors PING and start again with FACTS and PROBABILITIES.
Oh yes...and BREATHE
I just wanted to write here while I have things so fresh in my mind from the brilliant course on Saturday.
Firstly, thank you so much for addressing my MANY TIRING questions so thoroughly, there was nothing I felt that we didnt cover re certainly my personal terrors and just hearing about everyone else's fears and realising how similar we all are gave me so much strength. It was sometimes hard to hear the honesty and there were no false promises but strangely the truth helped me more. No you didnt promise me planes do not crash or that nothing bad would ever happen again but you challenged us to think about likelihoods and statistics and facts facts facts! Stop with the what ifs and deal with the facts.Planes do crash yes...but VERY RARELY.
Some v interesting things have happened to me since yesterday, firstly I keep going over all the things you said re your views on flying and various topics we covered which I have read about so many times in your book and heard on the CDs but somehow hearing it from you on the aircraft and actually showing us different routine scenarios with the model aeroplane seemed to normalise it so much for me. This morning i woke up and thought "Flights are routine, pilots have rostas like i do at work...it is actually like taking a bus...airbus...." all great thoughts and then...suddenly the words..."as it tore through the fuselage" popped into my head! What? And immediately I realised that is not something that I would ever say or even think, it is straight out of rubbish media reports but the power of those silly words...tore through the fuselage? I dont even know where I read that. And it becomes very clear again as it did yesterday the amount of damage I have done to my progress by reading anything and everything on plane crashes and I will do my very best to stop from now on.
Thank you again for your support on Saturday and for being so patient, lets hope i can cement thse positive beliefs about the safety and normality of flying and slowly cancel out all the old terrors PING and start again with FACTS and PROBABILITIES.
Oh yes...and BREATHE
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For those that don't know, PING is the elastic band on your wrist that you have to PING ...ouch it hurts...everytime you have a negative thought about planes and aviation.
As I asked Caro and the others on the course. What has been the benefit of looking at accident reports and 'Black Box' programs?
Their answer ...no benefit.
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