Although air travel is one of the safest mean of transport, you may belong to the 25% of the population that still feels nervous or fearful about flying.
Fear of...
29/07/2021
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Fearless Flying
Every once in a while, it's unfortunately necessary that an underage child fly solo. Naturally it would seem to be a daunting prospect for both child and parent/guardian. But...
08/03/2021
For many people, fear of flying is really fear of feelings. Some of us regulate feelings of anxiety automatically. But others control them by controlling what goes on around...
19/12/2020
When fear of flying starts, it is sometimes because there has been a bad flight. But, in many cases, difficulty starts for no apparent reason. The average age of...
18/10/2020
Parents who are nervous or fearful flyers may sometimes wonder how they can avoid passing their fear of flying on to their children. Should they hide it? Must they keep...
20/02/2020
We have been flying airplanes since 1903. By now, virtually anything that can happen has happened. For anything we know that could go wrong, there is a procedure, a...
23/01/2020
Adekvat
As teenagers, we conducted our lives with remarkably little concern about risk. We seemed to think nothing could go wrong. When we went out for the evening and...
09/01/2020
Diy13
by Tom Bunn
When I’ve flown with anxious fliers, I found many to be extraordinarily sensitive to turbulence. For example, when one said, “What’s that turbulence?” I replied, “What turbulence?”...
12/12/2019
Over the course of many years of treating anxious and fearful flyers, I've come up with various strategies that allow them to manage their anxieties with some success, and...
28/11/2019
Following up on a recent post I wrote about air turbulence, let me note that pilots who conduct fear-of-flying courses are fond of saying “knowledge is power”. Most insist...
16/08/2019
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