@ aenigma!!

if you don't particularly want to take drugs there are these special wrist straps that calm the nerves. They sell them in the airport. I haven't used them before but I bought similar ones for car sickness - for some reason I can't travel in the car for too long during the day time. At night though I am fine
Anyway the straps work for me and it is completely drug free which is even better

I know exactly how Deli_kizin feels! Aargh! Only the thought of having to go back to Holland next week! I just cope with it by sitting down and not looking outside.. Imagine that Im being in a train .

I do the exact same things when I think of flying!!! The sweats the panicking and I'm sure its not the thought of motion sickness, its my uncontrollable fear of heights and DEATH! I can't even stand on a chair to change a light bulb without breaking out in a sweat. I'll check out all these suggestions as I am planning to fly for the first time in april. Also I have spoken with a doctor about getting some valuum, maybe a suggestion for you Deli_kezin. At least for the first time. If not I'm afraid I might be running around the plane screaming at the top of my lungs (like I do on a ferris wheel) LET ME OFF!!! STOP THE RIDE!!!! I'M SERIOUS CARNI I"M GONNA KILL YOU!

for those who havent flown before the flight is "usually" very smooth and apart from engine noise you hardly know you are moving, sometimes there is a bit of turbulence (sp) but its no worse than a bus ride.
i really have been frightend all my life of the take off but having been faced with many flights in recent months i have over come my fear, a few butterflies as the engines roar and tearing down the runway but no more adrenaline rushes, uncontrolable shakes and tears and no more pills for me unless i want to sleep on a lengthy flight

Jackie
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i blame final destination and 9/11 for these fears of flying.it seems to have become much more common since then.we have more chance of getting rundown by a car in the street than a plane blowing up or crashing.personally i love planes but i can't go on one for at least another 3 and a half months

hang on in there people

According to a report in todays newspaper(Daily Mail so it must be correct )in spite of a 4% increase in air travel there has been a 11% drop in fatalities.For planes carrying 6 or more passengers there were 156 crashes in 2006 against 178 in 2005.According to the report 75% of the accidents involved small light aircraft.

i love flying but i am claustraphobic and germaphobic so my fears revolve around being trapped in that damn cabin breathing everyone else's air....but give me a couple shots of patron before the flight and who the hell cares!!!