First time flyer - My big concern other than crashing is air sickness!

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rclanzillotto

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I used to be anxious about Flying. To gain perspective, I would arrive at the airport early and count how many planes took of and landed while I was sitting there. At this particular NY airport, it was about one every minute. Given that we hear about every major airplane accident on the news, this helped convince me, that flying is safe. Good Luck.
 
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Jim Wynne

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I will be going on my first flight ever. Any tips? My big concern other than crashing is air sickness. Thanks in advance and prayers are appreciated.
FWIW, I've been subject to motion sickness my whole life, to the point where I couldn't go on a playground swing when I was a kid. Air travel has never been a problem for me.
 

Randy

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#13
Hey, look at me, over half a dozen aircraft crashes of different types and causes, one ejection and I only walk funny occasionally;) (Of course they were all military aircraft)

Commercial? Like some of the others here, I'm a Million+ Miler and flying is no more that an fast shuttle or taxi ride to work. Get on, relax, take a nap and leave the driving to them. (An ipod really helps too)
 

SteelMaiden

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I get terrible motion sickness (like Jim, even playground equipment could make me hurl) but, like others, my air sickness is much less worrisome. I do get airsick sometimes, but not nearly as severe as if I have to ride in the backseat of someone's car.

Just keep telling yourself how safe flying is....it's the landings and the take-offs that are the most dangerous:notme:oops. I probably shouldn't say that should I? Keep plenty of gum, or hard candy to help with the dry air and the elevation changes.
 
#15
My big concern other than crashing is air sickness.
Small wonder that it will be your first flight, then. I don't know if I can calm you down, or indeed if I even should. This kind of fear cannot really be explained away as it is not rational, it just happens to be there. Nor is it unusual, quite the contrary. You are in good company.

What I can tell you is that I have flown with many anxious passengers myself, and I think that some of those few who actually felt tummy flutter inflicted it on themselves due to their own very fear that it should happen. One piece of advice: Some people are so afraid of being sick that they do not eat before a flight, thinking that this will save them. Beep! Wrong move!: This will nigh on ascertain that you get sick, so don't fall into that trap. Eat just as usual.

Other than that, you can try to bring an mp3 player with some soothing music or whatever helps to make you calm and maybe something to read, or a crossword. You get the idea: anything to keep you occupied (anything but booze which seems to make matters worse rather than better).

/Claes
 

Wes Bucey

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Do not, unless you are a regular imbiber, drink alcoholic beverages to "calm you down." In my million plus miles over the last forty years, almost every passenger I've ever seen succumb to upset stomach in the air has had enough alcohol to get sick on the ground.

Eat light BEFORE you get on the plane - forget plane food if you have a tender tummy. Stick to water or ginger ale while in flight (The ginger in ginger ale does help upset stomachs.) Sip - don't gulp!

Flights are MUCH smoother now than forty years ago. Cabins are better pressurized, so even the ear popping is down to a minimum. Loosen your tie (if you wear one) and try to get up to move around the plane a little during the flight to prevent pooling of fluid in your legs from sitting in one position too long.

Just in case - check the seat pocket in front of you to make sure there is an air sickness bag or bring a couple of gallon size ziplock bags folded in your shirt pocket.:uhoh::eek::yuk:

There is one good side to getting airsick - you'll have a great story to tell!;)
 

SteelMaiden

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#17
Flights are MUCH smoother now ......
Yep, passangers no longer have to push the plane off a huge cliff or dune and then jump on, and you wont have to pedal or flap the wings yourself, they have big engines that do the work now. (My apologies to Wes, I just couldn't resist....I'm going straight to the hot place, I know.)
 

Wes Bucey

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#18
Yep, passangers no longer have to push the plane off a huge cliff or dune and then jump on, and you wont have to pedal or flap the wings yourself, they have big engines that do the work now. (My apologies to Wes, I just couldn't resist....I'm going straight to the hot place, I know.)
Maybe it wasn't QUITE that primitive, but more than a third of my air miles were in propeller-driven airplanes and most of the airlines I flew on with props or jets are no longer in existence (Eastern, TWA, Pan Am, Braniff, etc.)

I also remember (before deregulation) chartering small aircraft to take a team into and out of a small town to avoid having to stay overnight and the net cost of the charter to carry four or five passengers, including tip to the pilot(s), was often less than two first class fares on commercial aircraft.

Another icky factor folks flying US airlines don't have to worry about any more was the number of smokers on a commercial flight. I recall a common tale going around then that plane cabins held air pressure better after two or three years than when brand new because the tars from the cigarette smoke would seal all the microscopic leaks.
 

howste

Thaumaturge
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#19
Indianapolis-Hartford via Baltimore
Back the same day via Chicago.
When are you flying? I'm actually in Hartford right now. Are you going to come and visit me? :agree1:

I've flown well over a million miles, and I can only remember gettting airsick one time. That was in a small chartered airplane (2 seats) flying low through rainclouds over the hills of Pennsylvania.
Yep, passangers no longer have to push the plane off a huge cliff or dune and then jump on, and you wont have to pedal or flap the wings yourself, they have big engines that do the work now. (My apologies to Wes, I just couldn't resist....I'm going straight to the hot place, I know.)
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
 

Randy

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#20
I've flown well over a million miles, and I can only remember gettting airsick one time. That was in a small chartered airplane (2 seats) flying low through rainclouds over the hills of Pennsylvania.

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Apparently you've never been in a C-130 with 80 some odd other guys that had the heat turned on, doors closed in July right after a greasy breakfast.........Barf City........and real slippery out the back:lmao:

That's how the US military makes paratroopers aggressive;)
 
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