Cabin Crew

Cabin crew are on board to help you, don't watch their faces for signs!

All  cabin crew have to meet certain educational standards and have to have a better than working knowledge of English, which is the language of aviation. Airlines, however will also set their own standards regarding fitness, educational and language requirements. The cabin crew are legally responsible to the Captain for the safety of the cabin and the passengers.

Highly trained members of the crew

Passengers have to obey the legal instructions of the crew who act under the legal authority of the Captain.  Fortunately the days of seeing them as Trolley Dollies and airborne waitresses are long gone.

Remember:

• The cabin crew are responsible for the safety of the passengers
• They are licensed crew members
• They are highly trained and checked frequently

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This is why our fear of flying course will get you flying

Do you want to fly with less worry? Do you want to be able to go on holiday without worrying about the flight? Do you want to be able to take a business trip, without making excuses not to go? Do you have friends and family living abroad that you want to visit?

Fear of flying
course

Our fear of flying course will help you to do those things.  If you have been searching the internet for a course that will help you to overcome your fear of flying then you will probably have seen everything from £10.00  miracle cures, to Harley Street specialists at £50.00 a minute. There are hypnotists, therapists, life coaches, airline courses and dozens more to choose from. But how can you be sure it will meet your needs to manage your fear, when you have to make a  choice based on a sales pitch or brand familiarity?

Our brand, and style, is here on this website ... this is the way we do things - we're open, honest, direct and treat you as an individual, a person with a fear of flying ... not as a customer.

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Successful Strategy to Overcome Your Fear of Flying

Let us help you to build a successful strategy to overcome your fear of flying

There are very few worthwhile things that can be achieved without a plan. Without a plan you don't know how you're doing compared with the  goal that you've set. I don't fly without a flight plan, and you wouldn't want me to ... now it's your turn to have one. You need a strategy to overcome your fear of flying. You must always remember that most people overcome their fear of flying.

 

Normalise flying because IT IS normal

Despite whatever you feel and however bad things may seem, you will overcome your fear if you stick at it. First, you have to know clearly what the nature of your fear is.

• What actually causes the feelings of fear?
• What are the thoughts that go on to make you react to being in a plane?
• Why have previous attempts to overcome your fear failed?

To overcome your fear of flying you've got to have a plan.

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About Flying without fear.com

Mission

We want to help you to realise your dreams of taking a holiday, visiting friends, taking promotion or just being more relaxed when you fly. 

 

The information here is unequalled on the internet, it is presented in a way that will help you to overcome your fear of flying. We want you to feel confident that we will do everything we can to support and guide you on your journey. 

 

We want your experience here to be one that you enjoy and that you'll remember. Our fear of flying community has almost 2500 members around the world and many stay in touch and give support when flights are being taken. If you like what we do please spread the word.

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Turbulence for fearful flyers

 

If you worry about turbulence, you are not alone. Even experienced travellers can get upset and alarmed by it. Turbulence isn't dangerous if you're securely strapped in but it can feel very uncomfortable.  It's often compared with driving over a bumpy road, but the difference is that you are travelling ten times as fast in a plane ... so the bumps are going to feel a lot worse.

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Pilot Training

You don't have to be special to fly a plane ... just cautious and sensible

Pilot training is the most comprehensive training that any professional person will experience. As you might expect, the selection criteria are formidable, but this is not a reflection of the difficulty of the job, but rather the numbers of candidates for so few vacancies. Most would-be pilots hold a degree and many qualify in other professions before becoming pilots. For those who find a job it's the best career in the world.

International standards require pilots to be at least 21 before holding a Captains licence, although no-one ever takes command with this licence unless they also have thousands of hours flying experience as well.

After selection, a pilot will progress through more junior licences and become qualified to fly multi-engine planes, to fly at night, to fly on instruments and to be able to operate a plane in the controlled airspace that airliners fly in. The highest licence, the Airline Transport Pilots License will allow its holder to be a captain of a flight carrying fare paying passengers on aircraft of a certain size.

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Flying a jet airliner

Flying a jet airliner is easier than you think

There are a couple of expressions we use in English to suggest that something is not difficult; we say it's not rocket science or we say it's not brain surgery. I want to show you that flying a jet aircraft is easier than you think.  If you start with the thought that something is difficult, it must mean that it's ten times more difficult to do if something goes wrong.

If you believe it's complicated as well as difficult then you might describe it as potentially dangerous. If you're anxious about it all, then it will be seen as dangerous. We need to dispel those myths so that you see flying for what it is ... normal. Many people feed their fear of flying because they think that flying a jet plane is difficult and demanding. By understanding it you'll see that it doesn't hold as many fears as you believe. - See more...

Getting around the web site

 

A few months ago when we launched this new site we planned on some features that would make it helpful to visitors.

We had no idea that it would blossom in the way that it has.

We are getting thousands of visitors and some super comments about the site.
Each day we get closer to developing the site in a way that we think will help people who have a fear of flying to find a way of dealing with it. So far we’re the only web site that has video help  audio helpcasts information about fear, weather, strategies and loads more, but we notice from our statistics that visitors seem to stop searching the site as soon as they’ve found the things they need to know.
There is an amazing amount of help on the site and I wonder if visitors are reluctant to look everywhere just in case they think they might find something they didn’t want to see.
Let me assure you that every single bit of information on the site is user friendly there is nothing that will upset you or make things worse…so please explore and build your confidence.
The podcasts and free helpcasts are like the rest of the site … designed to help you find your way of dealing with your anxieties. So please tune in to them.
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Aviation technology

While I was waiting for my Pilot trainees to arrive today, I had time to read an article in Flight International.

 

 

New engine

It was about a technology that was being developed to detect the turbulence generated by other aircraft.

I never cease to be amazed at how technology makes aviation safer by the day by designing features on aircraft that could only have been dreams a few years ago.

Keith

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Fly without Fear Book

Fly without Fear Book – £14.99 

 

Get all of Captain Keith’s lifetime of experience and advice in one updated volume Learning to fly without fear can be a “light bulb moment” for some, a longer journey for others. Whatever the nature of your fear of flying, having the right information, logically structured, cogently presented and expertly written, at your fingertips, can make all the difference.
Now, Captain Keith Godfrey and Dr. Alison Smith have brought together their three volumes of information, experience, advice and help in one convenient, updated volume. It is there to reiterate and remind, to reassure and relax. - See more...