Top Tips for fearful flyers

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Have confidence that, despite all your feelings, flying is normal.

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Although you may not believe it, flying an airliner is NOT complicated or difficult.

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Flying and safety is most definitely NOT in the hands of chance or the Gods.

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To overcome your worries about flying you must have a plan.

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We have an action plan and strategy on this site.

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Assess your fear of flying on the Premium Course

This survey will show you the level of your fear compared with a sample of 4,000 other fearful flyers. You may find it useful to see what your level of fear is, compared to where you think you are. Many fearful flyers believe that their fear is higher than it is, and this makes them worry more than they really need to. But most importantly it provides a benchmark. The full survey is available on the Premium Fear of flying Course 
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Fear of Flying psychology

Once removed, make sure that you don’t re-install it by going back to old habits and thoughts. This is why getting the proper help, guidance  and support is so important. While you make your journey to overcome your fear,  your supporter should make sure that you avoid unhelpful thoughts and unreliable sources of information. We are here to support you. Remember these top tips about your fear of flying: 

• Your fear is a normal human reaction.
• Your fear can be controlled.
• Your fear can be overcome.

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Fear of flying Dictionary

Click on the letter to see the definitions and explanations of words that you want to know about. There's nothing in here that will upset or surprise you. You can't expect to know the language of flying, and in aviation we sometimes use words differently from the way we use them in everyday life. So don't be reluctant to use this dictionary to help you to understand the world of aviation.

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Abnormal;  Something that is outside the normal operation of the aircraft but which does not constitute an immediate danger. 

Aborted landing;  Correctly called a go around. The process where an aircraft climbs away after the decision has been taken not to land. 

Acceleration height; The height at which the pilot reduces power and the rate of climb to accelerate and starts to retract the flaps.

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Turbulence for fearful flyers

If you worry about turbulence, you are not alone. 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. - See more...

Human Factors and aviation safety

This evening an independent UK television channel broadcast an interesting and generally accurate programme about the crash of a British European Airways Trident aircraft at London Heathrow in the early1970′s.

At the time of the crash I was a co-pilot with the company flying out of Scotland. As an experienced pilot I was allowed to fly a two pilot aircraft even though it was less sophisticated than the modern Trident jet that crashed. To compensate for the lower experience levels of the jet co-pilots, the trident carried two co-pilots. Well known to those of us in the airline at the time was the fact that there had been a  very very heated argument in the crew room in London before crash. The argument involved the Captain of the ill fated flight.

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50 Years without Flying and then...

Keith,

I had not flown for nearly 50, yes 50 years, after a bad experience.

I bought your 4 Disc CD set some years ago and it completely cured my fear of flying.

I have flown nearly thirty times over the past 4 years including several times to Barra on a Twin Otter from Glasgow and several times to Rome, Tenerife etc.

I also have taken flying lessons , including a flight in a microlight.

No fear whatsoever thanks to your excellent CD.

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