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Fear of Flying Our aim is to help you to overcome your fear of flying. No tree hugging, no trickling water, no gim

If you are anxious or nervous about flying in anyway join us here for support, help and chat.

03/04/2026

Interesting point came up on a course recently regarding the sorts of checks we do prior to flight compared with ‘checking’ things before a car journey.
I asked a fearful flyer if s/he checked the tyre pressures and oil quantity before h/she came to the course. “No I’ve got warnings on the dashboard to tell me.”
“Did you check the warning lights were working before you set off?”
Because warning lights won’t be of any use if they’re not working, and you won’t know that unless you check that they’re on before you start the engine.

So check your warning lights before you start your engine, look at the condition of your tyres as you walk towards your car and it’ll remind you of how safety conscious we are in aviation.

23/01/2026

You’d think that after more than 25 years I’d be used to getting messages at odd times.
In the dark, early this morning my phone did that annoying thing of lighting up and daring me to see what bit of nonsense needed my attention.
I’ve got the will power of an earthworm so gave in and read the latest WhatsApp message.
“Arrived in Kerala, turbulence on second flight was horrendous but I said to myself ‘turbulence may be uncomfortable but that’s not the same as dangerous’ “
Concentrated on my breathing strategy.
Worth being woken for. Well done that brave person.

30/12/2025

I just had a WhatsApp chat with my young friend who is managing his fear and heading West across the Atlantic.
How fantastic that modern technology brings us face to face chat from air to ground.
I’m happy to chat to any fearful flyer to calm MY nerves!
Bon voyage.

30/12/2025

One way and another it hasn’t been an easy year. But what a way to see it out…

I’ve just had a message from a young fella who’s on his way, out across the Atlantic, with his family to start an adventure of a life time.
His last flight was awful for him. When he came to see me he had fear in bucket loads and lots of courage … and today that courage has won!

I tell ya! Kids, what are they capable of! They put us to shame sometimes.
There have been other young adults this year who have succeeded and one ready to face the challenge.

Another child, facing not only a fear of flying, but a struggle with more important things. An absolute inspiration… all of them.
But I know in a few days I’ll be moaning about the cricket team or football results… so this new years resolution is obvious!

28/11/2025

Just picking up the news about Airbus. Only the A 320 is involved but enormous disruption will occur with 6500 planes affected.
The systems affected are two of the main control systems but to what extent is not public. Software is something that only software engineers fully understand so there’s no point in making any comments from my perspective. I trust the engineers with my life, did do for 30 years or more.
There will be delays, there will be a fix, safety standards won’t be compromised. Usual advice from me… don’t be alarmed, be patient and take news reports with a bucket of salt.
I have no inside info from my Airbus pilot pals.

20/10/2025

I’m in a permanent stage of anger and agitation when the cabin crew ask that passengers stop using mobile devices while they give the Emergency briefing and some passengers flagrantly … no prizes for what annoys me and endangers other passengers.

21/09/2025

A message to Carly: can you please email me again?

17/09/2025

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I need 100 fearful flyers to start me on this journey to trial and test the new product in its alpha version.

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Keith

I wonder how many times I’ve posted messages about avoiding the press?Well today I should have taken my own advice.Had a...
01/08/2025

I wonder how many times I’ve posted messages about avoiding the press?
Well today I should have taken my own advice.
Had a call, from a BBC regional station, can I take some questions about fear of flying and turbulence. Sure I said, thinking that I could manage questions I’d probably heard a few times before.
I was unaware of the Delta Airlines incident and even now I’ve only heard the headline stuff.
So the host suggests a couple of things which I repudiate politely and stressed as I always do, that in turbulence if you’ve got your seatbelt you’re safe.
I guess that if earlier in the program there had been a news bulletin without that seat belt qualification that I must have been at odds with the mild hysteria he wanted to engender. He made a comment and that was that, the producer thanked me and bang all over in 3 minutes. I’d waited in an hour and a half.
Lesson to self don’t fall for it!!!
Advice to fearful flyers… information must be in context… did the passengers in the Delta aircraft have their seatbelts on?
What were the local weather forecasts and reports?
There’s no fool like an old fool!

Here’s one of the planes I flew.

31/07/2025

LBC radio host making desperate attempts to force some drama into the ATC radar problems this afternoon.
In short he was asking uninformed people about what was going on. He knew full well what the situation was, because he quoted the latest report issued by Swanwick Air Traffic Control Centre.

Tomorrow he’ll be interviewing motorists who have stopped at red traffic lights.

Ignore press reports about aviation.

28/07/2025

Just seen yet another video of an idiot evacuating an aeroplane WITH their hand baggage, in this instance carrying a child.
Will it need cigarette packet images to convey the stupidity of these actions?

13/06/2025

Many of the followers on this site will be familiar with my views of press speculation after an aircraft accident.

The banality to which reporting descends is illustrated by a well known travel expert reporting that the aircraft which crashed “would not be operating the return service”

This may well have been a slip of the tongue and we all get things wrong on occasions.
My point is, and always has been that a fearful flyer cannot discriminate between fact and something that purports to be fact because it’s spoken by ‘an expert’.

Many things in flying are conditional. One thing depends upon another and in a news report designed to engage rather than entertain accuracy is the first casualty.

I understand your inevitable curiosity, but you must believe only the indisputable. For the rest, ask me. I’m retired I love planes and, despite being a curmudgeonly old git I quite enjoy helping.

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