Poll of the Day > Do you get nervious when you fly?

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Do you get nervous when you fly?

I'm nervous about flying itself, I tend to get nervous about things like missing a flight, missing a connection, cancelled flights, etc...

About flying, no. About sitting next to a huge, smelly fat man, yes.

I'm too nervous to fly.
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Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

A little, my dad is a pilot so most of the flying stuff doesn't stress me out, it is the fear that I am going to get air sick even though I have never gotten air sick on a plane bigger then a 4 seat Cessna.
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Philip027 posted...

Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

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I've never flown. Considering how much of a hassle it is I dunno if I'd want to.

A little, under pressure to do everything right, think ahead of the airplane, and be prepared for emergencies, but the fun of flying outweighs it.

As a passenger, not nervous at all.
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I used to, but now I know how to better control my ki...

Okay, jokes aside, I'm not sure. I only did it once, and I was scared as hell back then, but I don't think it would be a big deal if I were to do it now.

Philip027 posted...

Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

Pretty much. Another little spike of anxiety between landing and retrieving luggage if I checked anything, but the plane itself is perfectly fine.

Maybe for a moment around takeoff, but then it passes

Ive flown so many times that its fairly routine for me. I mostly just use it as a few hours to play my switch and listen to a few podcasts
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Short flights aren't bad but long flights over the ocean with lots of turbulence make me nervous

I dunno if nervous is the right word. On edge is more like it. I hate tight spaces, I hate crowds, and I get antsy when I sit long so for those reasons I hate it.
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Nah.
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Nope. And usually, everything works out. So it's all good...
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No
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Nervous? Not even a little bit.

Motion sick? All the freaking time. I've thrown up on so many flights, even when I take meds before hand.
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Philip027 posted...

Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

Also, basically this. On one of my flights (which was booked by the admin team for a client I worked for), I landed in a connecting city, looked at my next boarding pass and realized that somehow, boarding started in 10 minutes. And I still had to clear customs.

Thank Christ for Nexus/Global Entry or I would not have made that flight. They were calling my name as I was dashing towards the terminal.
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I've never been in a plane but given my fear of heights "I get nervous" is a given.
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Dynalo posted...

Philip027 posted...

Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

Also, basically this. On one of my flights (which was booked by the admin team for a client I worked for), I landed in a connecting city, looked at my next boarding pass and realized that somehow, boarding started in 10 minutes. And I still had to clear customs.

Thank Christ for Nexus/Global Entry or I would not have made that flight. They were calling my name as I was dashing towards the terminal.

Do you get to skip any of the annoying pat down or what
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Mead posted...

Maybe for a moment around takeoff, but then it passes

Ive flown so many times that its fairly routine for me. I mostly just use it as a few hours to play my switch and listen to a few podcasts

This. And sleep, sometimes...
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Dynalo posted...

Philip027 posted...

Airport is what's stressful. Once I'm on the plane it's pretty much a sigh of relief.

Also, basically this. On one of my flights (which was booked by the admin team for a client I worked for), I landed in a connecting city, looked at my next boarding pass and realized that somehow, boarding started in 10 minutes. And I still had to clear customs.

Thank Christ for Nexus/Global Entry or I would not have made that flight. They were calling my name as I was dashing towards the terminal.

I've had a bunch of flights boarding as I was getting off the previous flight. But it's usually ok. I remember I was running to catch my flight. And I noticed a woman running the same direction with a rolling bag. I looked over and said "Flight to (insert city here)?" She was like "Yeah." And we laughed. But we made our flight. Haha.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Do you get to skip any of the annoying pat down or what

For Nexus/TSA Precheck, no. But the lineup is usually much much shorter to get through security. Here in Regina it's particularly great, because they literally just send me to the front of the line with it since they don't have a dedicated Nexus line... Which has resulted in a few dirty looks.

Nexus/Global Entry allows me to go through a much shorter line in customs. Coming into the US from Angola it was a godsend as there would be hundreds of people in line and I'd just go to a machine, scan my fingers and be through in literally a minute or two.

Basically for someone that travels a lot, this saves a ridiculous amount of time at airports and just makes everything less stressful.
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No, but the last time I flew was in 1989...
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I usually fall asleep before the plane even takes off.

Then I accidentally sleep through the drinks being served and end up thirsty later.
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