Capt Ron’s Blog
From Freaked Out due to Claustrophobia to Fearless: Part 3
Read part 1 and part 2 first. FROM FREAKED OUT TO Fearless®: Overcoming Claustrophobia Part 3 Anxiety as Part of Life For Kathryn, anxiety is part of her life. It resides at one end of a continuum we can call increased arousal and on the other...
From Freaked Out due to Claustrophobia to Fearless: Part 2
FROM FREAKED OUT TO Fearless®: Overcoming Claustrophobia Part 2 Kathryn makes a successful flight from Detroit to San Francisco and back, but first, a little history. A Fear Becomes a Phobia Kathryn had been flying since she was a little kid. On average,...
From Freaked Out due to Claustrophobia to Fearless: Part 1
FROM FREAKED OUT TO Fearless®: Overcoming Claustrophobia Part 1 The odds of dying as a passenger on any given flight with one of the world’s major airlines is 1 in 33.2 million. To say that these odds are heavily in your favor is an understatement. And...
Capt Ron’s Coping Strategies and Techniques
Just as flight crews meticulously prepare for every phase of a flight, you too can prepare for every phase of your upcoming flight: pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight. Flight crews use checklists to check and cross check every procedure and sequence throughout the...
DFW TSA GETS A CLUE TO CUSTOMER SERVICE
I recall taking an uncle to Chicago’s O’Hare airport in 1959 as he was leaving for basic training having joined the Navy. We parked the car in the O’Hare parking lot, walked into the terminal and all the way to the gate without seeing as much as a single police...
FLYING SCARES ME!
Received this message from a new subscriber: Flying scares me because I am always worried that something will go wrong. Turbulence makes me very nervous and I freeze up. I can't do anything during turbulence except look out the window and wait until it stops. Landing...
