Safety Is Number One
Flying is the Safest Way to Travel on the Planet.
Oh yeah, you’re saying. What about takeoff??
We sure hear that question a lot! Many people hate takeoffs. And for good reason! How can something like a big huge airliner get up enough energy to make it off the ground?
Fortunately bright and innovative people starting with Orville and Wilbur figured it out. In fact, EVERY part of flying is carefully planned and monitored to guarantee your safety.
Achieving Safety Means Careful Planning
A lot of preparation and planning goes into every commercial flight. Careful measurements and calculations are made. The pilots perform their checks and crosschecks.
From the time we pushback at the gate, we know that the airplane will not only fly safely but even has the capability to experience complete loss of thrust on one engine and at that point either stop safely on the remaining runway, or continue to takeoff if there’s no longer room to stop. If that ever happened, of course, we would immediately turn around and land at our departure airport rather than continue on our trip.
Remember this: An airplane can safely fly on one engine. We just don’t want to fly very far with one engine.
Safety by the Numbers
This is a good time to “take a count” of the other equipment on an aircraft so that you are able to “count on” every commercial flight you take. Flying is so safe because of the duplication of effort that is built into the aircraft to ensure safety.
Flying isn’t like driving in your car. There are at least two engines, two pilots, and two systems of each kind so that if one fails, a backup exists. In fact, many systems have more than one backup.
Knowledge is a powerful tool in overcoming your fear of fying. If you want the “plane” truth about how safe airplanes are, check out Captain Ron’s downloadable Cleared 4 Takeoff seminar. You’ll also learn coping strategies to overcome your fear from a 40-year aviation veteran and fear of flying expert.
What You Can Do to Ensure Your Safety
Capt. Ron has advice for you as a passenger:
“As pilots, we’ll do everything we can to ensure both your safety and ours. As passengers, you can do your part to be safe.”
Here are Capt. Ron’s Top Three Tips to Safe Flying:
- Pay attention to the safety briefing that many people tune out at the beginning of every flight.
- Stay seated with your seat belt fastened when you’re not up using the restroom.
- Stay buckled in when the seatbelt sign is on. The pilot turned it on for a reason–to keep you safe. The seatbelt sign doesn’t mean you should be afraid; it just means it’s time for an extra margin of safety in the event of turbulence. Safety is a pilot’s NUMBER ONE concern!
You Can Overcome Fear of Flying
When you’re ready to get over your fear of flying, explore the ”stories” you tell yourself about flying. Replace those myths you have with the “plane” facts about flying and why it is so safe. Flying may seem mysterious to you, but airplanes take off, cruise above the clouds, and land safely because of years and years of industry experience, traditions, and layers upon layers of regulation and monitoring. Learn the ”Plane” Truth about Flying with Captain Ron’s downloadable Cleared 4 Takeoff seminar.
If you change the content and quality of your thoughts about flying, you will change the way you fly. Your former anxious thoughts of “Oh my gosh, that noise sounds so awful. I think we’re doomed!” to calm thoughts such as, “Okay, that sound must be like the barking dogs Capt. Ron talked about, and it’s the normal sound of the hydraulic pumps. No big deal.”
Once you understand some aspects about flying, it is likely to seem less scary. You can learn new information and explore stories of former fearful flyers with your copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul Presents the Fearless FlightKit. And you can then change your own beliefs you have about flying at the same time.
Our downloadable Seminar will help you overcome your fear of flying. In this interesting and informative three hour class, Capt. Ron clears up some of the myths you may have about flying and replace them with “plane” facts. Did you know that from 2000-2005, the odds of being killed in a U.S. plane crash were 1 in 22.8 million? Did you also know that these statistics represent a 60-percent improvement from the ten-year period of 1990-1999? It’s getting safer and safer to fly! Find out more in Captain Ron’s downloadable Cleared 4 Takeoff seminar
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