I Always Prefer the Window Seat

For years and years I used any excuse not to take a flight.
I hated the thought of, being trapped inside with someone else in control, the actual heights, the speed, possibly a crash obviously fatal, how do they keep this heavy thing in the air etc etc.

Now after 30 plus holiday flights abroad which is over 60 individual flights, I still do feel uneasy flying as I really hate when it's bumpy turbulence. Although I will admit now when looking out the window I find the take off with that surge of extreme power and speed thrilling. Then the landing as I watch the wings expand and the air brakes lift up to slow us down, such a brilliant experience. Not forgetting the magnificent views in flight LOL.
It's always the window seat for me to see these sights, in the isle seat I might feel the old fears kicking in when I don't see what is happening.
Oh I also dislike heights and cannot go more than four stories high without feeling faint.
It must be a case of what we don't understand being actually the fear !

ArishMell · 70-79, M

I can relate to that although I have only once flown abroad, and perhaps a dozen times within the UK. I don't find the height a problem despite having a very weak head for heights, but my fear of flying was not of being in an aeroplane - I enjoyed that.

Instead it was of air-ports because all I'd known of them was from short scenes in films and news reports showing the interiors of the buildings. Vast labrynths full of people dashing to and fro; all obviously knowing exactly where to go and when with a great air of (self?)-importance, but which to me were very confusing places in which it's all too easy to get lost, miss the flight etc.