Why Flying Makes Us Panic | SciShow Compilation

It's because we aren't flying, we're being flown. Flying is TREMENDOUS FUN, but sitting in a chair for 8 hrs doing virtually nothing really doesn't provide much stimulation.

My dad was a fisherman. He's faced death on the sea many times. I remember being on a boat with him during a hurricane, and he was cool as a cucumber. While I was puking up my guts, and waves were going over the boat as it was thrown in the air repeatedly. He refuses to get on a plane because he has no control over the plane. I just go to sleep on planes lol Everyone is different.

This has always confused me about people, how bored they all seem on an airplane. I've spent every flight I've ever been on staring out the window in awe

I married a pilot and his father was a flight instructor. Every time we went up in our Cessna 182, I had to fly left seat. I never had a desire to get a license but my father-in-law insisted that I fly the plane in order to understand aerodynamics. Planes do not ordinarily fall out of the sky. You can lose all your engines and still glide to the ground. I've also flown in soar planes or gliders and these don't have engines at all. When you realize planes are designed to travel on different air pressures or thermals, they become a lot less scary. Knowledge is power.

I've been in a plane that dropped a few hundred meters due to turbulence while flying through a storm on our way the land.. We also skipped sideways on the runway when we landed and had to fly back up to straighten out for a second (successful) attempt. I almost kissed the ground.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm whooping in joy whenever there's heavy turbulence. No sarcasm! I truly love it. It's like riding the most serious rollercoaster in the world. Total adrenaline dump, super fun

Man i love flying, the whole process. The boarding, the crammed space, the movies, the bad food, the inconveniences. I think it's great fun

I like how something like flying can be amazing to some people, terrifying to others, and just boring to others still. I personally love flying. Gazing out the window is so pretty, and there are just some sights that you can only see from a plane, like an entire city illuminated with lights at night, or the entire sky painted gold in a sunset, or just a beautiful clear blue sky over fields of green.

I find flying, even in a commercial airliner, and it's always exciting. I love flying - I tried to take lessons to get a pilot's license when I was a teenager. I don't understand how someone can be frightened of such a captivating experience. The problems are that the seats are uncomfortable, the food is horrible, and people still act like people when they're crowded into a small space.

I had a flight attendant tell me if your drink hits the ceiling it's still within the realm of non-concerning turbulence. I love flying though

Flying can be completely masochistic or somewhat enjoyable depending which airline I use. Jet Blue = “This is kinda nice” Spirit = “I wish I could open the door & jump out”

Aside from phobias, I have never understood the aversion to flying. I love flying! I don’t even mind the time spent at the airport.

I flew on the Concorde once, in the mid 1980s. It was a press junket, when British Airways was trying to create acceptance of the plane by using them for chartered travel-club trips. The club members would take the QEII to England, have fun for a couple of weeks, then fly back to NYC on the Concorde. The New York passengers would deplane, then they’d put the press on the plane — where we got to visit the pilots in the cockpit and interview travel-club members about their experience. They’d fly us back to Atlanta (or whatever city the travel club was from) but had to fly at less than Mach 1. There was a digital display on the bulkhead; as I recall the fastest we went was Mach .8. I must say, that was one sleek cockpit. The pilot said the best thing about flying the Concorde was being home for dinner.

biggest reason @ 1:00 is actually because cell phones trying to reach towers will give the pilot a very annoying sound in their headset.

I actually like flying so much that even a small tourist trap style helicopter tour bothered me not at all. Im poor though so havent been able to fly in well over a decade. But it never bothered me.

I can understand why people are afraid of planes. But I just can't help but be excited every takeoff. I am fascinated by planes and flight, and I don't often feel airsick, even though the same can't be said for my tolerance of cars and boats.

Cell phone thing is a REALLY old rule that doesn't matter any more. Sure, early analog cell phones with old (60s-70s) era plane technology could have interference issues. But modern cellular technology (even 3G) with modern (90s and newer, which basically all airliners are) airliners have zero interference issues. It's just a leftover rule kept mostly because the airlines just don't want people chatting on their cell phones in flight. It wasn't even an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) rule, it was an FCC (Federal Communication Commission) rule. The FCC just never bothered updating it. One of my buddies from college is a flight test engineer at Boeing. He REGULARLY uses his cell phone to "call home" out of band of the plane's communication gear when troubleshooting things on an airliner sent back to Boeing for diagnosis/repair.

I've always found it fun, to be honest. I mean... the being cramped for hours on end is no fun, really, but sometimes I've had an absolute blast even when finding myself in the middle of violent turbulences. Kinda like a rollercoaster.

Good to see Olivia again; feel like it's been awhile. Hope you (and everyone else) are doing well!

I knew that tomato juice would be "on the table" when the loss of taste was discussed – I was always curious where this tomato-juice-thing on airplanes originated. And, yes, I do like to drink tomato juice (with salt and pepper) when flying, and have no craving for it on the ground. That said – there's so much tasty stuff "on the ground" that I simply forget about tomato juice.