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Posted 11/19/2014 1:55 PM (GMT 0)
I have avoided planes all my life due to a flying phobia. But in a couple weeks, me and the hubby are driving my daughters Jeep to her from MI to TX and flying back. I have my trusty prescription of Klonopin ready :)

Question: prescription protocol? Allowed in carry on or only checked baggage? Pills only btw.
Posted 11/19/2014 1:56 PM (GMT 0)
Yes you can take pills in carry-on bags.

Sue
Posted 11/19/2014 2:27 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you :)
Posted 11/19/2014 2:47 PM (GMT 0)
I never check meds because you never know if your luggage will get lost.
Posted 11/19/2014 3:09 PM (GMT 0)
Yep, always carry my med set with me in a shoulder carry on bag. Never know if I'll be stuck or luggage lost...good to be prepared! Also make sure and take some snacks with you. Good luck with your trip!
Posted 11/19/2014 3:10 PM (GMT 0)

Red_34 said...
I have avoided planes all my life due to a flying phobia.

I used to teach flying to all kinds off people, I think if you got some time behind the 'yoke' you would feel better about it. Bouncing up and down a few feet at hundreds of miles and hour is normal, you just don't want your seatbelt off because you could bump into the top of the cabin when in moderate to severe turbulence.
Posted 11/19/2014 8:55 PM (GMT 0)
Meds in the carry on...gotcha :)

As for the seatbelt, ummm it may never come off lol
Posted 11/19/2014 9:21 PM (GMT 0)
Well my grandson who is 12 months old just took his first flight today,2000 miles so far.
In Phoenix az headed to Reno, then Tahoe, was a little cranky at times, I guess tuff for the little ones to clear their ears.

My best buddy.
Old Mike

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 11/19/2014 2:24:52 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/19/2014 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
I Hate Hate Hate to fly. Hope all goes well.
Posted 11/19/2014 11:05 PM (GMT 0)
I hate to fly too. It ill be fine, it always is, i just don't like being cooped up with stale air. :) I would put it in the carry on too.
Posted 11/19/2014 11:07 PM (GMT 0)
I have enough Klonopin for me and the hubby. I have the phobia and he is claustrophobic. Great combination lol he only took one plane trip and if it wasn't for his brother sharing a movie on his phone he would've flipped. Luckily this flight plan is not straight thru. We will have 2 layovers. But this was the cheapest way to get my daughters Jeep to her. I don't think I will have much issue with the aid of anti-anxiety meds. I just wasn't sure how to travel with medications. So thank you all for your advice :)
Posted 11/20/2014 11:37 AM (GMT 0)

Old Mike said...
Well my grandson who is 12 months old just took his first flight today,2000 miles so far.
In Phoenix az headed to Reno, then Tahoe, was a little cranky at times, I guess tuff for the little ones to clear their ears.My best buddy.
Old Mike


Were you in Phx, AZ, OM? That's where I live! Kinda funny to think about. Small world.
Posted 11/20/2014 12:03 PM (GMT 0)
No Tunnel. It was my family, going out to visit my other son in Tahoe.
He owns a restaurant in Gardnerville NV.

My job is to take care of the grand dog, and the back yard chickens.

The thought of me taking a 5 hour flight then an 1 and a 1/2 hour flight total travel time about 12 hours

scares the hell out of me. Trapped in a plane if D hit would not be a pretty sight.
OM

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 11/20/2014 5:14:51 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/20/2014 12:06 PM (GMT 0)

Old Mike said...
No Tunnel. It was my family, going out to visit my other son in Tahoe.
He owns a restaurant in Gardnerville NV.
OM


Ah, okay. Sounds fun anyway!
Posted 11/20/2014 12:59 PM (GMT 0)
grand dog and chickens sound much more fun to me :-)


much funner than a greyhound bus with wings !
Posted 11/21/2014 2:12 AM (GMT 0)
The biggest issues with flying are how slow it is to get someplace and the attitude of some of the staff. Take your meds onboard with you and enjoy the flight.
Posted 11/21/2014 5:04 AM (GMT 0)
I'll be going on a trip with my wife's family later on this winter and have to fly. This will be the first time I've flown except for as a baby (that I don't remember).

I don't have any great words of advice because I don't want to fly either, haha... but you're not alone.

As a random note, my dad used to fly smaller planes... worked at an airport, etc... One time dad went for a ride with a guy, and the guy crashed the plane. Dad lived through it and went back to working at the airport right after the flight (must not have been too horrendous). Dad was helping another guy and the guy asked if he'd seen the plane crash. Dad said... yes, yes I did. hahaha

My game plan is to drug up and man up. Hoping some distractions will help me along.
Posted 11/21/2014 5:31 AM (GMT 0)

Thoreau said...


As a random note, my dad used to fly smaller planes... worked at an airport, etc... One time dad went for a ride with a guy, and the guy crashed the plane.

My dad flew the line at UAL, and I knew the pilot who landed UAL 232 in Sioux City when the tail engine distentegrated and took out all redundant hydraulic control lines.

Denny landed the plane without the failed flight controls using differential power on the remaining wing engines. I hang glided with a friend that was the top Airshow pilot around the world. I taught people how to fly all kinds of planes and I saw all kinds of mistakes and crashes.

Those were the best days, I had no UC I flew freight at night and taught students in the day, thousands of hours seeing the US countryside and learning about people, weather, materials.

Each airport usually has a graveyard nearby consisting of smashed up or burned a/c remains, I could tell stories for days on end, the more I tell them the more I remember.
Posted 11/21/2014 6:14 AM (GMT 0)
A guy, I'll try not to hi-jack this thread from Red... but you sound like my dad reminiscing about those days. Stories of air-show pilots, going to Osh-Kosh for the shows, just being around the smaller airports he worked regularly too. It was all just a complete lifestyle that he loved.
Posted 11/21/2014 1:44 PM (GMT 0)
Flying is always a terrifying experience for me, and I've flown in a plane over three dozen times. It isn't that bad once the plane takes off and the fear only goes away when the plane lands at its destination.
Posted 11/21/2014 4:10 PM (GMT 0)
Just remember that an airplane is at home in the air. It's on the ground that it is ungainly. Once in the air an airplane is in its element. The bumps are no different than a boat moving around on waves on the water surface-- even when they feel rough they are nothing at all to the airplane from an engineering standpoint. Like anything, it is all fear of the unknown that is scaring you and it will go away fast with repetition. But just remember, that plane is at home in the air. As for the "strange" (to a first timer) noises, know they are all normal too, just unfamiliar to you. The really hard part of flying airlines today, esp economy class, is being penned up like cattle. I travel a lot but the claustrophobia of being penned up in line after line and the delays from 20 lbs crammed in 5 lb bags gets old. At least you can listen to your music or watch your tablet throughout a flight now.
Posted 11/21/2014 7:31 PM (GMT 0)

Thoreau said...
A guy, I'll try not to hi-jack this thread from Red... but you sound like my dad reminiscing about those days. Stories of air-show pilots, going to Osh-Kosh for the shows, just being around the smaller airports he worked regularly too. It was all just a complete lifestyle that he loved.

That's right. I recently looked into property on two runway communities in my Colorado town. Big lots and of course a garage in the front and a hangar out back. Too bad its 400k for 1-2 acres with a view of the rockies and that does not include the build of your custom home on the empty lot.

For people uncomfortable with flying I encourage you to go to your local FBO and rent a CFI for an hour along with a small plane. Head out to the practice area and use the controls to dive, climb and turn with coordinated rudder inputs and 'feel' the plan as well as some afternoon turbulence. It only gets complicated landing in a cross-wind because you have to cross the controls to counteract the crosswind, gusty is more complicated still and naturally that is the learning plateau everyone gets stuck at for a while. But just zipping around in the practice area away from the airport would go a long way to feeling better about flying when your not able to look out the cockpit windshield.
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