Traveling is so hard to me. Especially when flight is turbulent, I feel so nervous and about to drink.
I stayed sober today during my flight Tampa-Austin, but it was really hard.
after this flight I am feeling exhausted and super tired.
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Don’t bother drinking you’ll regret it in 6 hours!
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I flew to Columbus from LaGuardia a few months ago.. my biggest point of breaking down was actually packing my stuff and driving 13 hours
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Flying on planes and dealing with rude people makes you want to be drunk. Maybe if airlines didn’t treat people like cattle—it would be a more pleasant experience
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Jane
I'm a pilot. Turbulence is nothing to be afraid of. Many things cause turbulence. But I'm here to tell you that those airliners that you ride in are put through much more rigid tests than you will ever experience up in the air during a commercial flight.
Air traffic control and onboard equipment ensure that planes don't fly anywhere near anything that has the potential to cause damage.
Turbulence is just some sort of change in the air around your plane. Air isn’t nothingness; it’s a fluid, like water. Currents of air move up and down, ripple out, change direction, and change speed.
Some of the things that cause turbulence are easier to predict. Thunderstorms push air up and down, so your pilot will use weather reports and instruments on the plane to avoid the worst of the storm.
The movement of air as it’s warmed by the sun causes turbulence. Changes in weather are another cause of turbulence. Mountains and other geographic structures cause turbulence when air moves up or down, and that ripple effect can last a long time.
Airplanes themselves disturb the air and can cause turbulence for the flight behind them, which is one of the reasons air traffic controllers give airplanes a lot of space (and why you might have to wait to take off).
The air near the jet streams that wrap around our planet can be turbulent even though the skies look clear; this is called “clear air turbulence."
Stay sober and maybe take some reading materials with you.
Sobriety is a great way of life but it takes time to transform our lives from suppressing our brains with alcohol!
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Dave, that’s amazing what you said. Thank you very very much. I fly very often (4-6 times per month) and each time I feel turbulence I am scared to death. I feel absolutely hopeless and I can tell you each period of turbulence feels eternal to me and I can say these are the most terrible experiences in my life.
I used to drink always when I traveled. But I can’t drink anymore. My recovery is very important.
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I feel like our plane is not under control anymore. When I see how strong wings move up and down, I think they are about to fall down and this is terrible.
When I was in my early Flight Training we had to do what are called power on and power off stalls. To speak in English terms, you pull back on the throttles and the plane simply stops flying. When the plane stops flying it basically wants to start dropping out of the sky. You learn how to recover with as little loss of altitude as possible.
It's very similar to the steepest hill you've ever gone down on a roller coaster. 
After a while your body learns to ignore it.
I hope when you're not flying that you're going to meetings. I highly recommend that you find yourself a sponsor that will take you through the 12 steps as soon as possible.
This is the quickest way to have the obsession to drink lifted and have the promises start to come true in your life. I know this from years of experience and sponsoring people myself.
And stay out of relationships in early sobriety. As time goes by you're going to be looking through a different set of glasses.
I say this because you are a beautiful young woman and you would be noticed by the new guys in AA that aren't ready for a relationship either.
I'm 64 and I have made all those mistakes.
Glad I could help!
The wings are engineered to bend like that. Once again, the testing they go through is much more rigid than anything you'll encounter in a commercial flight. The wing bending actually has a lot to do with reducing the effect on the airplane from the turbulence
100%!
You helped a lot, thanks Dave. I have a sponsor and we have finished steps 4&5 last week. She tells me that each time I feel fear on a plane, I need to switch that to faith. I try but I still full of fear .
Especially when a pilot says that nobody stands up and seat with your belt. Each time I think something wrong
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Is that important how old is plane? Each time I come inside, I look around and if I notice old interior, old lights and signs, I think it’s a ref flag.
Oh I don’t cause have smart recovery
Hope you got some rest. You sure do travel a lot. Hope Austin is fun
Yes I like Texas. On Monday my flight back to Tampa 
Welcome to the neighborhood Jane. Lots of great meetings in Austin
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Turbulence causes planes to move in different directions, including up and down. Turbulence can actually cause the plane to drop a short distance really fast and then back up again. It is better to be seated and have your seatbelt on then to possibly hit your head on the ceiling.
We call turbulence, potholes in training. It's similar to hitting potholes in the road when you drive your car.
Thanks! I usually to go northland meetings here
I’m to the south but have been to 617 and Buda meetings.