08/29/2016
In the course of our 2-weekend clinic, we'll take you behind-the-scenes of commercial aviation to:
Tour SFO airport
Tour an aircraft maintenance hangar
Sit in the cockpit of a commercial jet
Visit SFO's airport control tower
This unparalleled access is unique to the Fear of Flying Clinic, and essential for demystifying a fear-based approach to flying. We discuss weather-related preemptive air-traffic control with the pilots and engineers themselves, learn how weather cautions may be unnecessarily affecting you as a fearful flyer—and parse apart what's reality versus actual threat.
We identify the take-off and landing noises that may be "triggers" for you, but pose zero risk—the mysterious squeaks and bumps so commonly misinterpreted by fearful fliers as evidence of danger. During the maintenance tour (the tour place on a stationary commercial airliner, parked in an SFO hangar) we'll demonstrate the function of various airplane parts and the sounds they generate. Dependably and powerfully, this one-of-kind exposure work helps our clients progress leaps and bounds past the imagined scenarios that, thus far, have lorded over their most anxious moments in the sky. Those mysterious "thumps" and "whistles" are no longer cause for alarm—in fact, they become reassuring checks in the flight's progress. When you understand the technical step-by-step of what a flight entails, it's all suddenly much less scary. Wild speculation is replaced by reassuring fact—and this is the core of our "relearning" work. Empowering you with information.