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Old 12-27-2016, 03:44 PM
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impalpable,

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

A simple start to letting go of anxiety about plane landings is understanding the impact forces we endure every day. Walking down stair often causes more vertical G force than even a rough landing will cause. The difference is when walking down stairs, we know to expect the impact sensation. When landing, there is heightened anxiety that magnifies any sensation.

Just because you feel and hear the landing touchdown does not mean the impact force was strong.

You just have to choose to believe that these bumps are not strong enough to cause damage, because they are not strong enough to cause damage.

The plane would suffer structural damage before the passengers could ever be subjected to enough force to cause damage. When people are injured by turbulence in a plane, it is because they are tossed about the plane and injury their necks hitting the ceiling.

I could get technical but it usually does not help.
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