Your honesty, as ever, is appreciated. 
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- Edit 1Before modification by Ghavrel at 23/12/2009 05:00:01 AM
1. Do you have misgivings about getting into steel cans with wings and hurtling miles above the earth?
Yes. Especially after the time I watched lightning knock out an engine, the time I landed HARD in Shanghai into a monsoon after an approach that had the staunchest passengers gripping their chairs, feeling a Lufthansa 747 lose about 500-1000 feet in a dead air pocket over Newfoundland and taking off into a blizzard from Kazakhstan.
1a. WHY NOT?
n/a
2. If you do, how do you distract yourself during the particularly horrible time called "takeoff?"
Xanax, alcohol or fucking FATALISM. We all die, goddamn it. Grab your balls and be a man.
2a. Is takeoff not your least favorite time?
Landing is statistically much more dangerous.
2b. What is?
Landing.
3. Provide hugs and reassurance that this voyage, like every single one I've taken before, will not end in horrible disaster.
Probability says that you will reach your destination. Thousands of flights are performed safely every day.
4. Seriously how do you not want to cry when you go into a plane IT IS TERRIFYING
Again, Xanax, alcohol or being a man.