“My friend MJ is deathly afraid of flying,” Steve Thorne explains in the opening of one of his more popular Flight Chops videos. He’s not embellishing her fear at all, as MJ becomes the ultimate pessimistic passenger the moment she simply sits in a cockpit to get a feel for the airplane. “That’s scary because it’s so close to my face,” she says of the instrument panel, “If we crash it’s like, forget my nose, forget my teeth.”
Flight Chops: Helping a Friend Overcome a Fear of Flying
Key Takeaways:
- The article features a Flight Chops video where pilot Steve Thorne helps his friend MJ confront her severe fear of flying, acting as a "pilot-therapist."
- Despite MJ's intense anxiety and colorful language during the flight, which included a minor piloting error by Thorne, the experience was successful.
- The "therapy" flight proved beneficial enough that MJ later took a flying lesson.
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