“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:
- Steve Thorne of Flight Chops helped his friend MJ confront her extreme fear of flying, acting as a "pilot-therapist" during a flight.
- MJ exhibited profound anxiety, expressing fears about crashing and tornadoes, and using colorful language during the experience.
- Despite a minor pilot error by Thorne (wake turbulence) and MJ's exhaustion, the "therapy flight" was successful, as MJ later took a flying lesson.
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