I had my first trip on a jet about 5 years ago when I went to stay with my uncle in Florida for a week. It was the most amazing experience I've ever had. It was just incredible seeing/feeling it take off and seeing everything below me get smaller and smaller until the earth itself seemed like some tiny world in a child's dream. When we got really high and the clouds in the sky were actually below us, looking like a beautiful, alien kind of sea, it was just breathtaking! And the sunset I saw on the way back, reflecting every color of the rainbow? Gosh...it took my breath away seeing God's amazing creation from such an awesome height. It made realize just how small I really am. It was such a spiritual and humbling experience. I long to experience it again.
Still, I could see how someone could be very afraid on a plane. I thought of people who have died in plane crashes and I can't imagine the pure horror they felt, feeling the plane going out of control and falling from such a dizzying height. I put the thought immediately out of my mind and just enjoyed the flight, though, knowing the odds of that happening were pretty slim. Heck, I'm sure the odds are greater that a person would be killed in a car crash than in a plane accident. Still, incredible experience!