A Warwickshire war hero left traumatised by a terrifying emergency landing is flying high after hypnosis cured his crippling fear of planes.
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00:00Hi I'm Paul from Runeaton and I'm here to tell you my story about my fear of flying.
00:05I joined the army back in 2002. My first flight was to Canada. We went through some thunderstorms
00:12and that and it was okay. I didn't really enjoy it but it was okay. My real fear of flying started
00:16when we went to India and I was sitting on the aisle seat next to the wing. The loader came up
00:23to the side of us and looked out the window and I said everything okay and he said yeah it's okay.
00:28So anyway they went back to the captain and came over the tannoy saying that we need to do an
00:34emergency landing. I was like oh my god. In the process of that we sort of started off here and
00:39we sort of dived like that spiraled all the way down and all I could see out of the window was
00:45water and I was thinking this is not going to end well. Anyway as we got sort of it seemed about 20
00:51feet off the ground but it was obviously higher than that we sort of levelled off and landed
00:54straight away so we had to do the emergency landing in Bulgaria. It took about probably nine
01:00ten hours to fix the fuel leak and once it was fixed we got back on the plane. I jokingly said
01:06are we going to make it home safely and they said yeah no problems. 20 or 30 seconds into the flight
01:13and basically it just went bang and the whole plane shuddered and then it went bang bang and
01:19the whole plane shuddered again and I looked around at everyone and it was like
01:23the life dropped over them. I held on to the front of the seat that was it I was praying to god I was
01:29thinking oh my god are we going to make it back home but the captain came on over the tannoy and
01:34says ladies and gentlemen we've just had an engine blowback it normally we normally get one a year
01:39but we've just had three nothing to worry about. I was like please god please god get me home get me
01:44home. Anyway ever since that experience I've detested flying. My partner Anna had some friends
01:56who went to see David and obviously for different reasons but they were all successful so Anna
02:03reached out to David he got in contact with me and basically says yep I can help you not a problem
02:11we'll book you in for one session. Obviously I was sceptical about it and you hear different
02:16things but this was sort of a last resort for me. I went over and met him he was really relaxed
02:23and sat down he talked through different coping mechanisms to get on the plane and whatnot
02:29and then he went into the hypnosis side of it. I was really really relaxed after it it was a
02:34really good feeling but afterwards he sort of walked me out to the car and that he says how
02:40how do you feel? I said I feel amazing I really do so I can't recommend David enough it was sort
02:47of a last resort for me but yeah us men don't really talk about things and fears and stuff like that
02:54and and he sort of gets that out of you so 100% recommend it. Basically cured me from my fear of
03:00flying. I got on a flight on the 28th of October to Iceland my partner said it was like a different
03:07person I was actually like a normal a normal passenger. I looked outside of the the plane
03:13which I'd never done before and I went to the toilet twice as well and that seems like the
03:19normal thing but for me that was that just never happened and we're looking to go on other flights
03:25in the future as well.