Really worried please help

[Woahbodyforrrrm]

My husband is on a flight to Scotland as we speak. I am scared of flying and watch my loved ones on flight radar till they land safely. His flight has dropped 10,000 feet in the last 4 minutes.

He's 20 minutes from landing.

Please someone tell me this is normal. He's down from 35k to 22.5k feet!

I'm shitting myself!

Yes that’s normal.

I know nothing g about aviation but I'm sure if he's 20 mins away from landing that it's the plane beginning to descend to land.

Yes it is normal they are getting ready to land.

I have no idea if it's normal but watching the flight like that isn't, and to be honest it's not doing you any good is it?

Go and have a bath or make a hot drink and distract yourself until after he's landed.

It has to get lower so it can touch the ground chill

Yes it's normal!!

For your own sanity, is there another way you've found to help the anxiety?

Thank you for replying. I've got myself into a real flap but trying not to let the kids see.

It feels like he only got to cruising altitude a few minutes before!

I've got to go through all this again tomorrow when my mum flies to Sweden to meet my brothers baby for the first time.

I need to try and stop the desire to track them!

It has to come down quite quickly otherwise they'd never land

He will be fine, stop panicking. As others said just distract yourself for half hour.

This him OP?

It's fine. Zoom out, see all of those planes around the globe. It's like that constantly and pretty much all of them land!

Flights too and from Scotland really are just ascent and descent. By the time you are up, you start to come down!!

I used to love flying, bloody loved it. But since I had my first baby, I've become terrified of it.

It's so strange as I am a very rational person and am fortunate not to get anxiety about other things. I just don't get why I'm like it.

I have to read a self-help book in the run up to flying and also take some Valium to get my on the plane without giving off scared vibes to the kids.

My brothers first baby (my only niece) was born earlier this year in Sweden and I so desperately want to see her now we can but it's holding me back.

It's fine. I regularly fly from Bristol to Edinburgh and by the time we reach the cruising altitude, it's almost time to start the descent.
Perfectly normal for a short flight like this.

@NigelSlatersXmasTaters

This him OP?

It's fine. Zoom out, see all of those planes around the globe. It's like that constantly and pretty much all of them land!

That's him 😁

@NigelSlatersXmasTaters

It has to get lower so it can touch the ground chill

Very true that 😅 I just didn't realise they'd start to descend so quickly 🤦🏼‍♀️😂!

Thanks everyone for reassuring me! 💐 I really do appreciate it.

Haha, don't worry. He'll be fine, that plane is looking fabulous

I'll carry on keeping an eye for you. You go get yourself a stiff drink lass

Plane doing the loop around of the forth before landing at Edinburgh, totally normal so don't worry. X

He's going to Aberdeen @FannyFifer 😂

@Woahbodyforrrrm
Don't worry. It looks like a normal approach to me.

Ah Aberdeen plane not Edinburgh. They go lower & along the coast before landing. He'll nearly be there now.

They start to descend about 30 minutes before landing.

Average descent rate is approx. 2500ft per minute so he is well within that range. x

Love a good flight radar thread

The plane probably doesn't want to crash into all those other planes circling round Aberdeen there so they're all at different heights.