Lovefly® Blog - Webinar 'Why Trust Commercial Pilots'

Webinar 1st August 2020

Thank you to all of you that joined us last weekend.  The webinar went really well and a version of it will appear in our podcast site shortly...  Podcast button looks like this on our site www.lovefly.co.uk at the top of the page.

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Some of the questions, Captain Steve answered are below:

Why should I trust you?

What do you have to go through to become a commercial pilot?

What checks are in place to keep you and us safe?

What happens if you have had a rough night and you come into work?

What would you do if you thought a colleague was not his/her self?  Would you challenge that behaviour if they just looked a bit tired?

What is a commercial pilots favourite destination?

Feedback from Webinar 1st August 

'I can't thank everyone at Lovefly enough - I have always had a life long debilitating fear of flying and they have helped me so much with their patience, time and educating to help me look at it very differently.  I don't think I will ever enjoy flying but, I can now fly with my family and go on holiday with the knowledge of how safe it is. I found their love of planes and flying so reassuring and their kindness and willingness to talk to you and address your fears, without making you feel silly, amazing.  Thank you so much and I will continue listening to their webinars as each time it helps reduce my anxiety and feel more reassured.' Clare, August 2020

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Next webinar, 'Weather, turbulence and all things related.' Capt Steve Bull.  15th August 1400 UK

Take care, 

Lovefly Team 

Lovefly Blog: This is your Captain Speaking

This is very dangerous to speak about - bear with us please, it will all come good in the end!

The picture is a female only Delta crew taking females out to generate interest in aviation and space travel.  

'This is your Captain speaking...'


The reason that we are blogging about this is that many people with a fear of flying have certain expectations from the voice that comes over the PA when flying.  In our experience, we have heard both men and woman say that the voice they want to hear come over the PA has to have most of the following characteristics: (not in any particular order)

• Posh or at least well spoken
• A little bit formal...some humour is okay but not too much!
• Be quite technical 'runway two seven...' (sounds authoritative)
• Not sound too young or too old
• If an accent, make it a slight accent, sexy is okay
• Male 
• This might be a little bit shocking to some of you?  For those of you with a fear of flying, you know what we mean though don't you?!  

To the nervous flyer, your imagination runs riot.  You need to feel safe and secure.  Certain voices conjure up better images.  Many people have told us what they like to hear from the pilot's voice.  Believe it or not, many women have told us that they prefer to hear a male voice say, 'Hi, this is your Captain speaking....'  

If you knew how many years, money, training, perseverance/tenacity it takes to get into the flight deck of any commercial aircraft....The checks pilots have to go through...being re-tested every few months on their ability to handle all the scary situations you can imagine...the medicals...the peer checking...the procedures...the back up systems for everything... If you knew all of that, you would not care how the voice sounds over the PA.

Take care,

Lovefly Team