As someone who is always either flying or thinking about flying, it never occurred to me that there are tons of people out there who will avoid it at all costs. I knew about certain people with phobias, but I thought it was only a handful of them. Now I realize that there are many [...]
I had a student once who had to face a mortal fear of flying in order to get his Private Pilot License. In his own words, he described that experience in an earlier post (Click Here to read it). Now, his story is inspiring others to do the same thing: Here is a comment left [...]
Oddly, I flew infrequently on commercial airplanes as a kid with no real fear. Like most children, I was oblivious to the idea of death. Somewhere along the way, this changed. The cause of my growing fear of flying (as I reflect back), was not due to any one single event or attributable to [...]