I used to fly People's Express, Delta, TWA, Eastern, all the great airlines of the past... and just loved it... I started flying with my folks when I was very little, just a todler but I remember getting older becoming more afraid and really minding the turbulence etc...I have very very bad balance, dreaded gym class in high school and was terrible at every sport activity possible..... could my inner ear be "off"?? causing me to mind the bumps and movement more than a normal person with avg to good balance?I was 9 yrs old when I flew by myself for the first time ever, even having to make a connection at KATL when it was under construction yet on top of it!! I remember walking and walking and then more walking until I finally got to my gate. Just loved it, very fun.Then I also remember my first real scary flight. I took off from?? I think kclt, flying by myself in the daytime and as soon as we lifted off we were in complete white out until just seconds until we landed at KSRQ or maybe the other way around,,, oh I think it was from Ohio to KCLT, yeah that was it... I remember being VERY GLAD to get off of that plane and I remember my folks said that I was ghost white! However, I do remember flying a lot though after that...I wish I could get on a full motion passenger simulator, but they probably don't even make something like that do they? I wish they would make just the fuselage and then use video and sounds and hydraulics motion to simulate a smooth to really bumpy flight.any hope for me?

Well what exactly are you fearful of? I mean, what thoughts are actually causing your anxiety in the A/C?Being susceptible to imbalance and having a sort of "sensitive inner ear" shouldn't be contributing to your anxiety, unless you're becoming very disoriented.

Want to hear something odd? I'm scared of heights if I'm not in an aircraft. Go ahead, laugh! ;)

Want to hear something odd? I'm scared of heights if I'm not in an aircraft. Go ahead, laugh! ;)

Me too. The J-3 in summer has mostly cured me, but I used to get a little creeped out in the C152 during initial training.

mmm.. it is going through turbelance and feeling the different G's when we are bouncing around, makes my head feel woozy sometimes, .. I don't get sick, .. well for example I flew out to KDEN years ago and it was a very bumpy one coming in, that night when I was lying in bed in the motel, I could still "feel" myself "moving" - I had to get up and walk it off a bit.. it was a day or so before that feeling went away.also, maybe I don't trust the pilots, being in Fltsim stuff and studying aviation, I'm constantly wondering if the pilots have they xyz set correctly, etc, etc.. I think I just need to fly a lot then I would get used to it.

They say most pilot's have a fear of heights. I know at one of my weekly breakfasts with about 20 there all admitted so.The only antidote for the fear is to learn to fly-I felt much the same 40 years ago and it solved it for me. :)

Want to hear something odd? I'm scared of heights if I'm not in an aircraft.

And I thought I was the only weirdie like that!One of the reasons I quit flying paragliders after some time.Didn't like watching my boots hanging a few hundred metres over the ground.

The sense that the world is twirling can be very real. Pilots talk of vertigo like symptoms from unusual attitude or upset training.If no medical cause can be found then Geofas suggestion can be applied.I remember in C150 solo cross country looking down at the pilot side landing gear and back quickly to the scan and the whole world seemd askew for more than a few seconds.Seems sudden head movements upset the sense of balance in the inner ear. Not something that you can just "cowboy up" about but it can be managed...

I was wondering, do you get seasick as well, then I would think you had some inner ear dysfunction? Otherwise fear of flying is just like any other phobia, I would imagine.An Aside: Last winter I took a boat to Antarctica across the Drake Passage, which is some of the roughest ocean on the planet. I typically never get car/plane/sea/video game sick, but on the trip back we hit a very rough patch of water and the ship was listing 30 degrees in either direction for over a day. That almost got me there, other people who are more prone to seasickness were pretty much done for, just staying their cabins coming out for the odd meal.

I know some airports offer programs to those who have fear of flying. I saw one program where they have classroom time, tours about the airport and cap off with a special flight just for the class to go through each part of the flight. I would check your local large airport to see if they offer a service such as that.

British Airways used to hold fear of flying courses using a 757, not sure if they still run them. And I am absolutely **** scared of heights, the weird thing is I am fine in an aircraft or rollacoaster and I have even bungee jumped, but if I am high up in a skyscraper or tall appartment block it freaks me out.Last year I was staying in a hotel with my girlfriend out in Bahrain, we were only eight floors up and we had to smoke out on the balcony, everytime I tried to look down onto the street I would feel sick!

Interesting. I started to love flying when it successfully reduced most of my GAD... so it's a lot better than xanax

I get seasick in small airplanes, but not on boats. Go figure...

Last year I was staying in a hotel with my girlfriend out in Bahrain, we were only eight floors up and we had to smoke out on the balcony, everytime I tried to look down onto the street I would feel sick!

LMAO. That sounds exactly like me. Me and a buddy were having a smoke on the top floor (I'm not a "regular" smoker though) of the condos at Myrtle Beach a few years back and I would not let him out of my peripheral vision near the railing. Some sort of weird irrational fear of being pushed near the edge.

LMAO. That sounds exactly like me. Me and a buddy were having a smoke on the top floor (I'm not a "regular" smoker though) of the condos at Myrtle Beach a few years back and I would not let him out of my peripheral vision near the railing. Some sort of weird irrational fear of being pushed near the edge.

I went here last summer. Great trip. Try dangling your feet on the ledge here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preikestolen