Overcoming Your Fear of Flying | Common types of fear | Flying Without Fear

About the Fear of Flying - Common fears
A fear of flying is often connected with other fears and phobias. We collect fears from different sources and clump them together and end up exaggerating the size of each of them. This is a very common feature of a fear of flying because there are many individual events in flying that can cause anxiety.	Get our help podcasts
For example the arrival of holiday brochures and travel programmes, or the stress and anxiety at the thought of being at an airport. Then in flight, the possibility of turbulence, noise and aircraft movements. Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by exposure to danger, expectation of pain etc, a state of alarm, dread or fearful respect of something, anxiety for ones safety, or; to avoid the risk of something. Interestingly those who suffer from a fear of flying list symptoms rather than being able to define the fear itself.	4 hours of instant help
Common fears related to the fear of flying include; Claustrophobia, Agoraphobia, A fear of Heights, Panic Attacks.	Hear the sounds of flying
There is rarely anything irrational about the fear of flying. Unfortunately, people who suffer from a fear tend to be slightly embarrassed by it and consider it to be a personal weakness. Few people attempt to overcome their fears until it begins to affects their life adversely. Many live in the hope that it will just miraculously go away one day. Perhaps the most debilitating fear is the one of enclosed spaces.
Sometimes it’s comforting to hear that the pilots’ windows can be opened in flight.
The clunk of the door closing that is the start of a chain of reactions sometimes ending in actual or near panic attacks. The fear of open spaces has an obvious difficulty for anyone who has to fly. The feeling of detachment is exaggerated in an aircraft of course.
Many people with a fear of flying feel abnormally detached from reality when they are in an aircraft with apparently no means of support and floating thousands of feet above the ground. Some people are relatively at ease in a plane until it is flying over the sea, when suddenly their fear hits them. There are no hard and fast rules. The things that worry you are not always the same things that worry other people even though they may appear to be identical to anyone else. It’s the detail of your fear that is important to address…that’s why there’s so much information on this site.
Many of the people who suffer from a fear of flying are amazed to hear that a fear of heights is very common among pilots!