Fear of heights?
I don’t like flying high in a helicopter. Don’t feel comfortable with it. Anything above 3000 feet gives me the willies. I’ve got no such problem with fixed-wing… just helicopters.. .I thought it was just me, until I read the following in a book about Stanley Hiller. It describes an altitude record set by Terry Clark, who flew a Hiller 12E to 27,500 feet in 1983. It says:. .‘There is an odd phenomenon in helicopter flight whereby the floor beneath one’s feet appears to shrink as one climbs higher. Five miles up, Clark’s perch offered little more psychological support than a postage stamp. He later characterized this unusual flight as “harder than any mission I flew in Vietnam”.. .Is this a recognised phenomenon? How many people feel the same way?