I'm beginning to get suspicious that it may just be possible that pilots actually may have a higher fear response to heights than the general population. For some inexplicable reason, sitting in something appears to take the fear response away, but then I know I still feel it, for example, on a high balcony. I had a real problem with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%C...l_The_Stamford this hotel balcony- being outside up to 73 floors high is freaky. So you can still be 'in' something, yet feel vertigo. So what does the panel think?