CG,
Thanks for the link, my problem is though that i'm not unduly scared of heights but put me in a small 'twitchy' helicopter and I seem to feel a little uneasy.
What I forgot to say is that it's a helicopter that i'm training in, the Robinson R22 to be precise and I think it's the unstability of it that makes me feel anxious especially in thermals etc, plus being 2000ft up in a tiny glass bubble with a full view of the ground from every angle and the feeling that when if over control it, that it's going to topple over!
Someone likened the feeling to you being the head of a pin and whichever way your moved the yoke/cyclic it felt like you were going to fall off!
So it actually seems I have the opposite to the pilots mentioned in your link.......i'm absolutely fine when my feet are firmly on land or a fixed structure at any height but when i'm in something with nothing below or can see literally see through my feet as it were from a height it makes me feel uneasy such as on The London Eye, yet i've been to the very very top of Blackpool Tower without any problems!
So maybe it's just a feeling of safety, I couldn't walk across a very high swinging rope bridge as I might fall off, I couldn't travel in a hot air balloon as it might plummet, I don't feel safe on fairground rides, but on towers there is something under your feet to stop you falling hence feeling safer!
Strange!
Last edited by KNIEVEL77; 16th June 2011 at 17:53.