PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Flying phobias in aircrew
View Single Post
Old 7th Sep 2011, 14:50
  #36 (permalink)  
Vortex what...ouch!
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Europe
Age: 56
Posts: 409
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
For 38 years I have flown upright and inverted in fixed wing, helicopters and gliders and never had an irrational moment. I have even thrown myself out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane, yelling a happy native american warcry, without the slightest hesitation. Ask me to climb a ladder a few feet, however, and I turn into a gibbering wreck! I hate walking on narrow cliff paths and as for treading on that glass floor at the top of the refurbished Blackpool Tower - No Way!

The way the human mind works is sometimes mystifying.

Anyone else relate to this or am I in a minority of one?
I have exactly the same problem. So bad that there is a model of Sydney under glass in the library entrance that is not that deep a hole but I cannot bring myself to walk onto it. Completely irrational but there you have it.
Vortex what...ouch! is offline