What is fear of flying?

Question

What is a fear of flying called, is it the same as acrophobia which is a fear of heights? Just curious about this.

Answer 1

People fear from heights sometimes. I have seen passanger who are very fearful during Landings.

Fear of flying comes from Sept. the 11th. A fear that every jet carries Mohammad Atta. This theory is very popular these days. In my experience in US, I have seen people DRIVE to FL from IL.

Answer 2

"It is also sometimes referred to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia or pteromerhanophobia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_fly...

Acrophobia, fear of heights, is different and the two are not necessarily connected.

Answer 3

Some years ago, I sat on a plane next to a Norwegian Braathens air hostess and she told me that airline companies have all a special course to treat fear-of-flying for their crew.

That's right, even pilots experience sudden fear-of-flying sometimes. They go through a course and recover nearly 100%.

The point is: the fear of flying, as many other phobias, come from another psychological conflict. Treating the latter cures the fear of flying in most cases.

Reading further about it, I discovered that people experience many different things. A seafarer told that his problem was jet engines. He could understand propellers but not jet engines. A woman said that she would love to fly if she could sit beside the pilot and tell him: "Look to the left and don't forget to lower the main gears now and ..."

For many, it is claustrophobia; the feeling of not being able to leave the plane for a walk.

Some may also experience the fear of heights but ... The funny thing is that I am a private pilot; I own my own little aircraft and I fly it as much as I can. I just love flying and yet ... I hate to be on the edge of a high building. Even worse; I can't stand to see someone else on the edge of a cliff.

But when I fly, 'down' is not under me but ahead of me because there is not a chance in the world that my plane can go down vertically. Even without wings, it will follow a balistic path and fall ... forward.

Answer 4

fear of flying is actually called Aviophobia

Answer 5

Aerophobia.

Answer 6

idk

Answer 7

I think it is aerophobia.  You may want to look in a dictionary.