Advice to Help you Overcome Fear of Flying

The range of emotions when it comes to flying can run from mild anxiety all the way to full bore aviophobia and an ensuing panic attack.   If you have had to cancel a vacation or a business trip because the idea of flying made you feel physically ill, you have aviophobia. The symptoms can be as mild as being nervous about going on a flight to being unable to even go near an airport or watch an airplane on television.  It can be very challenging to overcome fear of flying, but with a little effort and time well spent you can learn to relax and enjoy flying on an airplane for your next vacation.

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Nothing else in the world may make you feel as physically ill as the thought of getting on an airplane does, whether it is the thought of being in a small seat in airplane with dozens of other people or being 38,000 feet up with nowhere to go. Rest assured you are not alone. Studies show that between 30% and 40% of all people who fly suffer from some form of aviophobia. While not all of them have a panic attack or are unable to fly, they at least feel nervous at the thought.

If you want to overcome your fear of flying, you must first find out what that fear is based on, meaning that while your fear expresses itself as a fear of flying, there is normally a root cause. The root cause could be claustrophobia, or it could be the fact that once you are in the plane you are unable to control your destiny while in flight. At some point in time, something must have triggered those feelings, such as reading about or seeing a news report about a tragic plane crash.

It is possible to overcome your fears without the use of medications or expensive psychotherapists but it will take time and effort on your part.  First you must be able to identify the trigger and then be prepared to take action to overcome it.  If your fear of flying is based on being in the aircraft with the door closed, you will need to spend some time sitting in an airplane while it is on the ground.

Many airlines will help you with this by letting you sit in an airplane that is not scheduled to fly.  You will be able to sit in the seats, walk through the plane and find the restrooms without having to worry about flying.  Doing things this way will give you the time to become comfortable with being inside an airplane while it is on the ground and not full of other people. Be prepared to spend plenty of time at the airport watching the planes come and go and listening to the sounds of them landing and taking off.  This will help to desensitize you to the airplane and its surroundings.

If safety is the root cause of your fears, you need to remind yourself that no matter how sensational the television is when it comes to reporting on plane crashes or how much the movies use plane crashes for effect, the odds are far greater that you will have an automobile accident.  Millions of people fly every day and the percentage of accidents is miniscule when compared to automobile accidents.  In fact flying is the safest form of public transport.

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Fear is something that most of us must deal with at some time in our lives, how we cope with it is an individual issue. Most of us we learn to overcome our fears one at a time by telling ourselves that what we will be just fine no matter what happens.  Once you can train your mind to think in this positive manner you open up a world of possibilities for yourself.