FEAR OF FLYING

   Flight anxiety is a well-known and very common phenomenon.  According to studies between 20-40% of the population suffer from one or another level of fear before or during the flight.

 

   Flight anxiety is the result of many things:

 

 ⭕️ General anxiety

 ⭕️ The need for control

 ⭕️ Panic attacks  and the fear of having them onboard 

 ⭕️ Avoidance  of  all the places from which it is not possible to escape immediately

 ⭕️ Excessive concentration on physical sensations 

 ⭕️ Perfectionism 

 ⭕️ Inability to self-soothe

 ⭕️ Imbalance of the autonomic nervous system

 ⭕️ Psychological trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD)

 ⭕️ And of course also poor knowledge  of the aviation, which opens a wide door for fantasies about the dangers that do not exist in reality.

 

   Using a flight simulator is a significant step in the coping/treatment process. The moving simulator makes it possible to learn safety principles and flight physics, and at the same time gradually adapt to the movement sensations of an airplane in the air— such as the feeling of turbulence, the moment of touching the runway at landing and other effects.

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   A person suffering from flight anxiety and who avoids flying due to  fears, can use our flight simulator as a practice tool that will allow to make the way to the end of the avoidance in a gradual, small and safe steps.

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   For those who have experienced flight anxiety, we offer a dedicated session: 15 minutes of conversation with our guide to alleviating concerns, and another 45 minutes of practice in the simulator. During the meeting, the high level of reliability of modern passenger planes will be demonstrated, and the way in which the pilot and the plane work together— help and criticize each other— and sometimes even smart systems in the plane are able to replace the person in certain situations.

 

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