Ultimate Guide to Know About Fear of flying(Aerophobia)

Aviophobia sometimes called Aerophobia, is the irrational fear from flying vehicle in which you feel intense fear from flying high in the airplane, helicopter or private flying vehicle. You may not able to do sky adventure if you are having an intense fear of flying or phobia of flying. Some phobias like Acrophobia( fear of height) and Claustrophobia(fear of closed spaces) may associate with the Aviophobia or Aerophobia.

When an individual is exposed to the flight mild anxiety

is quite common, but in a phobia of flying your level of anxiety would be greater. In the modern world where traveling is an inevitable part of an individual life living in a metropolitan city. People who are suffering from a phobia of flying will avoid business meeting and family gathering where they have to travel via a flight.

What are the symptoms of Aerophobia? 

The symptoms in Aerophobia will depend on person to person and level of severity. But some of the noticeable symptoms are:

• Sweating
• Nausea
• Increased heart rate
• Dizziness
• Thought of Falling to death
• Abnormal behavior
• Extreme Nervousness

Related Phobias

Acrophobia: Acrophobia is the phobia of height. People with acrophobia feel discomfort at a certain height. Sometime they can’t look down from the top of the building.

Claustrophobia: Claustrophobia is the irrational fear of closed space. People with the claustrophobia don’t be able to sit in a closed space.

Related Physical Conditions

• Some pain and dizziness may cause in the ear.
• Some cardiovascular disease may be associated with the fear of flying. You worry constantly about heart failure while sitting in an airplane.

Other Factors 

There are other factors that might be responsible for the phobia of flying:

Learned Experience: You will influence the environment where you are living. You may pick up extreme fear of flying from your friends and family members.

Genetic: We are by-products of our genes also we inherit almost everything from the parents. If our parents or grandparents are suffering from the aerophobia and aviophobia then chance to inherit the traits for the children would increase.

Traumatic Experiences: if you have confronted towards traumatic experience like airplane disaster, can trigger our emotions to feel fearful about the airplanes.