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An Iberia 747-200. Fear of flying is the fear of being on a flying vehicle, such as an airplane or helicopter, while it is in flight.It is also referred to as flying anxiety, flying phobia, flight phobia, aviophobia, aerophobia, or pteromerhanophobia (although aerophobia also means a fear of drafts or of fresh air).
If your heart takes a nosedive while flying—especially recently—you’re not alone.
A clinically diagnosed extreme fear of flying, known as aerophobia or aviophobia, is rare: Some estimates put it as low as 2.5% of the population. But as much as 40% of people say they have ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Aerophobia -- the fear of flying. 8. Claustrophobia -- the fear of confined spaces. 9. Agoraphobia -- the fear of being unable to escape an open place. 10. Brontophobia -- the fear of thunder and ...
This is a list of animated films aimed primarily at children.The films are designed to hold children's attention and often have an educational dimension, particularly around cultural values, This list has all the animated films that are always dubbed in North-West Europe, Poland, Portugal, Balkan, Baltic and Nordic countries, where generally only kids movies and kids TV shows (including all ...
In 1986, two British Airways pilots decided to tackle “aerophobia”. Their initial work has expanded into Flying With Confidence, which now offers online courses.
The episode was selected for release in a 1999 video collection of selected episodes titled: The Simpsons Go To Hollywood. [13] Other episodes included in the collection set were "Flaming Moe's", "Krusty Gets Kancelled", and "Homer to the Max". [13] "Fear of Flying" was again included in the 2003 DVD release of the same set. [14]