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Airborne training coming up.What do I do? How do I overcome a fear of heights?
>>17324205
By jumping often.
You may find that your fear of heights isn't so bad from an aircraft. That might sound weird, but that's how it was for me.
Now, admittedly, I've never jumped, but I was a Loadmaster on C-130's and spent alot of time standing in open troop doors and on the ramp after an Air Drop. Have a serious fear of heights when I'm up on something high. Tall buildings, balconies several stories up, walking across the Golden Gate Bridge... scare the fuck out of me...
But looking out the troop door on the 130 at 1,500' AGL didn't bother me a bit.
Where has your fear of heights manifested? I have problems with "Grounded Heights". You may be the same.
To quote a buddy of mine, "The second jump the scariest."
Just drown yourself in technique and training and go for it! You won't feel it til it's happening...
>>17324205
Get your shit together and suck it the fuck up during tower week. Most drops during jump school are at this point because if you don't jump off the tower you're sent packing.
Tower week is also where you learn to land without fucking your legs up. One person in your class will do this anyway because they are retarded. They will be dropped.
But jumping out of a plane is easy. Your altitude is so high the ground doesn't even look real.
