Question for Pilots...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Left handed, first born male (which is what really counts, although I was last overall). Not afraid of heights, just afraid of long falls.

 

[HMR]

Your feet looked pretty good, though.

Please don't tell 350DRVR.

 

[CrewDawg]

Left handed.


I have also heard that there is a disproportionate number of pilots that are affraid of heights. I always wondered if there was any truth to this.

I guess I should add that I am affraid of heights also, and long falls

 

[zbwmy]

ATC Too

Not to 7500 your thread, but a disproportionate amont of controllers are left handed also. As far as heights, I keep my chair as low as possible!

 

[Eagle-ista]

First born, right handed, can't play piano well enough to get work in Nevada...

 

[Thedude]

Youngest of two, right hand dominant, only have a problem with ladders when someone is shaking it - when I was on a roofing crew

 

[partypilot1]

Bottom of five, right handed, love heights but scared of widths! I can't spell worth sh8t though.

 

[Hobbs]

Left Handed/First Born

Fear of heights is mild but defintely there. I've heard of that from other experienced/proficient pilots.

 

[flyguybri]

First born and a leftie...I guess I must be a pilot. Not scared of heights though.

 

[HMR]

Wait a minute!!! Now I remember...

The way I heard it was the majority of GOOD pilots are first-born, left-handed.

HMR
(first-born, left-handed and, did I mention, unusually good looking?)

 

[PaulThomas]

First born and left handed.
I love being on a roof, climb a ladder... but in some occassion like in a glass elevator, I do feel uneasy.

There must be some truth to this story as not that many people are left handed and most of the respondants were left handed. Then again maybe most right handed are staying silent.

 

[Wang Chung]

Firstborn, disproportionately afraid of left-handers.

 

[aroden]

I'm left handed and am terrified of heights - it took ALLOT of lessons before I could fly without feeling the onset of what felt like a panic attack. Every time I looked down and saw a tower, I'd visualize the plane hitting it and tumbling to the earth in pieces. And the instructor had trouble getting me to stall the airplane completely during practice for the same reason.

But that's part, maybe the best part, of the exhilaration of flying - knowing that I've conquered the fear.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

First born, right handed but left footed.

 

[minitour]

I'm first born...hell, only born...unless you count the blood clots my mother dragged out of her with a coat hangar....

and I'm afraid of heights.

-mini