Captain Tom Bunn, a retired pilot and licensed therapist, established SOAR, a program aimed at helping everyone fly successfully, in 1982. He's since assisted thousands of people as they conquer their ...

At one point or another, as many as 12.5% of Americans will struggle with a phobia — “an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger” — according to the National ...

COLONIE — A retired pilot and a psychiatrist are teaming up for a talk next month on how to combat a fear of flying. Known as aerophobia or aviophobia, this fear can keep people from traveling on ...

Intense fear of flying, called aviophobia, is a highly prevalent psychological phenomenon, afflicting (in some estimates) up to 40% of the population of industrialized countries. This staggering ...

I used to love flying when I was a kid and even told people I wanted to be a pilot when I grew up. But something happened during college that seriously damaged my love of the skies: a friend's father ...