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Both of those planes are excellent. No problem there.

Psychoanalysis is a good thing to do. But it cannot help you deal with anxiety except anxiety that is based on a HIDDEN inner conflict, such as you want to do something. but it is against your ethics or morals. In such cases, the person unconsciously wants to keep the conflict out of awareness, and there is anxiety that you may become aware of wanting to do something immoral.

For example, a client was severely abused by a parent. When the parent died, my client experienced anxiety for weeks. The client felt responsible for the parent's death. That was the clue. The client, when a child, had to want to get rid of the severe abuse and thus had to want to get rid of the parent, and had fantasies of killing the parent. But these were morally unacceptable so they did not become conscious. Then, when the parent died, the client unconsciously felt responsible. The anxiety was fear that the issue would surface. After repeatedly telling the client that it is impossible not to want the parent to die - which the client initially strongly denied - the client slowly came to awareness that as a child, there had been a desire to kill the mother.

But anxiety about the outcome of a flight cannot be helped by psychoanalysis, unless it somehow involves an inner conflict, such as taking a vacation when an elderly parent potentially might become ill.

Therapists often look for some trauma as the cause of the anxiety. But flight anxiety is caused, not by a trauma in most cases, but by not developing enough ability to regulate emotions when facing uncertainty.

We are born with half of the emotion regulation system in place, the half that revs us up. The half that calms us down does not exist at birth. By eighteen months a part of the brain develops that can let the child calm itself. The child memorizes the steps caregivers use to provide calming. If the steps are highly effective, the child can calm itself independently using the steps memorized.

Obviously, caregivers - regardless of how much they care - vary in their ability to tune in the child and assure the child effectively. As a result, few of us get an optimal ability to calm ourselves.

During teenage years, we tend to think bad things only happen to others. This youthful optimism gets us by for a few years without excessive anxiety. But as we mature, we realize something can happen to us. We then turn to strategies to keep anxiety when dealing with uncertainty under control. The strategies typically involve control and escape.

Control: when anxiety is not naturally available, we depend on control of situations to avoid anxiety. When driving a car, we believe we can make everything work out alright. Though driving is not as safe as flying, we feel safer because the wheel is in our own, not someone else's, hands.

Escape: if there is a car accident, there may be a chance of surviving. If a plane, people mistakenly believe that if something goes wrong they are doomed. In a plane, if something goes wrong, backup systems are used. Backup systems make flying safer than driving. But these systems are in the cockpit where they seem theoretical. Though backup systems provide greater safety in a plane than is available in a car, the systems are not as real to a passenger as a steering wheel is in the hands of a driver.

Since the backup systems are not concrete enough to make passengers feel safe, many try to escape psychologically by keeping their thoughts elsewhere throughout the flight. If, due to turbulence, the person cannot keep the flight out of mind, there is no way to keep feelings under control.

I need you to understand that the feelings you are troubled by are caused by stress hormones, mainly adrenalin and cortisol. They rev you up. When you get several "hits" of these stress hormones - caused by several thoughts, worries, concerns, etc. - you get claustrophobia, high anxiety or even panic.

We prevent the release of adrenalin and cortisol by causing the release of oxytocin. Oxytocin shuts down the amygdala, the part of the brain that triggers the release of the hormones that cause fear.

We cause the release of oxytocin by linking each thing that happens on a flight, and each thing you worry about, to the memory of a moment that causes oxytocin to be released. Once the links are established between an oxytocin-producing moment and troublesome moments of flight, high anxiety and panic are automatically controlled. This is an advanced way of controlling the feelings, and it was not possible to do this until research using brain scan technology showed us how the brain works.

To establish the links, a person follows step-by-step the linking sequences shown on video available at http://www.fearofflying.com/relief

Once it is set up, you will fly (no matter how doubtful you are) like everyone else does. When you fly, you will be totally amazed and wonder what happened to the feelings. Enroll in Complete Relief. View the videos online, or download them. (We can also send you DVDs while you are using the online viewing.) There are forty video clips. When you get to clip number nine, call me so I can make sure that the way you are doing the exercise that establishes automatic control is set up just right. The details are important.

Please go to: www.fearofflying.com/relief/ and sign up. That WILL give you what you are looking for. Most people doubt anything will work, but this does, as you can see from the thousands of comments on the message board.