"Roger" wrote in message
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On 23 Jul 2006 12:57:53 -0700, "minoad" wrote:

Fear is a strange animal. Of course it comes in degrees from unease
through apprehension, to downright unreasoning full blown fear.

Your first sentence is on the money. Even after hundreds of hours, on the
night before an extended flight, I would lay awake and fret about the
aircraft, about the weather, about other aircraft. But when I opened the
throttle the next day, all fear was gone. I never got over it.