I think I'm probably wound too tight, not
necessarily to take the lessons and get the license, but for the
inevitable emergency that will at some point take place while I'm in
the cockpit.

Well, it took 25 years of flying and four thousand some hours before that
emergency took place for me. You'd be surprised how calm you get knowing
that you have been preparing for this sort of event from the first day you
went up into the air.




Bitterly disappointed really, I plan on getting some help for the
bigger issue which is my nervousness and fear.

Sir, if you can find a person with a bigger fear and nervousness and flying
than I was when I started in this game, I'd like to see the color of his or
her hair. I threw up every morning for the first five lessons and I wasn't
even pregnant {;-)




Thanks all for your suggestions, I just don't think this is for me
anymore.

Go find a friend that has been a pilot for a while. Ask him/her to walk
into another FBO and ask for a Discovery Flight and that your friend wants
to meet the instructor that will be going with him/her. Let HIM/HER take
the discovery flight and if (s)he says that the guy is good, go for it
again. Don't just walk in the door and take any meathook that they want to
shove at you.

Like any other endeavor, there are good and bad practitioners. Finding a
gifted teacher and a gifted pilot in the same body is rather difficult but
certainly possible.

Give it another go; you won't regret it. Who knows? Forty years later you
may wind up giving somebody else the same advice.

Jim

Student Pilot Airplane 1964
Private Pilot Airplane 1967
Commercial Pilot 1969
Flight Instructor Airplane 1970
Ground Instructor 1970
Instrument Pilot 1973
Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic 1976
Commercial Pilot Glider 1977
Flight Instructor Glider 1980
Destroyed Airplane In Engine Failure, Three Passengers, Not A Scratch 1988
Mechanic Inspection Authorization 1999

.... hmmm ... time to add some more ratings {;-)