Nervous flyer considering learning to glide

On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 4:37:40 PM UTC-4, Caecilius wrote:
I'm a nervous flyer who spends a lot of time as a commercial aircraft
passenger. My number one anxiety is that freefall feeling when the
plane drops, like you'd get on a rollercoster (I don't like those
either).

Keep trying by taking a few lessons. As advised, take them when it is smooth at first and find an instructor who is sympathetic.

Try this visualization technique and see if it helps: You are moving through a fluid (air) but you just can't see it. Visualize the aircraft as a boat moving across waves, like on a lake. Sometimes it is carried up a wave and then back down. But the boat never goes that far up or that far down. Neither will the glider. It may seem like it can, but it won't.

I'm not real crazy about heights but 1) I know I'm not going to fall out of the airplane; 2) I know the airplane isn't going to suddenly fall out of the sky. I know these things because I've been taught them and experienced them as a pilot.

Knowledge is your friend. If you persist and try expanding your confidence envelope a little bit at a time, you will overcome this fear.