There is a clip on our You Tube channel and home page that will give you a bit of a flavour of what we do on our larger, adult group courses

Yes. 

1. Have a look through the testimonials on our ‘message board’

2. There is a 12 minute clip that you can watch as many times as you like posted onto our You Tube channel. Here is the clip.  This is a good way to desensitize yourself to what happens onboard the aircraft and provides some reassuring answers to some of the common questions that nervous flyers have.

Yes of course. Please call the office on 01423 714900 and this will cost £100+VAT for someone to join you for the flight only.  It is also worth considering whether you actually need to bring a companion. Sometimes, our well meaning relatives, will make it too easy to back out if we crumble…Only bring a companion if you genuinely know that they are definitely needed.

We measure the success on random courses in two ways.

Measure 1:  We do a simple count of how many take the flight. This only gives us one measure, as it doesn’t show how many of those would have flown anyway regardless of our course – which is why measure 2 is even more important.

Measure 2:  On random courses, we ask people to rate at the beginning and end of the day how they feel about flying on a scale of 1-10.  On the random course we have chosen to evaluate, this is asked of all the people that attend regardless of whether they have flown before, currently fly or have never flown.    (Out of interest, the general percentage for most courses is roughly:  10% never flown; 40% have flown at some point (even regularly) but have now stopped for various reasons; Lastly, about 50% still fly and their fear is to varying degrees.)  We then use that difference to give us a measure of the how the course has improved their feelings towards flying.  Some people make significant movement, others, it is more incremental but there is always improvement provided the delegates give themselves permission not to be perfect straight away!  The last course that we measured, the success rate was 98.6%.

We also get lots of postcards every week from graduates of our course and also feedback is regularly left on our ‘Message Board’.

We measure the success on random courses in two ways.
Measure 1: We do a simple count of how many take the flight. This only gives us one measure, as it doesn’t show how many of those would have flown anyway regardless of our course – which is why measure 2 is even more important. Measure 2: On random courses, we ask people to rate at the beginning and end of the day how they feel about flying on a scale of 1-10. On the random course we have chosen to evaluate, this is asked of all the people that attend regardless of whether they have flown before, currently fly or have never flown. (Out of interest, the general percentage for most courses is roughly: 10% never flown; 40% have flown at some point (even regularly) but have now stopped for various reasons; Lastly, about 50% still fly and their fear is to varying degrees.) We then use that difference to give us a measure of the how the course has improved their feelings towards flying. Some people make significant movement, others, it is more incremental but there is always improvement provided the delegates give themselves permission not to be perfect straight away! The last course that we measured, the success rate was 98.6%. We also get lots of postcards every week from graduates of our course and also feedback is regularly left on our ‘Message Board’.

Every course is held near to the local airport. The full course details will be either:

sent out to you in the post if you pay over the phone or

down-loadable if you book online.

We don’t reveal exact location of our courses until you have booked with us and this is for security reasons.

Start and finish times vary on every course. However, the basic structure on the adult premium course remains roughly the same. Please note that some courses start as early as 0700 in the morning. On some occasions, our courses start after lunch which means a late finish. If you would like to know the timings for your particular course, please email us [email protected] or call us on 01423 714900.

Arrivals and registration

Introductions from course founders

Pilot section

Cabin crew section

Psychology section

Accompanied and narrated flight

Optional question and answer session back in hotel

Please note, we are subject to the control of airport authorities. We often finish the course up to 15-30 mins later than advertised. On occasion, (thankfully rare) we have some air traffic control delays up to a couple of hours. Like we say, very very rare but please bear that in mind if booking onward travel after our course. We are not liable for any extra costs incurred due to delays out of our control. Hopefully that sounds reasonable to you.

If you lose your joining instructions, please email us and we will send a new letter out to you. Also, it is worth checking spam folders as confirmation letters often disappear into there too! On the weekend of your course, you can reach one of the team by emailing [email protected] which we check regularly.

It is quite common for adults to develop the fear later on in life. It can affect people who regularly take business or leisure travel, despite the fact that you may have travelled quite happily for years. You too can be helped. Often, people become more aware of their mortality as their responsibility increases i.e. Children, partners, etc. We regularly talk about this phenomenon on our courses as it’s so common.

We do run experience sessions specifically for children. When we first started running the adult courses, parents would contact about help for their children too. As most of the team are parents or have been children, we wanted to do something to help. We thought how hard it would be for parents of children with a fear of flying to get proper help. We wanted to do something proactive about it and started to accept accompanied young people onto our adult courses. However, we didn’t do this for long as we noticed how tiring it was for young people to be stuck with a roomful of adults all day! Plus, it would cost two full places on our course (£534) So, we have put on something special just for children that is more affordable. The courses are a half day session held at an aircraft mock up at the Virgin Atlantic training centre followed by an optional flight when we join the adult flying without fear course being run in different location. Current cost is £375 which covers one child and one fear free adult companion. The age group is 6 – 12 years only. If your young person is older than that, they can still join us but we have aimed the course at the younger audience. From 16, you can join unaccompanied on adult course if you wish.

Our help is open to anyone. We would be happy to discuss this with you to find the right way for you. Please email us and we will be delighted to help in any way that we can.

We started our courses in 1997 and we have helped thousands of people just like you. Our experience has shown us what an amazing difference people feel about flying by the end of their day with us. Please do visit our website ‘Message Board’ to see what those who’ve attended say.

Many people feel the same way. Our empathic team know what it takes to help you beat your fears and some of them have even suffered from them in the past too. In the UK alone, we estimate that there are over 12 million sufferers.

In reality, it’s extremely unlikely that this would happen, as we give you the tools to overcome your fears before the flight, however, if it did happen, we are trained to help.

Please do take a look in the ‘Why Choose us’ section of the website to see exactly why we’re so different. We also feel it’s vital to feature independent feedback directly from past attendees, which is why we invested in our website ‘Message Board’ system. We are constantly tweaking and improving the course. We want each course to be even better than the last and we don’t ever take it for granted the privilege of helping people like you to beat their fears.

This very much depends on air traffic control on the day. Wherever we go, you will have a full commentary from one of the pilots throughout the flight.

There is no pressure from us to do anything at all that you don’t want to do. We’ll support and encourage you all day and give you the tools that you’ll need. On the very rare occasion that someone chooses not to fly, one of our team will look after you and personally escort you back through the airport. Our support does not end there either but we’ll tell you about that on the day of your course. You will not be entitled to any form of refund if you decide not to fly on the day of your course.

We don’t use ‘Propeller’ aircraft on our courses because feedback has always told us that people prefer ‘Jet’ engines that are on the large modern commercial aircraft that we use. This does not mean that ‘Props’ are unsafe. We simply give you what you tell us you want and need to overcome your fears. By the way, props are safe. We know that our customers prefer engines with covers around the blades.

We use either Virgin branded aircraft or local trusted aviation partners to provide our specially chartered flight. We know that the safety standards for anyone that flies in UK airspace is the same at mandated by Civil Aviation Authority and Joint Aviation Authority. Therefore, we use the type of aircraft and airlines that you are most likely to fly with from your local airport. We want you to know how safe all commercial aviation is in the developed world and for you to fly with ease from wherever you choose to fly.

Please bring along either your passport or photo driving licence.