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An accident (or incident) you lived or have witnessed, has left you with fears, which overwhelm your flying pleasure. Knowing that:

- People's capacity to visualize a risk is an important part of the attention they give to it. So if you can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, you will exaggerate its likelihood.
- What availability does to you: It plants an image that comes readily to mind, and that image is associated with an emotion: Fear.

To recover, you must believe you have significantly increased your safety level, by doing as many of the following as necessary:

- Following a maneuvers clinic to associate new positive images of control over departures from normal flight. Note that you will have to overcome a temporary spike of fears, before and during the clinic.
- Trading your wing for a more relaxing one.
- Choosing milder flying conditions. See also: Risk-taking Creates Anxiety.
- Clean-up your entourage to reject those inciting you to take risk.