- Fear of Flying: This is a CD-ROM of VR technology that simulates different significant scenarios for people afraid of flying. It allows to graduate different degrees of threat and various flight incidents with the purpose of assess and treat particular and idiosyncratic aspects of this phobia.

Flying Phobia is an increasing problem in industrialized countries. Approximately a 10% of the general population never takes a plane due to their intense fear of flying. Another 25% experience great anxiety when flying and, often, they depend on alcohol or pills to endure the flight. Anxiety is not limited to actual flight, but spread to the previous moments, such as when the person knows he/she has to take a plane (which could be not only days but months in advance), and any

situation related to the trip (going to a travel agency, booking the tickets, going to the airports, etc.). Interference in social and working life may carry distressing consequences to the persons that repeatedly avoid using this mean of transport. Curiously, however, this fear does not correspond to air transport safety levels. Data from the National Transportation

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Statistics (1985) are revealing: air travel is :

- 29 times safer than travelling by car
- 18 times safer than being at home
- 10 times safer that being at work
- 8 times safer that walking down the streets
- 4 times safer than travelling by train

Treatment is aimed to any person that finds impossible to take a plane due to their intense anxiety, or to those that actually fly but feeling highly distressed due to their fear.