I had trouble with flying, especially taking off, and my strategy for dealing with it was to buy a thriller of some sort at the airport, and start reading it pr

I had trouble with flying, especially taking off, and my strategy for dealing with it was to buy a thriller of some sort at the airport, and start reading it prior to getting on the plane. Books by people like Tom Clancy, John Grisham, or Daniel Silva, are cunningly designed to be hard to stop reading, so as long as I have ten minutes or so before takeoff, I could usually get to a place where I was thoroughly absorbed in the book. One side effect is that I have read an embarrassing number of really cheesy books, but hey, it worked.