I’m the same way. Takeoff is scary to me because you get catapulted up into the air, the plane turns/banks hard out of DCA, and then the engine noises change and the angle of plane drops as you hit cruising altitude—it feels like falling or something going wrong. However, my fear is probably due to a bad helicopter flight where we had to do an autorotation (i.e., they cut the engine and the centrifugal force of the falling aircraft causes the rotors to keep spinning). …Maybe I have PTSD