I have never cared for it even when I flew a lot. I usually kept it to myself out of embarrassment, but white knuckles on the arm rest busted me with coworkers a few times. I was surprised how many frequent flyers would open up to me about their fears when they noticed mine. It doesn't help that I have experienced an aborted landing when a wind gust tilted the plane to one side really low to the ground and another time a hard landing that popped open a lot of overhead bins and spilled stuff into the aisle. People screamed during that hard landing; we are far from alone in our fear. As one frequent flyer explained to me, the more you fly the more you get used to it, but at the same time your fear becomes more rational because of flying so much.