How do I pass Jump School with a Fear of Heights?

I wouldn't so much worry about the jumping, and falling into nothingness: It's the sudden stop that will kill you!! Best way to prepare is to arrive at Ft. Benning in good shape with a well above average APFT score. Listen to your instructors and take training seriously, but still have fun along the way. You will get a little sick and queasy, but that comes with anything that you do the first time in the Army. That's natural. Channel that nervousness into something useful, like checking and rechecking your gear, and that of those around you. When you stand up, hook up, and shuffle to the door, the adrenaline will push away your fears......move to the door, think about getting a good door position, and then you'll be mercifully sucked out of the plane. Your parachute and gravity will do the rest. Make sure that you check your canopy, and steer clear of other jumpers around you. Enjoy the ride, but concentrate on getting into a good and proper landing position. Ground rush is for real!! Get ready for it. If you are lucky enough to make it to an airborne unit, learn to embrace everything about it. It will get better and you will learn to love it. Airborne, All the Way!!

I was afraid of heights when I went to Airborne School. In fact, I still am. Now I'm a Master rated Jumpmaster.
Looking at the ground from that height is more surreal than anything. It's scarier to be on a high dive than 1000 feet in the air.
As the jumper, you just sit in the plane and distract yourself. Sing a song, sleep, think of anything but how scared you are. It's good to have a ritual. There was a certain song I sang to myself for the first ten jumps or so.
After that, you just have to walk to the door. The JM will help you get out if you stall. I'm not saying I've thrown anyone out.... But I've definitely never had anyone who stalled in my door not make it out lol.
The fear never goes away, but you learn how to overcome it, and that is a skill that you can apply to every fear in your life.

Jumping is different. Height isn't a big deal.

I dont like heights, either, but it is easier for me to jump than climb a ladder.

Just chute up, hook up, and go.

I’ve always looked at heights and altitude differently, PV2 Reza Satari. My palms start sweating on the third rung of an eight foot step ladder! However, looking out of the window of an aircraft, I’ve never had that feeling. Was I scared when I first started jumping? Sure, but it wasn’t that sweaty palms, vertigo like feeling I get when I’m on the roof of my house cleaning my gutters!
Go to jump school and let them train you. You’ll be fine.
SGT Mark Halmrast SSG Laurie Mullen MAJ David Wallace

I dont like heights but I'm a Junpmaster. And I love my time hanging outside the plane.
I've also been a mountaineering instructor, and I hated climbing the rock with 8 ropes on my back to set up the climbing lanes.
It's a different kind of heights. Once that green light comes on, you just go. Dont worry about height till it comes time to land. Then you just keep your feet and knees together.

Every human being has a fear of heights.
The reason why there is a 34' tower at Airborne school is because that is the specific height of a fall that should be fatal, invoking your fear of heights, and giving you the whole second week of school for the opportunity to overcome the fear with trust in your equipment, similar to a top rope or belay in climbing.
You also have two parachutes to get you safely to the ground, every time.
No one ever loses their fear of heights, regardless of how many jumps you rack up, the fear is a survival mechanism that keeps you alive, and makes you do the right thing if you ever do have a malfunction, bump into another jumper, or are unable to avoid trees, wires or water before you land.

Understanding that it is not natural to jump out of a perfectly good airplane is something you must realize, and being afraid for most people is a reality at Jump School. There are a very small group of folks who are not fearful-if you are in the majority then embrace the following:

1. You will be fully trained before you jump and ready for the challenge

2. You will be physically ready for the challenge

3. Your equipment is the best and well maintained to protect you.

4. The most dedicated cadre will be there for you through the process

5. Being afraid is normal,and expected...your there to overcome your fears and become confident and courageous.

6. When you put the wings on your chest you will be in a new category militarily speaking; and it will follow you your whole life.

7. Fear is the enemy and it will foster doubt and doubt creates failure. ZFocus in one day at a time, and the task at hand and the next thing you know you will be landing your fifth jump!

8. Then know many Soldiers who earn their wings never jump again...but hopefully you will find a renewed courage inside you that will lead you to a unit that does jump so you can build upon your skills and knowledge!

Truth in Lending-I am deathly afraid of heights since a young man; went to Jump school to prove to myself I could overcome the fear, passed and served in three on status units and became a Jumpmaster...if I can do it; I know you can Brother-look forward to seeing you on a DZ very soon-ATW!

How much climbing have you done on the rock wall? Have you considered taking lessons from a civilian skydiving school? You may have to force yourself to keep climbing and find other ways to safely put yourself in a position where you feel that fear. It's ok to feel the fear, but you need to learn how to control it so it doesn't control you. I understand your fear because when I was little I was climbing up a cliff at a local park and got caught on a ledge. I sneaked away when my father was preoccupied with my little sister and started climbing because I thought I could do it on my own. Years later I was terrified of just standing on the staircase at school. I hope you get control of your fear soon so you can attend the course.

I was on jump status for 17 years and was afraid of heights. Just take a deep breath and realize how many folks have been on jump status and how few have been killed or injured. Anyone with any sense would be afraid - you just have to learn to control it and not let it control you. Trust in your equipment and the fellow Soldiers around you!

Trust in your training and the camaraderie of doing a duty of an unnatural act that a soldier in front of you just found the courage to do and you jump out that door also because the soldier behind you is depending on you to do the same. Trust me...climbing down a wall is more dicey difficult than participating in an airborne operation. Jumping out the door takes courage..yes..but once out...it's the bast part of your day and is too easy..the real work begins when your on the ground...remember...FEET AND KNEES TOGETHER..