No, it doesn’t matter. Two of the instructors at High Perspective are terrified of heights and one can’t even look over a balcony. They are both perfectly at ease when flying in a hang glider.
A fear of heights is really a fear of falling. When hang gliding your body immediately realizes you can’t fall. You feel very well supported as you float through the air. You feel like you’re in a dream, like you have become a bird. It’s the opposite of a falling feeling. Sometimes it feels like you’re hardly moving. Thousands of people, once they get in the air, have been amazed that it’s not scary. “This is surreal,” so many have said.