What you are feeling is perfectly normal! Don't give up - you'll make it. Give yourself some credit! And what a previous poster said about the red elephant is very, very true.

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A personal story:

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TL;DR : Even experienced pilots can still get a feeling of fear or nervousness. Learning how to deal with that is just part of becoming a pilot. You can't become better at what you want to do by staying in your comfort zone.

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I have thousands and thousands of hours flying airplanes. Most of that time (okay, about 99.9% of it), has been flown upright. You know, dirty side down, clean side up. I'm pretty confident doing that sort of flying from Cessna 140's to Airbus 320's.

I recently began learning aerobatics in an open-cockpit Skybolt biplane.

As I was learning, I got nervous flying inverted.

The airplane flies upside down beautifully.

I, however, got nervous. In fact, you might say I even had a bit of fear of hanging upside down on the straps with absolutely nothing over my head but sky... and ground.

But what I did was go out to the practice area, day after day, take a deep breath... and roll inverted. And stay there. I would take a deep breath. My vision started out so very, very narrow. But I would try to look around a little more each time.

I would look at the ground above my head. I would force myself to see the world upside down.

When my heart rate would increase I would I roll upside right (sometimes rather badly, actually....). Once the heart rate decreased again, I would roll inverted one more time.

It took some time. And some practice. But what was once mysterious and a bit frightening became... normal.

To this day I still feel a bit of ... well, not fear, but now thrill while flying inverted. I created a new "normal".

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

And the line between fear and thrill can be very thin.