Ola Wagstrom is terribly acrophobic, or afraid of heights. He had a recurring nightmare as a child of falling out of an airplane, so planes tend to be the setting which cause the most apprehension for him. This fear was only reinforced when he was flying with his father on a vacation and was on a plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Denmark. He's basically been afraid of heights since he was very young, but as a hockey player, it's not something he can avoid; he has to fly from city to city every day with the team. He has learned some breathing exercises and takes some sleeping pills any time he boards a plane to try to keep his composure. The first time he boarded a team hockey plane in the SMJHL, for the Detroit Falcons, he practically had a panic attack, but his teammates were very nice about it and reassured him. Since then, he's gotten a bit better at ignoring it, but it's always nagging at the back of his mind.