Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has a selective fear of heights.

The congressman says he “can’t climb a pole or climb a tower — that scares me to death.”

But get him in the pilot’s seat of a two-person plane, and before long he’ll be 4,000 feet above ground, throwing the aircraft into spins, loops and so-called “tummy drops.

“It’s just a blast,” he says of the aerobatics he has learned in his long tenure as a pilot and flying enthusiast.

Graves explains the seemingly incongruous feelings this way: In a plane, “you’ve got mass around you,” whereas a mountain climber, for instance, has nothing between him and the ground except air.

“Now that’s crazy,” he says.

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