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Title: flying again
Post by: john gunn on April 28, 2015, 04:25:26 PM

 I was not able to fly for many years, a few days ago I flew for the first time without getting dizzy. I had vertigo, blood pressure problems and sugar problems.  Something happened and all that went away, not sure why but glad it happened.

I went out to fly, ringmaster and a Enya 20, I filled up the tank and my friend Daniel let the plane go, after 12 minutes I signaled for him to take over the flight and he flew for about 6 minutes.  I did not get dizzy.  I had filled the 31/2 ounce tank up without thinking about the small motor, it did not miss a beat.  I learned a lot that day.  Now I can get back to the pattern again. 

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: John Cralley on April 28, 2015, 05:02:26 PM

Great! How appropriate that you are back flying a Ringmaster! Many many of us first soloed flying an S-1 Ringmaster!

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Avaiojet on April 28, 2015, 05:32:38 PM

John,

Wow, that's great! Looking forward to your posts.

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Dalton Hammett on April 28, 2015, 06:42:12 PM

Welcome back !!!   A lot of us did not fly for years and had to start again but it is a great feeling to be able to get out in the circle again.

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Will Hinton on April 28, 2015, 07:18:53 PM

What a wonderful blessing that your physical problems left the circle!!!  Welcome back, and many happy flying sessions!

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: De Hill on April 28, 2015, 09:16:12 PM

Congratulations John Gunn; it's good to see you flying again!

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Jason Greer on April 28, 2015, 10:01:50 PM

Great to hear you are back in the circle, John. Hope to see you and Daniel in El Dorado this weekend.

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Howard Rush on April 28, 2015, 10:10:25 PM

That's great news.  

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: john e. holliday on April 29, 2015, 12:06:40 PM

That is great news about your health problems.   Me, I just need to get out more often, I hate flying by my self.   

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Randy Ryan on April 30, 2015, 06:08:24 AM

WOW John, fantastic!!!!! Welcome back, I know how you must feel. I do have a little BP issue but that doesn't stop me, I have nerve impingement in my right shoulder, elbow and wrist and it really messes with my patterns sometimes.

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Jim Kraft on April 30, 2015, 07:35:51 AM

That is great John; Glad you are back in the circle again. I to have had problems since I have had inner ear infection twice, and it does still bother me but only in the overhead maneuvers, and most times not much. Sometimes I think it is a blessing that any of us can fly at all. Anyway, really glad to have you back flying again. We need all we can get and each of us counts as 1.

Title: Re: flying again
Post by: Don Chandler on April 30, 2015, 08:49:24 AM

I went through the same thing about 4 years ago and was sent to a facility in Redding that specialized in a physical therapy program for vertigo. It worked great and havn't had a problem with it since. My sodium count is for some reason on the high end of normal and  the ENT doc I see has advised me to watch sodium intake and that has really helped also.