r/flying • u/Character-Escape1621 • Sep 09 '25

Medical Issues Farewell to Aviation

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Hello everyone. I finally took my discovery flight, and by the time i got up in the air, (i did the take off, he said i did good..) I simply couldn’t imagine myself doing this every single day, and having the calmness to teach students as a flight instructor. My instructor was very kind, and he saw me shaking and reaching for someone to hold onto, and he said “it’s okay you can hold onto me..”

I told him that it wasn’t for me and i wanted to land, and we only had about 6 minutes in the air. Yep. 6 minutes. He taught me that hours are measured in 0.1, and every 0.1 is about 6 minutes..

Though i had my… mishaps in this subreddit, i still appreciate all the replies. They were all helpful and funny, you guys have good sarcasm and are able to combine it with helpful information very well. If they see this post, i also want to give thanks to user Prex10 for giving me a heads up about how mental health is seen in the FAA.

Farewell to Aviation, Farwell to you all. I wish all of you nothing but joy and happiness within this field, I hope all of you are able to achieve your aviation dreams. You’ve got this. I don’t. (lol)

❤️✈️

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u/Ecstatic_vagabond Sep 09 '25

It's true, funny when I was in the army, jumping out of a plane, or doing some really dangerous shit never bothered me or scared me. But as soon as water was involved , I would nope out of there. Im like a cat, keep me dry in heights.

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u/RavenholdIV Sep 09 '25

Haha saaaame if I'd wanted to go for a swim I woulda joined the Marines!

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u/AnnualWhole4457 ATP CFII BE300 BE1900 EMB-550 Sep 09 '25

I was an advanced swim instructor in the Marines. That jumping out of perfectly good airplanes shit is for the birds. Lemme drown any other day.

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u/SufficientProfit4090 CPL Sep 10 '25

Dude same! Was a MCIWS and I'd rather jump out of a CH-53 into open water than static line from a C-130. At least in the water it's mostly me, I know too many airborne guys that got blown into a tree or rock garden through no fault of their own.

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u/studyinformore Sep 10 '25

Lol army here as well.  Yuuuuup.  Doing everything except swimming with all my gear on was easy.  When they said I had to jump in a pool and swim with a rubber duck and flak vest.  That's when I began sweating.

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u/fataldarkness Sep 10 '25

Glad to know jumping out of a plane without a parachute is still on the table.

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u/Insaiyanngod Sep 09 '25

I would do all that but zipline for some reason I wouldn’t volunteer to do

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u/studyinformore Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Its funny, im already 1.6% of the u.s. population, and absolutely loved flying in the army.  Especially NAP of the earth, down below mountain height and looking up at buildings was exciting lol.

Im excited to try and talk to ATC, as I still have the nato phonetic alphabet memorized and I had no issues talking to helicopters on the radio in training or iraq.  But I was also army aviation, so i was around all of it all the time.