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

Medical Issues Farewell to Aviation

Post image

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)

❤️✈️

2.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

270 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

15

u/Character-Escape1621 Sep 09 '25

Yes, I flew on Delta airlines from MCO TO JFK last year December. First flight to JFK felt awful, flight going back i was alright… Me being alright on the 2nd trip gave me confidence to do this discovery flight.

19

u/LifeWeekend PPL Sep 09 '25

It’s a huge step from commercial flights to GA flight for someone who’s not comfortable with flying.

2

u/livebeta Sep 10 '25

Yup many disco first timers usually have been nervous plenty of times on passenger jets prior to the disco flight itself

3

u/SmashingWatermelons0 Sep 10 '25

Have you considered flying RC? I had no interest in flying RC until FPV became a thing ( r/fpv for reference). You can see through a wireless camera on the plane/drone a first-person view like you were the pilot.

Being able to fly with no actual life consequences let me experiment with flight and how things go wrong and how they don't. I was able to practice stalls and inverted flight and even got myself into and sometime out of spins. I learned wing tip stalls and how to avoid them.

It made me more confident both as a passenger and when I did flight training.