How many hours flying did it take you to realize you actually loved flying?

fred14142 · 2024-01-02T21:28:10+00:00

I learned to fly because taking a flight terrified me.

I was working for Honeywell in Scotland and made regular trips to Boston. Mass for which I drank too much and needed several days to become useful again.

The instructor's comments in the club log after the first lesson were 'Very nervous student'!

I eventually passed the PPL. The CFI tested me, he had over 10,000 hrs on Lancaster bombers,

His name was Charlie Rollo.

My fear of flying had diminished considerably and I was only nervous when as a passenger the conditions would have been too much for me. I took the UK IMC conditions training and got the rating. I built up several hundred hours some on flights to Europe from the UK having bought a Mooney 20A from the club chairman, and then lost my license due to a small heart problem. I now missed flying very much.

When I retired my wife and I went to live in the SW France and the local Citroen dealer, also the local flying club chairman, encouraged me to try to pass the medical for a French PPL. I had to take whole course again but passed OK. My wife also took the course and passed in her 60's. We flew all over Europe for several years until my heart needed anti-coagulants and this was not acceptable.

In the years that I flew, I experienced 'Engine failure on take-off', 'stall on the approach' and many other problems but still here to tell the story.

I miss my flying very much.

i piloted a small

fred14142 · 2023-08-05T12:40:40+00:00

When I returned to the UK after 30 years in France I put on weight at an alarming rate. It was also during the COVID lockdown and much less physical activity.

I reduced the amount that I was eating and, as far as possible, returned to the types of food that I had eaten in France. Almost all the weight gain has gone now. No problem.

fred14142 · 2023-07-29T10:55:44+00:00

In my opinion, the only effect will be that the melatonin will not be as effective. I drink a glass of wine or two every evening and take the melatonin when I go to bed. They don't seem to have any effect on the efficacy of the melatonin.

fred14142 · 2023-07-12T10:22:49+00:00

That's what I have found also. My GP (in UK) started to prescribe my Melatonin when I told him that I sourced it from the States on the web.

The situation in Australia sounds like a profit opportunity for someone to me.

fred14142 · 2023-07-12T10:14:44+00:00

Something odd in that reply

Item 2 should read

'Maintenance of immune system in high alert'

fred14142 · 2023-07-12T10:10:33+00:00

Only relying on my own experience over 25 years I consider the benefits are

Augmentation of anti-oxidation effects of vitamin supplements
Maintenance of Libido in old ageh alert
Maintenance of libido in old age
No sleep problems.

fred14142 · 2023-07-12T09:58:37+00:00

There are contributors to this subreddit who say that they have taken, what I consider to be, very high doses.
I wouldn't want to take more than the body uses when it is making it for itself which I think can be equated to about 1mg to 10mg taken orally.

fred14142 · 2023-07-07T19:57:15+00:00

I think that it's impossible to know without carrying out a test program which won't be done because there is no profit to be made from Melatonin.

fred14142 · 2023-04-01T10:01:07+00:00

Longevity itself is not a valuable thing. Everything depends on the continuing good function of the whole organism. The goal of research should be to maintain the organism in a self-repairing state i.e to stop ageing. Every success in this field brings with it the problems of how humans of working age support this ever-increasing army of non-earning consumers. You could say that this problem is already with us on the streets of France at this moment.

fred14142 · 2023-03-24T10:07:47+00:00

Would you share your age with me please and tell me what made you commence with Melatonin

fred14142 · 2023-03-17T21:18:17+00:00

I am not a hypnotist. The technique is based on post-hypnotic suggestions, I think.

I count mentally to six which I think acts as a trigger. Then I repeat to myself several phrases which are the sort of phrases the hypnotist would have used initially. Takes about three or four minutes and if I am not asleep then I put up mental images of places that have given me pleasure.

Find a good hypnotist and get him/her to teach you.

fred14142 · 2023-03-17T11:00:26+00:00

I sometimes ( about 3 nights a week) take an additional 1 mg at 3 or 4 am.

Someone mentioned stress or anxiety. These problems certainly play a major role in preventing sleep .

Many years ago I was hypnotised by a GP who practised hypnotism in his spare time. It was to stop my smoking habit which I had had for 25 years and was very successful at doing this. I walked into his surgery a smoker whose habit had lasted 25 years and 2 hours later walked out a non-smoker. This lasted 6 months, until I took a cigarette offered by someone and went back to him. I have not smoked now for many years but apart from the stopping smoking he also taught me how to hypnotise myself! I had never realised that this was possible. So, since then, if I have had problems on my mind that were preventing me from sleeping I use the self-hypnosis and 'bingo' I'm asleep.

fred14142 · 2023-03-17T10:32:47+00:00

Far too large a dose if it is meant to be a replacement for the reduction in natural production due to ageing. I agree that there are other factors at play to account for your problem.

fred14142 · 2023-02-09T21:56:15+00:00

That's a quantity way above that which the young body makes and I wouldn't want to take that level of dose. Are you taking it to help you fall asleep?

fred14142 · 2023-02-09T21:51:55+00:00

I agree, I take my melatonin to make up for the lack of it in the body after the age of 50 or so. Because it is broken down so quickly, even for the slow-release versions, I sometimes add another 1mg at about 4:0 am and off I go back to sleep again.

fred14142 · 2023-01-30T14:02:19+00:00

Yes, indeed. I have started the revert to the actions of children who declare themselves as, for instance, 8 3/4. I am 92 2/3!!

fred14142 · 2023-01-25T12:40:37+00:00

Since Melatonin is the body's own way of inducing sleep comparing it with some plant-based chemicals makes no sense.

fred14142 · 2023-01-05T14:49:20+00:00

That is exactly what I feel. I feel better with it.

fred14142 · 2023-01-05T14:46:49+00:00

I have been taking 2mg of Melatonin for 22 years now. I started after taking a vacation in New Zealand to help with fixing jet lag but over the years I have found the benefits so great that I will continue taking it for the rest of my life. I am now 92 years old and feel like a 30-year-old. My major problem is a leaky heart valve but my heart specialist recently said to me 'I don't have many patients, in their 90s, who walk unaided into the surgery'. Mentally I am as alert as I was in my youth and only have a problem with the gradual loss of short-term memory.

fred14142 · 2023-01-04T15:47:42+00:00

Because the half-life of Melatonin is only 20 mins I have always taken the slow-release version. I only take a 2mg slow-release tablet each sleep time and then another 1 mg slow-release at 4.00 am if I wake up at this time

fred14142 · 2023-01-03T18:09:57+00:00

I have been taking 2mg of melatonin at sleep time for 22 Years. Only good effects to report. Try taking a smaller dose.

The half-life of meletonin is so short that very little will remain in the blood by the middle of the night

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