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John after all of these years I never knew you were a pilot.

I've always loved flying and always had a problem with heights. Never knew exactly where the line was.

I discovered it while taking flying lessons. Groundschool no problem, flying no problem, but stalling even a Cessna 172 (maybe the most gentle stall of anything with wings) was enough to put me into a blind panic every time. And that was the end of my "flying career".

It might have been possible to tough my way through the stalls or go for a sport license where stall/spin testing is not covered (I think that's still the case) but I didn't feel that I would come out a safe pilot. If I couldn't count on my reactions in an emergency then IMO there was no way I should be flying...

On a positive note, once you've budgeted for supporting a private pilot habit, everything else seems really inexpensive by comparison

Actually I guess the lowest point of my "flying experience" was when I was reading an article on the internet about an advanced pilot training course dealing with things like inverted flat spins.

I ended up running to the washroom and throwing up from just *reading* about inverted flat spins...