Whirlybird,
Your encouraging and optimistic outlook is refreshing
I have been asked the very same question by a close friend who is a pilot... what are the real reasons for wanting to fly?
Captainkarl... i can relate to how you feel
I am also keen to get started on my flight training, but the medical is the only damper to my enthusiasm. A few years ago, i started getting heart palpitations which warranted my doctor to send me to a specialist. After a halter ECG and the routine tests, the results were inconclusive other than the fact that i developed tachycardia at irregular times. My faith in the medical profession wavered, and i left it at that, but the palpitations continued, and got worse when i went through a very stressful period. Also have a family history of diabetes but thankfully have not developed the condition as of yet. I am very apprehensive of the initial medical, which i am certain, will pick up this condition, and the idea that:
1. I will be prodded at like a guinea pig waiting to hear the ominous news and
2. the possibility that my flight training may be nothing more than a passionate dream unfulfilled
leaves me very uneasy and disheartened.
I have various qualifications i can fall back on as a last resort, but at this point in my life, i was hoping for a change in direction and pace, and my passion for flying and enthusiasm surrounding aviation made me wonder if maybe this would be a prospective line of work to get involved in. A lot of my friends are contract pilots, and i have seen and heard that the road ahead is very challenging, so you could say i am at a cross-roads regarding the choices i have to make regarding a future career in aviation, as well as if i will even stand a chance with the medical issues i have mentioned.
Any uplifting advice?
