An aging pilot

A pilot at the local airport (who is 85) recently sold his plane. When
I asked him why he said that the sight in one of his eyes was getting
poor, and he didn't think he could pass the medical again.

What did he need that extra eye for? I have had no useful forward
vision in my left eye for 70 years that I know of (I got specs at age
2). Except for a bit of extra caution with noting where the wingtips
are, the spare eye serves no useful purpose while flying.

(Well, there's my flight instructor, who has come out of several eye
operations with the astonishing ability to read close stuff with his
left eye while he has 20/20 distance vision in his right eye. He's one
of the few people I know who entered their sixties throwing glasses
away!)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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In article ,
Stealth Pilot wrote:

voluntarily no one decides to stop flying unless they've had a scare.

Makes sense... In my case the scare came from the wallet



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Jay -

A couple years back at Oshkosh there was a fellow selling a beautiful
Cessna 170. It was his dad's - then about 83, and getting too old to
fly. I asked him what went first - driving, or flying. He thought
quite a bit & finally noted that his dad' driving ability went first.

66 years with 27 years in my own 172M

Stealth Pilot wrote:
To combat this I've been doing daily weight training with my 14-year old son
for over 9 months. I've built muscle mass and stamina, and (for the first
time in 20 years) my back isn't on the verge of "going out" all the time.
weight training is actually a poor choice. the muscles being exercised
are too small and really all you are doing is exacerbating
hypertension.

That's not always the case. I've read studies that show that weight
training is also beneficial to cardio-vascular health, in addition to
aerobic excersise. I've weight trained, along with 30 minutes on a
stationary bike, three times a week, for the last 18 years, and my blood
pressure is just fine.

--- Jay


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