On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:20:40 +0000, JOM
wrote:


I know a Airline pilot (retired) that actually got his medical (class
III) back after a pacemaker. His doctor said that with the pacemaker
his chance of having a heart attack was less than what is was for the
average pilot his have without one. He did spend a lot of money and
time on the issue though. You also might check out www.leftseat.com, I
don't know if my freind used them or not.

JOM

'Big John[_2_ Wrote:
;601450']On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:29:13 -0800 (PST), Tina

wrote:
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I know about a-fib all too well. Sorry to hear about it. RF ablation
is becoming pretty common, and it works pretty well. Big guns are at
Cleveland and Duke -- I know of cases where the pacemaker reports zero
a-fib for years after an effective ablation. Even meds like Tykosin
(spelling very questionable) seem to lose their effectiveness after a
while.

Usually all that pacing is to prevent the heart from beating too slow,
the meds tend to do that. Is one of the pacers doing more than just
pacing?

I always enjoyed jet fighters sucking up the gear so quickly, but we
like a lot of air under us when we do it. Our IO 360 can be leaned to
a bit more than 8 gph, so with almost 60 gallons aboard it has long
legs. When the Mooney guys fixed the windscreen and cowling it really
made that airplane go fast. I wonder how hard it would have been to
retrofit the Rangers and Executives.

I think given our skill levels if we were using that Joe bar to get
the gear up we'd continue to wait until we had a stabilized climb
instead of just after rotation. It's all theory now, we have a motor
instead of the joe bar to bring the gear up.

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Tina-

First had the manual cutting of nerves in upper chamber and would not
stay in sync.

Then had the RF procedure and it would stay in sync for a couple of
days and then fall out. Shock paddles several times and would reset
and still fell out in a day or two (

Doc said with my demand pacemaker I was getting what he called a "Lazy
Heart" so put in a full time pacemaker in both upper and lower
chambers and included a ICD (Like Chenny has). They couldn't get the
old pacemaker out so left in and set to only come on if new one quit.

Now with a unit in both shoulders I can't shoot my shot gun or rifle
(

Have thought about getting one of the new put puts which I could fly
since I have never been turned down for a medical, but have enough
flying that would only enjoy flying around the flag pole for a flight
or two.

I do have a friend who has a Caravan and would like some instrument
instruction which I could give since he would be PIC. Maybe this
summer. Still have my CFI.

Do miss the flying which I did from mid 30's to late '80's. (almost 60
years)

Are you going to get one of the Acclaim's 237 Ktas 1447 nm ??????????

Go fly and have fun )

Big John
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JOM

Tnx for the info.

However I also have the following:

Double cataract removal and result is poor at best. Had to stop flying
my radio controlled models as couldn't see them. After crashing
several I put my ego away and gave all the airplanes and radio's away
to my good flying buddy.

Also have (dead nerves in legs and feet) and can barely walk any
distance. Cause either Agent Orange or back injury when I ejected out
of a jet in 1968 (

As you can see I have got to the top of the hill (age wise) and now am
over the top and going down hill and picking up speed (

Fly safe and live long.

Big John