AJ wrote:
. I wish you all the best for the little time that we all have left.
Thanks. Well, that lesson is quite well known. It however presumes that you have control over your time, which I have not… or not sufficiently.
One of my workmates saw this thread… so much for annonymity and reminded me that most of us worker bees with small children have the same problem. And that while it may look doom and gloom, it actually is just the normal thing to experience being married with children and working 100%. Well, I suppose he’s right. I’ve seen lots of mates disappear from the face of the aviation world to re-emerge 15 years later. So maybe I just have to adjust to that and forget aviation for a while, only I will be in my 70ties then.
As for fear of dying… I don’t actually experience that at all for myself, in fact I could not care less. It’s for people around me that I am anxious to expose them to risks, particularly my kid. But I will also have to realize that I will have to let go of that otherwise it will be damaging to her. One of the frustrations is that now I understand why my mother used to drive me crazy with being overzealous herself… maybe I inherited that.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
I’ve seen lots of mates disappear from the face of the aviation world to re-emerge 15 years later.
Indeed! Witness my user name! Although it was 17 years in my case.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
It’s for people around me that I am anxious to expose them to risks, particularly my kid. But I will also have to realize that I will have to let go of that otherwise it will be damaging to her.
I guess it is better to settle for few memorable flights with kids than do a lot of it 
As for time, life gets busy, I am sure same bunch will be around when are back 
For most or all of the activities rated, your personal attitude will have a major influence. Doing an activity for enjoyment is much safer than doing it for “status”, i.e. aiming to be the fastest, most admired, etc. And doing them for thrills is more dangerous still.
Oh yea… @Maoraigh I would never do anything for thrills or status. Simply not me.
I simply enjoy flying to destinations. Local flying just like that has never interested me much, other than training. But right now I would need training to get my revalidation and then some flying on my own to get back into the routine. But right now, I don’t even have the time to start up my pc sim to do some stuff there…. well, at the moment, the dour season here has started anyhow. From experience, November is solid IMC here in the forecast, so no plans are possible. Maybe in the new year.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
Thanks. Well, that lesson is quite well known.
All too obviously it is NOT quite well known.
Maoraigh wrote:
Doing an activity for enjoyment is much safer than doing it for “status”, i.e. aiming to be the fastest, most admired, etc. And doing them for thrills is more dangerous still
Where exactly do you draw the line between enjoyment and thrill? If you are not aware of the risks, and don’t know how to handle them, that’s the danger IMO.
“Where exactly do you draw the line between enjoyment and thrill?”
With coastal cruising, (sail, power, and canoe), aqualung diving, and at present flying and off road walking, all my “scary” moments have come from unforeseen happenings.
If I’d been deliberately trying to go near to my perceived limits of my skill and equipment, the unforseen events might have been accidents.
