Bruce,
Let me start by emphasizing once again - I am not trying to be a pain or incite you in any way, I am trying to learn. Thank you for your patience and continued discussion, as I feel like I'm finally getting somewhere.
I'm just trying to give you some background as to why I would like to see data. Data is my thing.
r=.89 IIRC which is about as good as it gets in biology.
Good to know - That's something I didn't know, and is the whole reason I'm still trying to have this conversation.
There you go again. It doesn't all and billing codes, nothing else. No a lot of variables for a multivariate regression. Like I said, incredible naieve. You think you can just browse a database......sigh. I say again.....NAIEVE.
Bruce, there is a TON of publicly available data on many things - You'd be surprised. It's not "incredibly naive" (spelling corrected) to think one could get their hands on some of it, because I do it all the time. And I don't see the need to make this personal. I'm not attacking you.
Not a bunch of cr_p, Kent.
Well, what DO they hook up to you in a sleep study then? I'm assuming at least pulse ox, ECG, EEG, and something to measure breathing.
Did you read the strings from any of the ones who got treatment? You should probalby be screend for that anyway....
I'm actually genuinely interested in the results... I've considered setting up a video camera (need to find a low-light one) and putting my pulse oximeter on overnight just to see.
I believe when I was at my heaviest, I might have had mild OSA. I snored, and I occasionally woke myself back up to full consciousness if I fell asleep on my back.
It's also been quite a while since you've seen me. Two summers ago, I lost 60 pounds. I've gained some of it back, but I'm still in much better shape than I was. It's made a noticeable difference - I do not snore any more, I do not have any of those "re-wakeup" incidents, etc. I also am not tired during the day (at least if I got a good 6+ hours of sleep), and don't ever feel like napping during the day or anything like that. That's why I believe that I no longer suffer from any sort of OSA.
No, I'm worried about the "hell no I'm just fine" attitude form an airman who repeatedly blows DA40 tires and no insight into why that happens, when it's pretty clear to us at my base....from examination of the tubes.
I do not repeatedly blow DA40 tires - The one I blew at your home base is the only DA40 tire I've ever blown. It was my fourth total airplane tire blown.
After you suggested that maybe this was due to me riding the brakes, I thought about it a lot and honestly considered it. I finally discounted it for two reasons:
1) I normally do not use brakes on landing at the home base because our shortest runway there is 5800 feet... And I'll easily roll 4000 feet on landing, which wouldn't happen if I was riding the brakes.
2) The nature of the incidents (below). If your "us at my home base" could provide some insight as to what you saw on the tube that you didn't tell me about, I'd be interested. But, be aware that there were dozens of other flights before my flight to Peoria that were flown by other pilots, so there may well have been pre-existing damage.
My four tire incidents:
1) C172 at MSN, right main, while I was a student pilot. CFI didn't even know what was wrong when I aborted the go, it'd been a good landing. I was told later that the shop said it was a defective inner tube. Both CFI and flight school manager/DPE complimented me on my handling of it.
2) C182 at MSN, left main. First landing on a brand new tire. It was incorrectly installed, and the shop at SBM that had just installed it actually paid for the shop at MSN to replace it - Do you think they'd have done that if they weren't at fault?
3) Citabria at IA40. This one was a tailwheel, so you can't blame it on my feet.
4) DA40 at 3MY. Already discussed.
At BMI 36, the odds are about 50-50 that you are NOT 'Just fine". LRPV- you do get what that is......
I Googled it and came up with "Long Range Patrol Vehicle." Clearly not what you're trying to say. So, what's LRPV?
Also, thanks for providing the odds at 36, that's one of the reasons I was interested in seeing more detailed data. As you say, the odds are 50-50 that I'm not "just fine" - But that also means that the odds are 50-50 that I *am* just fine. If I had any symptoms at all, I'd head in for a sleep study ASAP.
Is there any reason I should pay $$$$ for a sleep study when there is no other indication?
Also... And the main reason the policy itself concerns me - Isn't there a cheaper and easier way than a full sleep study to determine whether OSA is present in a particular person? I believe you or someone else mentioned something earlier in the thread somewhere. That's what we should be pushing for... Otherwise, we'll kill off GA entirely and this whole argument will be moot.
Look up my name in the index medicus. the referreed review of the Iowa Crohn's series took me two years, and I jumped through all those hoops to just get the records.
No self control is no self control, fat pilots are more prone to get home itis, and impulsive buzz jobs. Ground everyone over bmi 30. Better for them, better for GA.
