I'm glad and bummed I didn't fly today

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Well today was the first time I told my CFI I couldn't fly. Last night I stuffed myself with not the best quality Mexican food. I woke up and had a feeling I was not going to feel very good. I got on the road becuase my flight is at 9am and I live 45 minutes away. I feel bad for my parents because I told them to meet me so they could watch. I then had a huge urge to diarrhea so I pulled into a hotel and desecrated their toilet and still felt like I was going to throw up. I called my parents and told them I wasn't going to fly. I pulled into the flight school and told my CFI I didn't feel 100% to go fly by myself so we worked on the XC part of my ground training.

All in all I feel bittersweet becuase I may not get to fly for the next week but I'm glad I made a good judgement call.
 
Sounds like you made the right choice. If you're not 100%, don't go.
 
Gotta love that Mexican food.
 
Ah, yes... the dreaded "I" of IM SAFE

Don't forget to rehydrate. What you're experiencing can set you back a few quarts and make you feel worse.
 
Yes, if you feel you can't concentrate or that you'll have an in-flight "emergency," that's not a good time to fly.

It's also not a good time to drive.

Even bad Mexican food shouldn't do that to you. Call the local health department, as something is amiss.
 
MAKG1 said:
Yes, if you feel you can't concentrate or that you'll have an in-flight "emergency," that's not a good time to fly.

It's also not a good time to drive.

Even bad Mexican food shouldn't do that to you. Call the local health department, as something is amiss.
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I feet a lot better now but I'll see over the next couple of days before my next flight.
 
Could have been a good day for rudder lessons to teach how to avoid skids. Ba dum bum.
 
You may be a real pilot if you have,

A. barfed in your headset bag

B. Went poo in your headset bag.

C. Made a cruise speed landing trying to get to the fbo because you are "crowning".

D. Landed and immediately shut down to poo on the taxi way.

E. You tell you passengers to go before take off, and the flight is cut short because you are the one that needs to go.... :lol::lol::lol:
 
I've been on the forums for less than 24 hours and must admit, this is the best post I've read lol. Safe flying
 
So...did you think the CFII was going to be disappointed he didn't have to swim in the breezes wafting in the cabin? Of course he's happy with your decision! :goofy:

But more seriously...

AggieMike88 said:
Ah, yes... the dreaded "I" of IM SAFE

Don't forget to rehydrate. What you're experiencing can set you back a few quarts and make you feel worse.
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This.

My CFI nearly lost his medical permanently when he flew dehydrated with me and passed right out as we made a gentle turn climbing out of 8,000'. Me and a buddy were getting checked out in a Cherokee Six, buddy was flying his first flight in the type, I'm in the middle row having only one hour in type. It was brief, but his lolling head scared the crap out of me.

Okay, I had to bring it back to poop...
 
Great story. You made the right decision.

I can't remember who, but someone on this site told a "land before I poop" story that Charles Dickens would have plagiarized. Probably my favorite read since I've been here.
 
I had an instructor temporarily depart consciousness due to O2 deprivation once during mountain instruction. Poor guy.

I only noticed that he'd gotten strangely quiet in the last minute or so of a pass crossing which made me look over. He was half there and half gone.

We weren't at an altitude that required O2 yet, but close, and I didn't have the bottle on board.

Luckily he self-revived only about a minute later as I dove past the ridge line to lower the cabin altitude.

He's gone now or I wouldn't be saying this in public. RIP. Dude knew more about flying in mountainous terrain than I'll probably ever know.

Don't think he ever knew he passed out, either. If he did, neither of us mentioned it. No plans to go back up that high the rest of the day, and I was fully qualified as PIC to get us to an airport if he continued having problems, or home if he didn't, so I just left it alone.

If there had been any plans to continue at high altitude or if he had shown any signs of altitude sickness or incoherency at the lower altitude, we'd have had to have had a chat about it on the ground somewhere.

It's also when I decided we needed a pulseox on board. It stays in the glove compartment and I use it. On me, or on any passengers who seem not right.
 
denverpilot said:
I had an instructor temporarily depart consciousness due to O2 deprivation once during mountain instruction. Poor guy.

I only noticed that he'd gotten strangely quiet in the last minute or so of a pass crossing which made me look over. He was half there and half gone.

We weren't at an altitude that required O2 yet, but close, and I didn't have the bottle on board.

Luckily he self-revived only about a minute later as I dove past the ridge line to lower the cabin altitude.

He's gone now or I wouldn't be saying this in public. RIP. Dude knew more about flying in mountainous terrain than I'll probably ever know.

Don't think he ever knew he passed out, either. If he did, neither of us mentioned it. No plans to go back up that high the rest of the day, and I was fully qualified as PIC to get us to an airport if he continued having problems, or home if he didn't, so I just left it alone.

If there had been any plans to continue at high altitude or if he had shown any signs of altitude sickness or incoherency at the lower altitude, we'd have had to have had a chat about it on the ground somewhere.

It's also when I decided we needed a pulseox on board. It stays in the glove compartment and I use it. On me, or on any passengers who seem not right.
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Wow. Did he have COPD or something?
 
hahahaha laughed out loud at this
 
petrolero said:
Wow. Did he have COPD or something?
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Heart trouble, judging by previous and later events. I don't believe he had a current medical and wasn't instructing in any scenarios where he was a required crew member. He wasn't a spring chicken.
 
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