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Toby

Toby

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......I took my first-ever ride in a small plane. Still remember every detail!

6/10/03
 
....you couldn't even *spell* airobatics pylot and now you are one ;)
 
Look at all the great things that have happened over the last two years. Congrats and hope that you have many, many more years of flying.
 
woodstock said:
woohooo!!! and look how far you have come!!
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I am taking my girls to 6 Flags soon. Gonna see if I can actually go on a roller coaster for the first time in my life. :)
 
Toby. Wow, just two years? Its amazing what you've accomplished in that short time.
 
Toby,

Let me run a story by you to see if it resonates: Of late, I have started talking about life "BF" (before flying) and "AF" after flying. My life literally changed in those few seconds when the plane left the runway on my first lesson (when the CFI let me handle the control wheel). I can't think of a more dramatic change any other time of my life, including graduation, two weddings, losing my virginity, or anything else.

Does that sound like you, or am I truly pathologically obsessed?

Judy
 
judypilot said:
Toby,

Let me run a story by you to see if it resonates: Of late, I have started talking about life "BF" (before flying) and "AF" after flying. My life literally changed in those few seconds when the plane left the runway on my first lesson (when the CFI let me handle the control wheel). I can't think of a more dramatic change any other time of my life, including graduation, two weddings, losing my virginity, or anything else.

Does that sound like you, or am I truly pathologically obsessed?

Judy
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If you just defined pathologically obsessed then I am too.

Toby, I admire the hell out of you. You took life by the you-know-what and made it what you wanted it to be.
 
Carol said:
If you just defined pathologically obsessed then I am too.

Toby, I admire the hell out of you. You took life by the you-know-what and made it what you wanted it to be.
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Aha! So I'm not the only one!

And, Toby, I agree with Carol. Here's to all of us! :cheerswine:

Judy
 
Hi Toby,

I know just how you feel--I think you and I were on similar timetables--I took my very first ride just a month after you, and now I'm close to the instrument ticket.

Have a great weekend,
Matt
 
Toby, you have done some amazing things in the past two years. I know it hasn't always been easy for you, but you have forged ahead like a trooper. You can be proud of all your accomplishments in aviation, as well as other aspects of your life. :cheerswine:
 
Thank you -- to all of you who wrote here. What's great is that I can write a post of so few words and know that you're all going to get it completely! :)

And then at the opposite end of the spectrum there are people like my former mother-in-law, who called my daughter in California to ask her if there was a medication that could help me restore the chemical balance in my brain. (Daughter's field of study was neuroscience.)

Thanks again for your encouragement and the pats on the back, and I hope I can return it and be as helpful to you as you all are to me. I haven't posted much lately; work's been insane, for one thing, and ever since I decided to enter this competition, the flying's been a lot more difficult and a lot more frustrating. I mean, I'm sure I'll get it eventually, hopefully before August 26th, but let me tell you, it is HARD. I feel like I'm training for the Olympics, and I'm a leeeetle bit past the age for that.... ;)
 
judypilot said:
Toby,

Let me run a story by you to see if it resonates: Of late, I have started talking about life "BF" (before flying) and "AF" after flying. My life literally changed in those few seconds when the plane left the runway on my first lesson (when the CFI let me handle the control wheel). I can't think of a more dramatic change any other time of my life, including graduation, two weddings, losing my virginity, or anything else.

Does that sound like you, or am I truly pathologically obsessed?

Judy
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Judy,

OH, yes, that sounds like me. Life BF seems so pale, a half-life. I look at my driver's license photo and don't recognize myself.

I believe takeoff was the moment it all changed for me, too. Sometimes you just know that a big change has taken place in that instant. The birth of my children was on a par with this, but I can't think of anything else that comes within a thousand miles.

I also hope that nothing else eclipses it. I can't imagine what would. Can you?
 
Congratulations Toby!!! here's to another 2 years of fun, safe, flying, and another 2 after that, and so on!
 
Toby said:
......I took my first-ever ride in a small plane. Still remember every detail!

6/10/03
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WOW Toby, what you been able to accomplish is truly amazing! But best of all.. you are a heck of a nice person!!!

PS - bet you've learned that those fuel pumps DON"T have automatic shut off :cheerswine:

Gary
 
Toby said:
Judy,

OH, yes, that sounds like me. Life BF seems so pale, a half-life. I look at my driver's license photo and don't recognize myself.

I believe takeoff was the moment it all changed for me, too. Sometimes you just know that a big change has taken place in that instant. The birth of my children was on a par with this, but I can't think of anything else that comes within a thousand miles.

I also hope that nothing else eclipses it. I can't imagine what would. Can you?
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Other than a major illness that makes me stop flying, no. I didn't have kids, so I don't have that touchstone. I don't think I knew at the first take-off that my life would change so radically. I just knew it was the most incredible rush I'd ever felt. Really, it wasn't until recently (after 16 years of flying--I'm a bit slow on the uptake!) that I realized just how radically flying has changed my life. Of course, I'd already been leading a pretty interesting life, so maybe that's why it took so long, but the flying really was a quantum leap.

Judy
 
Toby said:
I am taking my girls to 6 Flags soon. Gonna see if I can actually go on a roller coaster for the first time in my life. :)
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Except for the "not being in control part" you'll probably find it kind of ho-hum after working so hard on aerobatics.

You have certainly come a long way in just two years. I think maybe life is wasted on the non-flyers.
 
Gary said:
WOW Toby, what you been able to accomplish is truly amazing! But best of all.. you are a heck of a nice person!!!

PS - bet you've learned that those fuel pumps DON"T have automatic shut off :cheerswine:

Gary
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Gary, that's sweet. :D

Ohhhh, yeah, that moment in Blairstown stands out in my mind. I'm sure glad your daughter was standing behind me, not on the other side of the wing!
 
lancefisher said:
Except for the "not being in control part" you'll probably find it kind of ho-hum after working so hard on aerobatics.

You have certainly come a long way in just two years. I think maybe life is wasted on the non-flyers.
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I agree, Lance.

It is going to be odd if those roller coasters are a letdown. I've spent decades building them up into terror machines! My daughter is setting up a schedule of roller coasters for me to try, from simplest to most elaborate. She is going to escort me around and explain all of them. It's pretty funny.

I don't think I'm doing the bungee jump, though. :hairraise:
 
judypilot said:
Ditto. There's adventuresome and there's stupid. You can't preflight a bungee cord.

Judy
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Do it off a bridge down here and you may come back bruised... and say the famous bungee-jumper words: "what's a pinanta?" :D
 
It is amazing how much stuff you have done, in two years. From 0 to aerobatic pilot! So cool.

It is hard to imagine your life now without aviation, isn't it? Neither my wife nor I can imagine what we would be without flying now. Our lives really did alter.

Jim G
 
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