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One more thing. I take nothing. The mainstream belief is the if you are suffering from something or other, TAKE something or other. I take no aspirin, no OTC drugs, no prescription drugs, no vitamins, no memory herbs, no muscle milk or any other thing that is not food. I don’t need them. You can get off the dependence of those “cures“ too. Sure, you may need aspirin to kill a head ache but if you stop “feeding” the head ache you will not need an aspirin.
Important note: If you are dependent on a drug for some reason I am not advocating that you quit it cold. You must clean up your blood first then experiment with removing the drug from your diet. Don’t think for one nanosecond that you can gain any benefit from “cutting back” on sweets. When you are over dosed with 36 teaspoons of sugar (RCs) a day and you “cut back” to 18 teaspoons of sugar (RCs) a day then you have not accomplished anything and none of this will work for you. Get rid of ALL sweets until your liver begins to function properly. This information will save or prolong your life. No, I take that back. This information, if acted upon, will prolong your life in better health. Do you want your blood pressure to be normal? Then do what I say. Do you want to pass your flight physical? Then do what I say. GET THE SWEETS OUT OF YOUR DIET. Not just a few, ALL OF THEM!!! If you do what I say then you too can fly at 18,000’ altitude without the need for supplemental oxygen. I sat in the altitude chamber at Beale AFB with two airline pilots and about 12 members of the California State University, San Jose flight team. Also in there with us were two military guys, wearing their oxygen masks, to watch over us in case we passed out. We first went on oxygen then the sergeant pumped us up to 18,000’.
I related this story to AOPA because via them a lot of my fellow pilots could greatly benefit by the knowledge that I have presented above. AOPA ignored me so I reckon they think I am a liar and make up stories for self aggrandizement.
A while ago AOPA asked for first person experiences from members. I think they were looking for stories to publish in their “Never Again” column in the Pilot magazine. I sent them the following story: I was moving a new C-172 from Truckee-Tahoe (TRK) airport over lake Tahoe to Minden -Tahoe (MEV) airport. There was a storm moving in from the SW. A great big lenticular cloud was above me as I flew east, at about 9000’ msl, over the lake and was attempting to let down over highway 50. So, after I passed over the east side of the lake I throttled back for the descent. Visibility was good and I could see the airport from where I was. The air was smooth and I was relaxing thinking I was descending. But when I glanced at the ROC it was pegged at 2000 fpm UP! I realized this was not quite right so I did a 180 and returned to over the lake and let down to about 7500’ and planned to exit over Spooners Summit Pass, which is 7146’. Apparently the wave action was increasing because as I exited the lake area I was again caught up in the updraft and this time I could not get out of it. I turned around, pulled power back to idle, put the plane in a dive, up to maneuvering speed, but to no avail. I kept going up at over 2000 fpm. I tried to stall and spin it but it would not stall. By this time I had passed through 15000’. I was concerned. I had recently read an article about seeking advise from the “senior local pilot” if you were having a problem with local weather. So, I called Carson City Unicom and asked for advise. By this time I saw 18000’ go by on the altimeter. After we exchanged a few words the guy at Carson told me that I was in a mountain wave and to fly 030 and I’d run out of it. (the wind was from about 210) I did as told. By now my mouth was dry, couldn’t speak and I was looking at my fingernails for the telltale blue as I passed through 22,000’. I figured this was the end of it all for me. But right at that time a powerful down draft rotor hit the plane so hard that I knew the wings had broken off, two loud bangs and sever negative G’s. Sounded like a gun being fired close by. Suitcases came flying out of the back and hit me and the instrument panel. The ride got smooth again as I wrestled the suitcases away from the co-pilot wheel and back to the rear out of the way. The ROC moved from it’s pegged position of 2000 fpm UP to a new pegged position of 2000 fpm DOWN. As I lost altitude I began to feel a little more like normal, my mouth lost it’s dryness, I could talk again. I felt like I had been reborn or something like that. I looked out the side window and below me was the Minden airport. So, I landed without further incident.
I reckon AOPA, like many others, figured that no one could survive 22000’ without Ox and live to tell about it. If AOPA would put this in their magazine a lot of fellow pilots could benefit greatly from my own experimentation with diet and flight. A lot more pilot could see it if they published it as compared to seeing it on my website. Since 1997 I have flow at least 75 round trips between Whiteman airport (WHP) near Burbank, CA., and Fallon, NV (FLX) California City (L71). At lease 40 or 50 of them were direct flights which takes you over the Sierra Nevada mountain, the long way. I have found that flying at 16,000’ to 18,000’ is the best way to go, especially in the winter months. My last trip was from Lancaster, CA., (WJF) to Fallon (FLX). I called flight service to get the WX info. “A storm was moving in from the NW., etc. The winds at 12,000’ were from 270 @ 55 kts“. Maybe it was 65 kts, I don’t remember. “Moderate to severe turbulence below 18,000’, etc.” I climbed to 13,500’ over the mountains toward Bakersfield, CA. (BFL). Smooth ride. I let down to about 6000’ and flew the western slopes of the mountains up to Fresno, CA. (FCH), very light turbulence. From there I climbed up to about 14,000’ and flew direct GPS to Fallon, NV. At about 35 DME north of Fresno I called Oakland flight service and gave them a pilot report. I told them that I was at 14,000’, it was minus 20 deg C and a smooth ride and had a 50 kt headwind component. The poor guy sounded like he didn’t believe me because the winds over the Sierras were 55 (or 65) kts and they were forecasting moderate to severe turbulence below 18,000’. On many of my flights over the Sierras I have found that as long as you are about 2000’ above the highest peaks, in winter months, you will find it smooth. There is virtually always some mild wave action that will move you a thousand feet or so up and down but that’s about it. HOWEVER, do not try this if there are lenticular clouds visible anywhere. That is when you fly down over the sage brush at about 15’ agl or should I say 15’ asb (above sage brush). In the summer months if they are forecasting winds over the mountains above 20 kts you will have some bumpy rides. But one nice thing about flying in the teens flight levels is that you will never be threatened by other traffic. One last story. A few years ago a Dr. Blue (I think that was his name) wrote an article in one of the journals about Hypoxia. He told the reader that hypoxia is a much greater thread that you know. He said to prove it, “At night put on your oxygen mask, turn on the gas, takeoff and climb up to 8,500’, take off your oxygen mask and watch your vision start to dim almost immediately.” So, I decided to prove him right or wrong as far as I am concerned. One night about 2100 hours (9pm) I donned my oxygen mask and took off from California City (L71) and headed for Fallon (FLX). At night I always climb to 2000’ above the mountains that I plan to fly over. I headed up Owens Valley toward Bishop, CA. (BIH) I climbed to 14,700”. It was a moonless night. I could see the faint outline of the mountainous horizon by starlight. I leveled off, set the plane on autopilot and removed the oxygen mask. I lost absolutely no vision. I could see the mountainous horizon exactly as I did while on oxygen. I wrote to Dr. Blue and told him this story. He wrote back, “Thanks for the information”. Summary: Because I have been sugar free for the last 40 years I am able to do these things. As the saying goes “I have been there and done that”. But I can’t seem to wake any one up from their sugar induced sleep. I was hoping AOPA would relay the valuable information to the pilot community but I reckon they consider me to be a liar and one who likes to make up stories. I’ve challenged AOPA to send someone out here, fly with me and see if I’m a liar or not. They have ignored me as usual. Now, AOPA has started a new thing about help they can offer to pilots that are about to loose their medical. I’ve told them how to prevent the things that cause them to loose their medical instead of ingesting various poisons (medications) in an effort to prolong the inevitable. But again they ignore this, “old fart liar who likes to make up stories”. I can’t seem to awake anyone from their sugared sleep. Another story. I am 81 years old now. On a recent round trip of a little over 2 hours each way I flew at 14,500' going and on the return trip I climbed to 17,500' and remained there for just over 30 minutes. To check myself for the effects of Hypoxia I recited my favorite tongue twister which goes like this, "Peter piper picked a peck of pickle peppers, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers then where is the peck of pickle peppers Peter Piper picked?" Then to add a little more challenge I recited the following: "If Peter Piper couldn't find a peck of pickle peppers to pick, then Peter Piper would have to find a peck of pickle cucumbers to pick, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle cucumbers then where is the peck of pickle cucumbers the Peter Piper picked?" I also did that in "fast forward", that is, about twice as fast as I normally speak. Withoud supplemental oxygen the entire trip. I had no loss of mental alertness or physical coordination and I didn't have a head ache. You, my fellow pilots, can do the same IF you achieve sugar free blood. Anyone want to prove me a liar? Come, fly with me. I'll give you the Ox bottle.
SOME ADDITIONAL BLESSINGS OF BEING SUGAR FREEYOU A SMOKER? YOU WANT TO QUIT? YOU CAN’T QUIT? I’ll tell you how to quit.
Leave your cigarettes at home, go to your tobacco store and buy some "rolling" tobacco. Old North State or Bull Durham or Golden Grain or one of those tobaccos that is so called "dry". Roll you own and smoke them for just one day. (Maybe they don’t make that kind of tobacco any more, I don’t know). I’ll bet you can’t do so because you are not getting that sugar fix via your lungs. You will find that those dry tobaccos can not satisfy your addiction to cigarettes, sugar that is. I’ve been there and done that. YOUR TASTE BUDS. You are worried that foods without sugars will not taste good?
YOU PIG OUT ON FOODS? After you are clean from the sugar addiction you will not eat as much food as before. Actually you will do quite well on abut 1/3 the amount of food you used to consume. I have a medium size potato made into hash browns cooked in olive oil, about 3 to 4 ounces of meat (beef) and perhaps a small tomato for my average breakfast. I don’t get hungry until mid to late afternoon. Even then I don’t need extra food to make up for it. If I am going to move a cubic yard of sand with a shovel then I will need a little more meat. I buy the best of foods. They are a little more expensive but since I don’t eat as much as the average person then the cost is about the same as buying lots of junk food. I’ve been there and done that. BREATHING As you inhale air into your lungs, your lungs converts oxygen gas into solution so that your body can use it. This oxygen is now picked up by your blood and is delivered to all the organs and probably every single cell that makes up your body. I don’t know how the MediCats would describe it but I think the oxygen is used as some kind of fuel that is required by you body machinery to absorb the energy it gets from nutrients you get from solid foods thus keeping all your organs working. So, if your blood is saturated (polluted) with sugars then this process is greatly impeded. That is why you have a low altitude tolerance. And since your blood is also the carrier of nutrients, picked up from your digestive system, that process is greatly impeded also. The net results is that you are virtually always hungry and you have a low altitude tolerance. Isn’t that self evident? The same diet of sugars that causes pilots to have poor altitude tolerance also affects SCUBA divers. I have no medical proof of this, just some personal experience. I have a little retreat in Baja California, Mexico. On more than one occasion I have SCUBA dived to a depth of 80 feet in the morning and then get into my airplane and fly up to as high as 10,000’. I’ve never had any symptoms of the bends. (Nitrogen narcosis). I’ve been there and done that. Clearly then if my blood is free of the sugars then the process that the lungs perform of converting gas (oxygen) into solution for normal breathing, also is efficient in converting solution (nitrogen that accumulated in your blood while diving) back into gas for discharge via the lungs. Isn’t this self evident? You can enjoy these blessings too, if you really want to. OBSERVATION Clearly we are going to die some time. If we are in good health in our old age then we most likely will die in our sleep. If we are not going to die from a heart attack at some unknown time then we are not risking the lives of our passengers while flying. That way we will not take someone else’s life with us when we keel over. Isn’t that clearly obvious? Makes sense to me.
Some reference books you may find interesting. Sugar Blues by William Dufty. Lick The Sugar Habit by Dr. Nancy Appleton. Body Mind and Sugar by Dr. Carlton Fredericks and Dr. ? I don’t remember. [Fredericks did not co-author that book, I did this to see if anyone would catch it. I reckon not] |
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