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Life Below Blue Skies - enjoy the days of the life you live

Your time is valuable – depend on me to review options and recommend affordable premium choices to best meet your needs.  As world-famous oil field firefighter Red Adair cautioned wisely:  “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

Why We Need To Play

To relax and enjoy; to find a sense of freedom, answerable only to our self; to findpersonal satisfaction, growth, enrichment, and emotional fulfillment; to sharpenour mind and skills; to improve or maintain our physical conditioning. Offered in these various selections are hacks and more, to enhance your experiences, to give you ideas to share with others.

These topics will be “Under Construction” for many many months, with items chosen specifically for pilots to enjoy — when a topic heading “turns green,” click to see what has been added there.  Please feel free to offer YOUR suggestions for inclusion:  feedback@clearedfortakeoff.info.

FUN TO DO – 1

  1. Sports

  • Walking: A prevalent form of physical activity among adults.
  • Running/Jogging: Popular for fitness and recreation.
  • Cycling: Engaged in for both leisure and commuting.
  • Swimming: Enjoyed recreationally and for exercise.
  • Team Sports: Activities like basketball, soccer, and baseball.
  • Tennis and Pickleball: Great coordination and pursued joyfully for years.
  • Boxing and Other Martial Arts: Really?  Well, if you must …
  • Bodybuilding and Aerobics or Other Fitness Classes: No gym nearby? Your garage or videos.
  • Skating, Ice Skating, Skiing, Waterskiing: Enjoyable only when you stay in condition.
  • Bowling: Great way to meet and enjoy good friends often and easily.
  • Archery, Paintballing, and Shooting Sports: Valuable skills, great fun.
  • Darts: Practice at home and show them all up!
  • Pool and Billiards: Always an intellectual game.
 
  1. Outdoor Activities

  • Hiking: A favored outdoor pursuit.
  • Picnics and Cookouts: Avoid the common chemicals!
  • Fishing: A common leisure activity, allows you to practice your story-telling.
  • Camping: Popular among nature enthusiasts.
  • Hunting: Remember to wear hearing protection!
  • Wildlife Viewing: Engaging with nature through observation and photography.
  • Archeology: Discovering a vivid past.
  • Cycling, Mountain Biking, Motorcycling: Helmet for sure, and pay attention!
  • Racing Cars, Motorcycles, or Trucks: Really?
  • Boating: Includes kayaking, canoeing, sailing, jet skis,
  • Surfing: Includes snorkeling, scuba diving, and rafting.
  • Football, Soccer, Cricket, and Rugby: Really?
  • Gardening and Landscaping: Creating a beautiful and healthier life.
  • Beekeeping: And this is critical for our future!
  • Fostering Abandoned or Injured Animals: All they need is love.
  • Beach Bumming, Metal Detecting, and Flying Kites: Lots of surprises!
  • Building and Flying Drones and Remote Control Aircraft: Better than simulators?
  • Skydiving and such: Really?
 
  1. Travel

  • Domestic Travel, Field Trips, and RVing: Exploring within the country.
  • International Travel: Visiting foreign destinations.
  • Road Trips: Traveling by car for leisure.
  • Ocean and River Cruises: Vacationing on cruise ships.
  • Adventure Travel: Seeking thrilling experiences abroad.

 

FUN TO ENGAGE – 2

  1. The Arts

  • Attending Live Performances: Enjoying concerts, theater, and dance.
  • Visiting Museums and Galleries: Appreciating visual arts and history.
  • Participating in Community Arts: Engaging in local art projects.
  • Art Collecting: Acquiring artworks.
  • Art Classes: Learning various art forms.
 
  1. Creative Hobbies

  • Photography: Capturing images as a form of expression, mobile phones and more.
  • Videography: Life in motion, mobile phones and more.
  • Writing: Engaging in creative or journalistic endeavors – poetry or short stories or screenwriting – maybe even beginning to write your memoir?
  • Graphic Design and Digital Art: You’ve always want to try your hand?
  • Music: Learning and playing one or more instruments, even composing.
  • Singing in a Choir or Group or Karaoke: Certainly you’re better than “those others.”
  • Dancing: All kinds, always changing, always fun.
  • DIY Projects: Crafting and building personal projects.
 
  1. Crafts

  • Knitting/Crocheting/Quilting/Embroidery/Sewing: Creating textiles by hand.
  • Scrapbooking: Preserving memories creatively.
  • Woodworking or Wood Carving: Designing and crafting items from wood.
  • Jewelry Making: Designing and creating personal adornments.
  • Pottery or Ceramics: Shaping clay into functional or decorative items.
  • Leatherworking: Crafting useful items from leather.
  • Soap or Candle Making: Great gifts, very personal!
  • Metalworking or Sculpting or Glass Making: Challenges few undertake.
  • Model Railroading: Old enough to remember the hours you spent?
  • Computers and Other Electronics: Maybe your better ideas have value!
 
  1. Foods and Cooking

  • Cooking/Baking: Preparing meals and baked goods.
  • Canning and Pickling: Fun and valuable results!
  • Wine Tasting: Exploring various wines.
  • Food Festivals: Attending events centered around cuisine.
  • Culinary Classes: Learning cooking techniques.
  • Home Brewing: Making beer or other beverages at home.
  • Making Confections: Great gifts for everyone … but just a few at a time!

 

FUN TO CHALLENGE – 3

  1. Board and Card Games

  • Board Games: Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Mahjong, Go, Risk, many more.
  • Card Games: Engaging in games such as poker, bridge, and solitaire.
  • Role-Playing Games: Participating in games like Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Puzzles: Solving jigsaw and logic puzzles and Sodoku.
  • Trivia Games: Competing in knowledge-based and trivia games.
 
  1. Collecting Hobbies

  • Collecting Antiques: Acquiring vintage items.
  • Stamp or Coin Collecting: Gathering postage stamps or various currencies.
  • Art Collecting: Purchasing artworks.
  • Memorabilia Collecting: Collecting items of historical or personal interest, including autographs and photos, albums, CDs and DVDs, flowers, rocks and more.

 

FUN FOR “A BETTER ME” – 4

  1. Lifelong Learning

  • Online Courses: Enrolling in educational programs.
  • Self-study and Inquiry: Always rewarding.
  • Workshops/Seminars: Attending in-person learning sessions.
  • Book Clubs: Discussing literature with peers.
  • Language Learning: Studying new languages.
  • Lectures: Attending talks on various subjects.
 
  1. Personal Enrichment

  • Meditation: Practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques.
  • Yoga: Combining physical postures with mental focus.
  • Volunteering: Contributing time to community, school, youth, or church services.
  • Mentoring: Guiding others in personal or professional development.
  • Geneology: Digging through your past.
  • Hosting Friends, Playing with Children or Grandchildren: Yes!
 
  1. Mind and Spirituality

  • Meditation: Practicing mindfulness and relaxation techniques.
  • Yoga: Combining physical postures with mental focus.
  • Spiritual Retreats: Attending events focused on spiritual growth.
  • Religious Study: Engaging in theological education.
  • Mindfulness Practices: Incorporating awareness into daily life.

 

FUN, JUST PLAIN FUN – 5

  1. Tinkering

  • Electronics Repair: Fixing and modifying electronic devices.
  • Automotive Maintenance: Working on vehicle upkeep or restoration.
  • Home Improvement: Enhancing living spaces through DIY projects.
  • Model and Figurine Building: Assembling scale models.
  • Robotics: Creating and programming robots.
 
  1. Investing

  • Stock Market Investing: Trading stocks and securities.
  • Real Estate Investing: Buying and managing properties.
  • Cryptocurrency Trading: Engaging in digital currency markets.
  • Collectibles Investing: Purchasing items expected to appreciate.
  • Retirement Strategies and Planning:  When, where, why, with whom.
 
  1. And Would You Believe …

  • Podcasting and Livestreaming or Blogging: Share your unique perspectives.
  • Establishing a Website: Finally somewhere to put your best ideas.
  • Authoring Books: You’ve always wanted to?
  • Learning Magic or Puppetry or Balloon-Twisting or Standup Comedy: Whatever knocks your socks off.
  • Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency Skills: And you can teach others to enhance their survival as well.
 

 And, of course, the list goes on!

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WHO TRUST THIS CHIEF PILOT ?

You’ll likely find this boring … but I include these details only to reassure you that recommendations based on my extensive background, related experience, and specialized judgment are worthy of your attention.

Why should you trust this Pilot-in-Command?

All said and done, I do have very definite ideas about solving pilot problems …

I didn’t just read about neat ideas, I was chief medical officer for Texas International Airlines before they bought Continental, which ultimately became United Airlines.

I didn’t just read about neat ideas, I was a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA for 12 years – I never had an application for a waiver denied – I resigned to do more research on these advanced solutions and hacks I’m sharing with you today.

I didn’t just read about neat ideas, I’ve flown 1400 hours all around the county in my antique Ercoupes.

I didn’t just read about neat ideas, I was corporate medical consultant for 53 oil and heavy industry manufacturers in north Houston, for physicals, injuries, and return-to-work rehabilitation.

How’s this:  my ideas are better than just general practice prescribing …

I didn’t just read about innovative approaches, after almost 4 dozen years of clinical practice I’ve been recognized as a Marquis Who’s Who Top Doctor in Advanced Medicine.

I didn’t just follow other’s footsteps in a well-beaten trail – in my pioneering career of developing better ways, I am listed in over five dozen volumes of Who’sWho and I received the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award.

I’ve been more than just a dues-paying member – my professional colleagues have bestowed upon me the distinction of Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine … and also the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of International College of Integrative Medicine … and as more than just an aside, Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation.

I didn’t just dream up good ideas, I’ve produced over five dozen CDs and DVDs on various topics in integrative medicine (www.healthCHOICESnow.com) and I lectured at airshows for years on how to regain and maintain your medical.

I don’t just “talk” about my innovative practices, I’ve written hundreds of brochures, dozens of articles, and several books – and unlike what we’ve become used to, I have never needed to change a word – among them are …

The Yeast Syndrome – Bantam Books continuing bestseller (since 1986)

Sick and Tired – 2017 update to The Yeast Syndrome Do What You Want To Do – treating all joint pains without surgery

Chapters in bestselling books including with these authors …

Jack Canfield famous for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series,

Internationally acclaimed author/speaker Brian Tracy,

and None other than the iconic media host Larry King.

Ascending to the Flight Levels:  paramount recognition as the featured cover article in the preeminent journal, the Townsend Letter:  “Still Missing Diagnosis of the Yeast Syndrome?”

Do I really  have “new ideas” on many topics …

I didn’t just read about them, I’ve discovered, developed, and shared better solutions with doctors around the world – my original research on so-called “sleep apnea” since 1993 has solved many problems without CPAP.

I didn’t just hear continuing medical education lectures, I have served as program chairman or professor-in-chief for over 2 dozen professional programs and I have given dozens of invited lectures to doctors and patients around the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Taiwan.

I didn’t just have tunnel vision to rely only on my earlier training, I was awarded a Diplomate in Preventive Medicine for master’s level studies in nutritional medicine (Medical Research Institute, Florida Institute of Technology).

I didn’t just limit my intensive studies to a small pie-slice of human ailments, I served not only as president of the International College of Integrative Medicine but also as president of the International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine and …

I have gained internationally-recognized credentials in detoxification treatments (chelation therapy) to remove toxic heavy metals to help reverse degenerative diseases of heart/brain/other organs as well as in non-surgical treatments for sports/accidents/other injuries and all joint/neck/back pains.

I didn’t just read about Metabolic Syndrome/”Pre-diabetes” – the discoverer was a friend of mine since 1968 at Stanford. I didn’t just join in beating the drums for “INFLAMMATION,” I was one of the first to write about its critical role in causing all diseases – in 1993!

Others claim “the same” expertise in a number of areas – really?

As a National Merit and California State Scholar, I studied molecular biology at Stanford, graduating with a bachelor’s in biological sciences … and considerable experience in creative writing as well. During my pre-med studies, I assisted with research into making more effective vaccines and undertook graduate courses in immunology. Along the way, I trained as a medical laboratory technologist, receiving the highest certifications (A.S.C.P. and California State), and later I managed quality control for a Kaiser Hospital laboratory.

Half-a-dozen of my professors were Nobel Prize winners – another two dozen were members of the National Academy of Sciences – and I learned advanced literature search strategies at the National Library of Medicine, from the creator of PubMed search. My radiology training was under Harold G. Jacobsen, M. D., in the Bronx – one of the early giants in radiology.

While studying at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, I produced a series of 12 color videotapes on congenital heart disease; my training in blood disorders and cancer was at the National Institutes of Health. Post-graduate studies in general surgery (Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco) and urological surgery (kidneys and bladder at The University of Texas, Texas Medical Center, including the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) gave me surgical perspectives rarely seen in general medical practice.

To further hone my skills in research techniques, I served for 10 years on an FDA-authorized Institutional Review Board, approving applications for clinical studies … or not!

I didn’t just read about this distressing condition needlessly grounding pilots, I was one of the first to popularize understanding of “Auto-Brewery Syndrome” – “drunk without drinking” because gut microbes make alcohol then absorbed into your bloodstream – a totally controllable infection described in my 1986 book, The Yeast Syndrome!

I don’t just “boast a good line,” my career-long successes speak for themselves across so many usual and unusual conditions that steal your health, worsen your suffering, and finally take your life – no matter who claims “advanced” or whatever, there’s no substitute for experience and proven accomplishment.

I seem rather passionate about flying as well as medicine …

First of all, I found my medical training to be sadly lacking –  “fighting disease” rather than “restoring better health.”  So – I’ve spent a lifetime learning ways of promoting health, realizing that your body functions very much like an airplane, it does just exactly what it is supposed to do in the situation.

Second, I didn’t just watch planes flying overhead, I felt them in my bones:  my Dad was a B-36 command pilot, and the Air Force base often vibrated with engine run-ups for hours before launch.

Third, reading Wolfgang Langewiesche’s outstanding classic, Stick and Rudder, during my ground school studies, I was entranced by his description of the “safety airplane” – that was the non-spinnable Ercoupe just being marketed in 1940.  (Yes, the very first time I saw one, I bought it … on credit!)

Finally, I have enjoyed “basic flying” in my Ercoupes so much since 1977, I made it my mission to keep as many pilots flying safely as possible.  Serving as an Aviation Medical Examiner (Senior for 12 years), I never had an application for a SODA/”waiver” ever rejected, thanks to patient recoveries with my innovative integrative “medical”/health approaches that I now share with you!

Like what you see? – Want me to become your doctor?

Certainly, if you’re interested in a future of optimal health regardless of your current situation – you can visit in person near Houston or you can schedule a teleconsultation to start (and even continue) management.  Just

DIAL 1-800-FIX-PAIN

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Select whichever ones interest you: 

The most inspiring aviation poem ever written – details you never knew but will forever relish

Stuff for hours of hangar flying discussions, I’ll be adding materials to address these in coming months and years – Please feel free to send me your suggestions and hacks!

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