My Actifit Report Card: April 26 2019

Today was a rainy day so I didn’t get out for a pre-work walk this morning but I did manage just to make my daily 10K goal.
I thought I would share a recent panorama shot I did and talk about something I touched on in replies to some comments on my post yesterday about my fear of cable cars

Pano from Hudson Point park

In my Wednesday walk post last week I shared some shots from Hunters Point Park here

For this post I will only add one photo from Hunters Point, Looking across the East River at Manhattan

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This photo is about 27 Photos taken in RAW and merged together in Lightroom into the pano, and then edited.
It was a lovely morning when I visited the park, and the view across the water was beautiful, the sun has just risen and you can see it reflecting off some of the buildings.

If your ever across in Long Island City I would recommend a visit to this park its a nice park, with a good area for walking and cool views

Now you may be wondering how this shot could relate in anyway to my fear of cable cars?

Its not because this view in the far right if you look really close you may see the 59th Street bridge which is beside the Cable Car to Roosevelt Island, but because of the Contrails from aircraft in the sky over Manhattan.

In the reply to a couple of comments I said what’s weird is my Fear of cable cars but after my experiences with flying and close calls i have never had a fear of flying, so let me expand on that a little.

Three times I have been booked on Aircraft, 2 Commercial flights and one Helicopter flight on a mission, and due to things changing I had to either cancel the trip or make other plans and was not on those flights and the three flights crashed, killing all onboard.To tell the story of each of them would make this post into a novel so I will just touch on one of them to give some context.
I was booked with my Boss on a helicopter flight in a mission and about half an hour before the flight was scheduled to take off some VIPS booked on the flight ad we got dropped, so we instead jumped in our vehicle and started the drive to our destination, which is about a 3 and a half hour drive, we didn’t inform anyone in our office that we were driving, so there was a panic in the office when the reports of the helicopter crash started coming out, the first we knew about it was when we started receiving calls over the Radio System we had and wondered why suddenly people were asking if we were OK.

How did I deal with this close call, my boss was shocked when as soon as we heard how bad the crash was and that their was no survivors the first thing I did was to call a friend in the Movement Control Section on the radio and ask to be on the first Helicopter flight available once flights were cleared to go again, it didn’t matter to where I just felt I needed to get on a fight and not let this freak me out, So a few days later I was on a short Helicopter flight the first one in fact after the crash of the other Helicopter.

The other change I made after these three experiences including commercial flight is I never told family or friends which flight I was on after family and friends thought i was on a Swiss Air flight that crashed flying out of NY, but my flights were changed at the last minute to an Italian air flight when it happened and out of connection soI didn’t know about it till landing in Rome and turning my Phone back on to find i had so many missed calls and text messages from people. From then I never tell people which flight I am on, which isn't a problem these days since for health reasons I do not fly anymore.

But the weird thing is after these experiences I never have had a fear of flying like I did with cable cars, and I am not sure why, perhaps its becauseI actually saw the cable car crash in person and did not see the others.

I have been truly lucky i can say and fate has been good to me, and let finish off with the chorus of a song that is perhaps relevant by Doris Day