Last Friday I was finally able to complete my very first flight. It went very well, and wasn’t that bad. Occasionally, I felt a bit nauseous from the quick altitude changes, but other than that it was good.
Flying behind the controls of a small plane was an entirely new experience; almost like being in a magical Disney movie. It starts off feeling like you’re driving a car to the runway (yes I know ‘taxing’ is the correct term, but I’m using a metaphor here). Then suddenly you start speeding as fast as you can down the runway and seconds later your car begins to fly and everything below you starts getting smaller and smaller. Then when you are up in the air and you take over the controls, you realize you’re in a whole new world. I say you’re in a new world because unlike flying commercially you’re able to see the whole horizon, but more importantly, you’re in control.
So I have decided to pursue training. I seem to be able to handle flying without getting too sick. I’m not sure about spin training, but I guess the only way to find out if you can handle it is to do it. Training is pretty costly, but at present time I am probably in the best situation to be able to pay for it.
This early in the training it’s easy to get anxious about everything you need to know and learn. Will I be able to handle the radios while making carb ice isn’t forming, while doing the other what now seems like million other things? We’ll see how that feeling changes as training progresses.
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