I got to fly with Steven yesterday, yay!
For a second I thought it wasn’t going to happen. During preflight he saw that a pin was missing from the hinge on the pilot’s door of the plane he planned to fly. The door was loose and wouldn’t properly latch shut. Not safe to fly! (And that’s why preflight is so important.)
But another plane he sometimes flies was available, so he switched to that one and didn’t find anything wrong during preflight.
This was my first time flying in the Cessna 172 – when we flew to Iowa we took a 182, which has A LOT more room in the backseat. This was fine for just me though!
Steven was doing touch-and-gos during his lesson to work on his landings. So he’d land then immediately take off. I enjoyed seeing the area around the airport from above, and had fun picking out different landmarks.
However – that up and down messed my equilibrium up a bit and an hour was enough! I felt a bit light-headed and barfy. Maybe that’s because I was in the back and felt it a bit differently than the pilot.
Either way, it was a lot of fun and I’m excited to go again! I saw one tree starting to turn red and it made me think about how cool it would be to fly and see all the leaves changing colors during the fall. (Oh yeah, happy last day of summer!!!)
So cool you go to tag along! Not so cool about feeling light-headed and barfy. Eek.
Yes! I hope next time we do something else!
So fun! I would have gotten lightheaded by all the landings and takeoffs, too. Does it bother Steven at all?
It didn’t! And his instructor was like “try doing it for 10 hours a day.” LOL! (He is also 21 so I bet it affects him differently)
I don’t usually get motion sick, but this might have done me in, too! Sounds like a lot of fun, though – was it like a roller coaster when you would touch down then take off?
Yeah, it pretty much felt like 8 roller coaster rides in under an hour!