Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:01 pm
#1862020
gnudoc wrote:I haven't yet decided it's not ridiculous. I'm just far enough along that asking friendly strangers online about it doesn't seem too stupid. I've been looking at the websites of a couple of flying clubs that offer trial lessons. But before I even spent that money, I wanted to know if you wonderful people were going to laugh and tell me that the idea of learning in the west of Scotland was absurd.
Not only is it not ridiculous, it's clear that you're a natural.
For a newcomer here to have so comprehensively mastered the delights of the [quote] system, proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
On the subject of whims, my first flying lesson happened as follows (anecdote warning...!)
I went to Scotland on holiday with my (now ex) wife, who was a keen Scottish Country Dancer, although that wasn't the only reason we split up. The plan was for her to do a week's summer school, and then the following week we'd go walking in the Cairngorms. While she was jumping over swords, or whatever they do, I was going to learn to windsurf.
Except that when I turned up at the windsurfing centre there was no instructor available. I'd seen a sign to Leuchars airfield, which gave me the idea of finding a flying school. At the CAB in St Andrews, I discovered that Dundee was nearby.
So I phoned up, and yes they had an instructor available for a trial lesson. He turned out to be an RAF phantom pilot, and I had 5 lessons that week. The bug bit as the wheels came off the ground. Even the spin I asked him to show me on the final day, when we had a 150 Aerobat, didn't put me off, even though I got quite disoriented and nauseous.
How I subsequently found an instructor back home, that charged £55 per hour dual, at a time when Cabair was already charging well over £100, is another story.
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