So, unless you watch my daily vlogs (stopjabbaingon) you will have no idea that once upon a time I had my PPL. Now this was nearly 7 years ago and I’ve literally not flown since passing as I simply couldn’t afford to.
It was always a dream of mine to be a commercial pilot but I let that dream pass me by many years ago, so when I could afford to learn I took the opportunity with both hands, I even did some of my hours over in Florida at Daytona Beach.
Since passing a lot has happened including meeting a new friend of mine Jeff. He also has a huge passion for flying and has his own sailplanes and a share in an aircraft.
So, we’ve spoken many times about going up together, but, even though it’s been fantastically sunny lately it’s also been quite windy too mean the plane was grounded.
Well, last Monday night I got the email from Jeff, if I was free the next morning we’d be heading up for a flight, but, yet again the wind was going to pick up so we only had a small window to go up.
I arrived at the airfield at 9am. After a brew, we got the plane out the hanger, did all the pre flight checks and got on board and away we went.
Jeff had control for the take off etc and then just chucked the flight into my hands. Gave me a course to fly and away we went. We flew over the White Horse, back down over Watership Down and then around Newbury (Donnington Castle, my home area) a fair bit before coming back down again.
I really can’t thank Jeff enough for the experience of going up flying again after all this time and I can’t wait to do it all, and next time I’ll buy us lunch wherever we land.
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