The weekend is just 2 days, 24 hours twice, but I could enjoy every moments, all of them would be memorable later.
Am I at a new milestone? I think so. Or I am just on the way to reach this milestone, as I did the half of my training until the exam B, when I'll be able to fly without a tutor. Just some weeks passed, as I started this season on 20th of April, but I spent all the weekends at the airport and now I am closer to reach my destination. I remember to my first steps: How to fly straightly? Or how can I turn to a certain direction? It is just the past...now my new problem is the landing, as I will finish I/4 soon, which means that I should be able to control everything from the take-off until the landing.
This Saturday I was a bit undetermined but on Sunday everything went well..what is more, the weather was fine all along.
This weekend I ran into some newness, the first and probably the most important was the new tutors. All of them have a different style, but I gained more experience and learnt new things too, it was useful. Flying just can be done with a great enthusiasm, you should have it on the brain. And I have :)
As I mentioned before, I got into new situations... I tried hang-gliding! Am I mad? Oh, I was a hothead, I was totally crazy...I was so excited when I was sitting in this strange machine and I grabbed my t-shirt desperately. What will happen? Will I stay alive? However, I can claim that it wasn't frightening, just a new feeling and the surroundings were nice... small group of trees, yellow fields of rape everywhere, straigth roads with small cars.
And then the next day I could taste of thermal columns, after the 5 minute long circles it was a marvellous treat. We took off without any hope, on that day other boys couldn't find so many thermal columns, but we were lucky, we rose with 2m/s, and then we reached 1100 m. What a beautiful view I have seen! I had the chance to try how to move in thermals which was totally new for me. Thank you for the pilot again, it was one of my best flights. :)
