First flying lesson

Sunday 17 January 2010 - Filed under Uncategorized

My wife got me flying lessons for Christmas; I had my first flight today. Flew (more or less) one loop of the traffic pattern for Feilding aerodrome, with a few extra turns to get used to the controls.

Me with ZK-TOD, a Cessna 152, before doing the preflight checklist.

Taxiing out to the runway. It’s… interesting, driving with your feet.

Nice takeoff, eastward toward the ranges.
Can’t see much because of the cloud.

I definitely didn’t taxi onto the grass a bit here. Hmmn.

… And back to where we started.

Was awesome, I’m definitely hooked. Back again on Saturday for another lesson.

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