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[nibot]

On my to-do list: Fly an airplane upside-down.

To this end, I just scheduled an aerobatic lesson at this place in Santa Paula CA for Wednesday afternoon--hopefully the weather will cooperate!

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[vortexshedding.livejournal.com]

Just reading that makes me nauseous. :)

[browascension.livejournal.com]

How many such lessons do you suppose it will take for you to cross that off your list?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to do it in the first lesson, under the guidance of an instructor of course.

A series of lessons would start more slowly, with learning to taxi and take-off and land in the tailwheel airplane, learning to put the airplane into and recover from spins, getting the high-performance aircraft endorsement.

But since I will have just one lesson (for now!) I'm intending to do a half-lesson, half-demo flight, more with a goal of getting a taste and an experience than learning what I would need to know to fly aerobatics on my own. (Motor-plane flight lessons are much cheaper and easier to find in the U.S. than in Germany.)