Giving this some consideration.
£2.7k's worth of consideration.
I'm only here once, and I've nobody to leave the dosh to.
What was it like, Trekker12?
Genuinely the most amazing experience of my life. It’s worth every penny, 2.7k is a lot of money but words don’t really describe it. Even 2 months later I still smile. I’ve flown light aircraft before of various types and nothing matches it.
I had Steve Jones as a pilot he’s a red bull air racer and one of the finest pilots we currently have in this country. A really nice bloke and everything was so calm and measured. He started up and taxied us to the runway. There’s nowhere to put your feet except following him on the rudder pedals which are connected to his, we had a nasty cross wind and he straightlined the runway and we were airborne before you knew it.
He made a few turns and took us away from the airport. Then he had me take the stick and follow through for a bit before he said ‘you have control’. And that was it I was flying a ww2 Spitfire all by myself. It’s incredibly smooth and responsive I pulled a couple of fairly tight turns but nothing like a real fighter pilot would have done.
His next comment was ‘it wouldn’t be a Spitfire if we didn’t do a victory roll would it’? To which I agreed and he took back control, rolled left, rolled right and as I seemed to be enjoying myself he pulled her up into a loop at 280mph.
Do it, really really do it. You don’t need n+1
