Happy Friday everyone!
I have been here in Ridgeland, SC for a couple days. It is our second trip down here in three months. It has been a really busy summer off and on. We started out our summer coming to Ridgeland to learn how to be paramotor pilots but we came away with so much more than just learning how to paramotor. On our first trip down here I only got in 2 flights and 2 taxi practices. I learned to kite a wing and collected some awesome new family members, who I will cherish forever. I also became a part of a much larger family of pilots.
This time around I was able to get a couple more towing sessions in and this morning I got my third flight in. Since I am still a baby pilot I was being instructed so I was listening very closely to what I was being told to do I wasn't realizing I was doing things right. After I was up in the air I hear my instructor say what an awesome third take off I had just preformed but since I am piloting myself I could see what I had done so I smiled to myself at his words of encouragement and took in the scene unfolding in front of me. The wide-open sky in all its glory. I was one with the wind and using my very own wings like a bird.
To say it is surreal is such an understatement. It is a rush like I have never felt before doing this and it is a feeling I want to experience more. I followed the pattern and did a flyover (with my instructor's permission, of course) and flew the pattern again. I was under my own power and making my flight count. I took in the sights this time and looked around at the world below me as I passed by above it. I got a little too in a hurry to land and had to make a couple attempts to land before I actually came in and landed.
As they say in flying, takeoffs are optional, landings are required.
Happy Friday y'all, I hope your Friday is your kind of great as mine is for me!!! Keep your heads up and your hearts soring, may your feet never touch the ground.
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