![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I went flying in a light aircraft for the first time today! I was kindly offered a trip by a fellow bass in LSM choir who is an amateur pilot, so off I went to Cambridge airport.
Now when I fly I like it to be in a big aircraft with lots of crew and preferably lots of free gin and tonic, so I was not reassured when this turned out to be more like an airborne mini.
It was all very exciting once we were up in the air (even if it was pretty windy). Cambridge looks really small from 2000 feet, really small in all that vast fenland (apart from King's chapel, which strangely looked bigger from above). Its quite scary to think that where I spend most of my life can seem so insignificant...
And the fens look very, very flat from up there, this sounds stupid I know but you really can't see a hill for 50 miles of more. God I miss mountains.
I also got to fly the plane! OK so were were going in a straight line due north so all I really had to do was nothing at all, but hey, I flew a plane! *bounce*
Now when I fly I like it to be in a big aircraft with lots of crew and preferably lots of free gin and tonic, so I was not reassured when this turned out to be more like an airborne mini.
It was all very exciting once we were up in the air (even if it was pretty windy). Cambridge looks really small from 2000 feet, really small in all that vast fenland (apart from King's chapel, which strangely looked bigger from above). Its quite scary to think that where I spend most of my life can seem so insignificant...
And the fens look very, very flat from up there, this sounds stupid I know but you really can't see a hill for 50 miles of more. God I miss mountains.
I also got to fly the plane! OK so were were going in a straight line due north so all I really had to do was nothing at all, but hey, I flew a plane! *bounce*
