As an Anniversary present, Nicole purchased a flight lesson for me at Fitchburg Regional Airport.
This was very exciting to me and because danger is my middle name it served as an opportunity to cross another item off of the bucket list. I can assure you that I bent over and kissed the ground upon my terrifying and turbulent descent to the ground.
Prior to this lesson, I had high hopes of taking flight lessons on a quest to receive my private pilots license. The plane (Cessna 172), weighed about 900 lbs and you could tell. It took about 3 seconds from leaving the runway to experience the sort of turbulence that can hang a plane in a tree. Very scary!!! Once we got to 3,000 feet above sea-level, I reluctantly took over the planes controls and practiced 45 degree bank turns over Route 2.
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