Flying and More Flying

Well, I was half a page into this entry, got up to get something, came back and it was gone. Vanished. No damn idea what happened. One day I'll learn never to get significantly into something without always saving--no exceptions. Well, that sapped much of my enthusiasm for it. I was relating that at last report, I was to be headed out with the chief pilot/instructor to get cleared to venture out on my own, farther than the local traffic pattern. Mission accomplished. It was tough, though. Len is an old-time, very experienced pilot (type rating in all business jets from Lear to Gulfstream, many hours in all sorts of old biplanes, and even used to fly a Ford Tri-Motor). The task was to put the Citabria is every sort of bizarre attitude and have me recover. We're talking skating the edge of aerobatic maneuvers. From time-to-time, he'd say, "well, I could have you do [blank] too, but that would require us to be wearing parachutes." These maneuvers came over and over, in quick succession. 60 deg. pitch ups and downs, 90 deg. banks, sometimes with the lower wing stalled, and sometimes in a severe pitch up with the upper...


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