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21/10/2019

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​On the 28th of September Cdt Dunlop, Cdt MacLeod, Cdt Grieve, Cdt Tur, Cdt Graham, Cdt Watson and Cdt Dey attended Air Experience Flying. The first thing that we did was watch three separate videos comprising of different safety clips detailing how to get out of the aircraft and how it use your parachute in the event of an emergency. After watching the videos which all together lasted roughly 20 minutes we then got taken out to a small building outside to put on our flying suits, helmet, parachute and gloves. After waiting for about 5 minutes We were taken out to the aircraft and got strapped in, the pilot was surprisingly friendly and asked me some basic questions about myself. After taxiing to the runway we took off and flew west of the runway, after climbing to about 1,500ft the pilot said “you have control” and I the took control of the aircraft after repeating back “I have control sir” we then climbed to 3,000ft and the pilot told me to level out the wings, after flying on for about 20 seconds the pilot asked me what sort of things I wanted to do and I asked him if we could do some aerobatics and told me yes then told me to “follow through” so I put my hands and feet on the controls lightly and followed through his controls as he gained speed then pulled back on the controls to do a loop. We did a few more maneuvers before heading back to the runway and taxiing back, overall I really enjoyed the experience and would like to try it again, it really gave me a sense of what you can achieve in the air cadets and I appreciated the chance to experience something like it.
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