I’ve always wanted to learn how to fly, but have generally found some excuse not to get my pilots license (usually lack of funding, lack of time, or not wanting to learn to fly in LAX airspace). Since I’m newly single and need distractions, I decided in September that I was going to learn how to fly. Turns out that Bloomington has an airport and one of the FBOs, BMG Aviation even offers flight school. KBMG isn’t a huge airport, but it has a tower and can get busy around big IU events. So a good place to learn, without all the hell of LAX airspace (last time I looked at flying was when I was in LA – Santa Monica has it’s own tower, but then you get dumped into LAX airspace. No thanks.). Anyway, I had my first flight on Monday, Oct 17. All in all, not too bad. Takeoff was, not unexpectedly, not too bad. I could make some reasonable turns, but tended to overturn and/or lose altitude in turns. Both should be pretty easy to fix with practice. Landing was mostly my instructor, and was moving way too fast for me. I’m sure it will slow down after a couple of flights. Next flight is Thursday (Oct 27) – more details to follow…