Today was my first fly as an Advanced Pilot. Strangely, though it didn’t feel any different, it’s nice to have that extra certificate in the binder though. I’m fortunate in that I was able to sweet talk my boss into paying for my course. So now that I’ve passed, I get my tuition reimbursed and I’m pretty sure I remember my sweet, supportive, beautiful wife saying that I could spend DOUBLE my tuition on a new drone. Right ? Yeah, I’m sure of it…..
This Sunday morning finds me on the dike near the Delta Heritage Air Park. It was a bit of a trek east on the dike to get outside of the control zone, but I didn’t feel like a walk was going to hurt me. Probably. I stepped off of the bike path, got unpacked, set up the controller and removed the gimble guard. Butterfingers Tim dropped the guard into the weeds. As I reach down to grab it, I see a hornets nest the size of a football embedded in the rocks. Ever the coward, I quietly packed up and stepped back onto the path, out of a potentially deadly situation. Not that I’m allergic , I was worried that running down the dike waving my arms and screaming like a little girl would give me a heart attack !!
In the end, I launched, I flew, I landed (caught by hand for the first time).
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