ScottPA
Pre-Flight
Has anyone made a thread regarding Diana's article in Sport Aviation? Maybe it was AOPA Flight Training. I am easily confused and get too many magazines. At any rate, thank you, Diana, you are a true inspiration.
Thank you Scott, that's sweet. And thank you for starting this thread. I think I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to make mention in the Flight Training magazine. There were a few comments in this thread about the article.Has anyone made a thread regarding Diana's article in Sport Aviation? Maybe it was AOPA Flight Training. I am easily confused and get too many magazines. At any rate, thank you, Diana, you are a true inspiration.
Thanks! I'm attaching a scanned version here (thanks again Brian! ) and if you are a member of AOPA, it can be read on-line here.Diana
Congrats on the article and I hope I get to read it soon.
You mention many helpful and inspiring people but you are too humble and you belong in that list as well. Thanks to reading your posts and corresponding via email I have finally finished my tailwheel transition and begun taking aerobatic lessons. It has been a long wait but well worth it and I hope to be competing in the future.
I'm excited for you that you are finally back to doing some aerobatics! How's it going? Didn't know you were thinking of competing...that's great! I hope you keep us posted here.
Congratulations Diana. Your the most visible woman pilot we have here on POA. You are a true inspiration to all pilots, men and woman. A great ambassador for general aviation.
Congratulations Diana. Your the most visible woman pilot we have here on POA. You are a true inspiration to all pilots, men and woman. A great ambassador for general aviation.
I started flying when I was 12 years old and have always wanted to fly aerobatics. I used to drive to different contests when I was in High School to watch. The contests were always much more interesting to me than airshows since there were less people and knowing the pilots were trying to really fly the maneuvers as well as they could.
I was extremely nervous prior to my aerobatic flight. I had wanted to do it for as long as I could remember but was so scared I would not handle it well. In fact, there was a part of me that was hoping I would not enjoy it. Once we took off, every ounce of fear or trepidation left and it felt natural, if that is possible. Now I long to do it. I want to progress, to understand and become proficient in every maneuver. Simply, I want to be a better pilot, to continually challenge myself in a safe and cautious manner.
Flying, itself, has always been hard to come buy due to the cost, especially aerobatics.
It is painfully slow going with money and now that the Winter is setting in but perhaps this will let me save some and fly a lot when the weather breaks.
Diana
Nice article, thanks for posting the link! Thanks, I have a thread over on student pilot and then I got lazy and forgot to post over here Its going well so far, we started off doing a bunch of different spins and I started to feel a little iffy and I was frustrated since we had been doing quite a few spins during my tailwheel transition with out any ill effects at all. I didn't want to quit flying so we just changed it up and did some aileron rolls, loops, and a couple hammerheads and then called it quits. I wasn't sure if I'd be interested in competition either but after reading about your experiences and talking with my instructor and other people at the school I'm flying at who are very involved in competitions I really want to give it a try. It just seems like a great way to get out and meet people and better my abilities. I figure its like when I ski; if I'm skiing alone I tend to relax and cruise down the mountain but when I'm with a friend or two we push each other to ski harder and better, so I hope flying a contest will eventually do the same thing and just help me improve over the years. Realistically competition flying is probably a long ways away for me but I am definitely interested and I plan on trying it out someday, hopefully sooner than later.