This post has been procrastinated for several weeks, and so it is guaranteed to be overlong — just a warning. To me, even the very idea of what I’m writing is staggering: I’m learning to fly! Let me provide a spoiler and say that I’ve currently logged 5.7 hours of lessons, but I’m going to start from the beginning, and will then try to stay up-to-date.

I’ve had an obsession with flight for as long as I can remember — as a kid, I wore out the tape in the space camp promotional VHS tape, flew flight simulators on every computer I owned, and loved trips to the Air and Space Museum. I explored flight training when I was nearing graduation from high school, but I ended up taking a different direction.
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