KenAirCreation Tanarg, Northwing Apache, Apollo Monsoon, Air Creation Clipper, Part 103 home built, Rev, MTO Gyro, Cavalon
Boulder City NV (BVU), Eldorado Dry Lake, Jean Dry Lake, Ivanpah Dry lake, Santa Paula (SZP), Agua Dulce (L70), Eagle (A09), AVI, Searchlight (1L3), Kidwell (1L4), Triangle, Temple Bar (U30), Echo Bay (0L9), Rebels Roost, Avi Suquilla (P20 - Parker), Trail End Camp, Marble Canyon (L41), Monument Valley, Carson City (CXP), Paso Robles (PRB), Oceano (L52), Santa Maria (SMX), Santa Inez (IZA), Calvada Meadows, Shoshone (L61), Amargosa, Pahrump Dry Lake, Mesquite Dry Lake, Lake Havasu City (HII), Barstow (DAG), El Mirage, Flying J, Big Bear City (L35), Flabob (RIR), Trona (L72), Lone Pine (O26), Stovepipe Wells (L09), Furnace Creek (L06), Jean NV (0L7), Polson Mt (8S1), Ferndale MT (53U), Kalispell MT (S27), Hot Springs MT (S09), St George Utah (SGU), Hurricane Utah (1L8), Blythe CA (BLH), Ak-Chin AZ (A39), Casa Grande AZ (CGZ), Coolidge AZ (P08), Sky Ranch/Sandy Valley NV (3L2), Overton NV (Perkins Field - U08), Alamo NV (L92), Tiger Field NV (N58), Silver Springs NV (SPZ), Dayton Valley Airpark NV (A34), Gardnerville NV (MEV), South Lake Tahoe (KTVL), Hawthorne NV (HTH), Fallon NV (FLX), Farias Wheel (NV33), Bridgeport CA (Bryant O57), Alpine (M45), Dead Cow Dry Lake, Stage Coach Dry Lake.
First Flight
This was my first flight lesson in any aircraft of any kind. How I waited so long I’ll never know, as I had early aspirations of becoming a pilot. I found my way to weight shift trikes, and Leo in particular through a series of coincidence. I recall first seeing ultralight trikes being flown sometime during my high school years (25+ years ago) at the Albuquerque balloon festival. Time passed…. Then about a year ago my mom sent me an article on a new sport called Aerotrekking – involving cross country hops in the very same weight shift trikes. The article was eventually archived (by a natural sedimentation process on my desk) and forgotten. Then a year later I saw a flyer at the local Albertson’s bulletin board that just caught my eye – ultralight trike flight lessons provided by a local instructor right here in Boulder City! Follow this up on my fortune at luch from my favorite Thai restaurant “Focus on your long-term goal. Don’t hesitate to act now.” I made the call and scheduled a lesson soon after.
I was hooked from Day 1, the flight was just breath taking, not just from the new perspective that seeing a 2d world become 3 dimensional brings, but the feeling you get flying the front seat of a light sport trike is almost undescribable. A new freedom is born inside, and you have the experience that you can only imagine a soaring bird must feel. It reminds me of a quote from a favorite book...
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Comments
You know Ken, I like to smile when I think about how a fortune cookie changed your whole life...“Focus on your long-term goal. Don’t hesitate to act now.” and here you are flying :-))
The funny thing Joe is I still have the article... and that fortune!