chocks away 15-07-2010
i have been profoundly frightened of flying for a long time (about which i'm writing elsewhere at greater length). it's given me many undeserved greens points but it's stopped me seeing places and people i really must see before i die. i also hate the idea of having my life restricted by fear. If i'm not going to fly i want it to be a choice not a relief. to which end i've been grabbing the bull by the horns over the last year, with a lot of help from carol, tim, peter and others at aviatours and pilot flight training in oxford. unseen to my right is my instructor, john, and through the windscreen you can just about see the runway at kidlington airport. it was almost fun...