Now with landing!

[rachelmanija]

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That's Beena, Dan's dog. Isn't she adorable? She's very frisky, and rides on the folded glider atop the cart like she's surfing.

I didn't get as much practice on the second lesson as I did on the first as winds eventually got unsafe for a beginner to fly in. But before that, there was much more wind, sometimes enough to lift the glider straight off the ground, and it was way easier to launch.

Zero totally failed launches (ie, none where I never got off the ground or immediately crashed)!

Several flights where I sort of managed a controlled landing! One in which I would have landed fine except I failed to get my feet quite under me and dropped to my knees!

Only one actual hard crash!

No injuries!

I didn't ever manage to correctly steer it but I did get closer. It's really hard when you only have a couple seconds in the air and you're trying to keep track of what feels like really a lot of things, though in fact it's a small number of things but all of them are critical and also YOU'RE FLYING!

But I did manage to acquire some noticeable improvement from the first lesson, so that feels pretty good.

ETA: Spoke too soon on no injuries. I scraped a knee and a shin, and bashed the hell out of my elbow. Icing it now.

Comments

[mildred_of_midgard]

YOU'RE FLYING!!!

[philomytha]

AWESOME

[sholio]

Yay!!!

[goss]

Go you! This looks so fun!

[sartorias]

Woo hoo! You look awesome with the glider fully deployed.

[sovay]

Now with landing!

Mazel tov!

[thomasyan]

Yay!

[sabotabby]

AHhh this looks like so much fun!

[princessofgeeks]

\o/

[wpadmirer]

The dog is adorable!

Congratulations on the lessons!

[minoanmiss]

Hooray for flying!
*sends healing vibes*

[landingtree]

Applause!

[pameladean]

You look incandescent with delight.

Beena is adorable indeed. She looks fairly happy too.

P.

[hyarrowen]

Lots and lots of things happening at once and all of them too much to process, by the sound of it! Hope the injuries (did they all happen at the same time too?) are settling down now.

[wateroverstone]

I think flying is worth a few bruises. The only way is up.

[cesy]

So cool!

[sheron]

Wheee!

[rachelmanija]

I was. I was laughing giddily when I made the almost-good landing.

[rachelmanija]

I think so. See all the rocks off to the side? That’s what you land on when you go off course. I went off course and crashed pretty hard on them.

My inner thigh is black and purple from getting pulled up hard by a harness strap.

[asakiyume]

Okay: gliding crash. Recover soon!

Still very exhilarating to read about!