A taste of the future!

Here's a video posted by a MAF missionary showing the training pilots go through before they go into the mission field. All this training is done in Idaho. One day (in the next couple of years) I will be doing the same thing, flying in and out of airstrips in the mountains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XtRJJ_iFo

Here's also a quick update:
I had 2 lessons this week and they went quite well. We even practiced unusual attitudes! For clarification I am writing attitude and not altitude in this case. Attitude means the characteristic of the plane. Think of a person's attitude- bad attitude, good attitude, mean, sad, grouchy, joyful, etc. It's the characteristic of the person. In the same way the attitude is the characteristic of the plane: whether it is nose down (pointing downward), nose up (upward), turning, etc. So in practice, my instructor will make the plane be in a high nose attitude and the airspeed will be really slow (close to a stall configuration). What I have to do is 1) not look while he is setting it up) and then 2) when he tells me to look up I would push the nose down, level the wings, and add power to get my airspeed back. This is all done within 5-10 seconds. Another scenario, would be the plane is nose down and picking up a lot of speed and in a turn (similar to what happened last time I flew in the bad weather- see last post). To correct this, I would pull the power off/ close to it, pitch up (nose up), and level the wings. Once I got level again I would add the power back in to resume normal cruising speed.

Flying in the mountains in Lesotho!

I am getting close to taking my test and feel I am getting a better grasp on how the instruments work and what they mean. After watching the video I get a wonderful, excited, wanting to jump out of my seat and go into the mission field kind of feeling! 1) It reminds me of Lesotho, flying in between the mountains- I want to go back there asap! 2) The video is one of the final steps before going out into the mission field and God has given me a desire to go there! 3) It's pretty cool the kind of strips they are landing on! A couple weeks back I actually go to land on a small grass strip near Louisville and that was really cool! and 4) because it has the theme song of an awesome flying movie, Top Gun!

One of the air strips in Lesotho on a mountain

God surely has plans for me and I can't wait to get there, but I guess I just need to take it one day at a time because He puts things right where they need to go!

Fly with Christ!
Helen